2014 Atlantic hurricane season

The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1 and ends on November 30. During this period, usually make the most hurricanes, since only at this time appropriate conditions exist, such as a warm ocean, moist air and little wind shear to allow the formation of tropical cyclones.

Storms in the Pacific Ocean are listed in the article Pacific hurricane season of 2014.

Season forecasts

Predictions about the activity of the coming hurricane season will be created each year by the hurricane experts Philip J. Klotzbach and William M. Gray and her staff at Colorado State University and separately by the meteorologists at the NOAA, and the consortium Tropical Storm Risk.

Klotz 's team defined the average number of storms per season on average (1950-2000) to 9.6 tropical storms, 5.9 hurricanes and 2.3 major hurricanes ( ie, those at least on the Saffir -Simpson Hurricane Scale are classified to category 3 ). A normal season, as it was defined by the NOAA, consists of 9-12 named storms, 5-7 of which reach hurricane strength and 1-3 major hurricanes.

Predictions before the season

On December 12, 2013 Tropical Storm Risk ( TSR ), announced a public consortium of experts on insurance, risk management and seasonal climate predictions at University College London, a medium-term forecast, which assumes a slightly above-average hurricane season for 2014. In the report, TSR noted that tropical cyclone activity could be close to the average for the years 1950-2013, with 14 ( ± 4 ) tropical storms, 6 ( ± 3) hurricanes and 3 ( ± 2) major hurricanes and a cumulative ACE Index of 106 were expected. About three months later, on March 24, 2014, Weather Services International (WSI ) published a forecast, which assumes a slightly below-average hurricane season. Thus, there would be 11 tropical storms, 5 hurricanes and 2 major hurricanes.

Course of the season

Storm names

The following names are assigned in this season. This list will be used again in 2020, subject to the names that may be replaced by the World Meteorological Organization in the spring of 2015. This list is identical to the list for the Atlantic hurricane season in 2008, only Gustav, Ike and Paloma were replaced by Gonzalo, Isaias and Paulette.

• Arthur (unused)
• Bertha (unused)
• Cristobal (unused)
• Dolly (unused)
• Edouard (unused)
• Fay (unused)
• Gonzalo (unused)

• Hanna (unused)
• Isaias (unused)
• Josephine (unused)
• Kyle (unused)
• Laura (unused)
• Marco ( unused)
• Nana (unused)

• Omar (unused)
• Paulette (unused)
• Rene (unused)
• Sally (unused)
• Teddy (unused)
• Vicky (unused)
• Wilfred (unused)