AccuWeather experts say October has more storm development close to the U.S putting places like Florida at risk. Eleven major hurricanes have formed and made landfall in Florida in the month of October since records began in 1851.
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00:00 October has seen some strong
00:02 hurricanes in recent years.
00:03 Hurricane Delta hit the Louisiana
00:05 coast in 2020 and Michael devastated
00:07 Florida Panhandle in 2018.
00:09 Accuweather experts say October
00:11 brings more storm development
00:12 close to the US rather than in
00:15 the eastern Atlantic, putting
00:17 places like Florida at risk.
00:18 One of the main forming or breeding
00:21 grounds that you see in October
00:24 is the Northwest Caribbean.
00:25 And with that, with those dips in the
00:29 jet stream or troughs coming across
00:31 the central part of the country,
00:33 that takes all of the tropical
00:35 moisture and all of that steering
00:37 flow guides these systems in the
00:39 Florida so Florida is fair game.
00:40 Florida has seen the most major
00:42 hurricane impacts in October,
00:44 dating back to when records
00:45 have been kept in the 1800s.
00:47 11 major storms have formed and made
00:49 landfall in Florida in the month of
00:51 October. Sometimes are more vulnerable
00:53 in October than any other month,
00:55 just simply because they're so
00:57 close to the Caribbean and close
00:59 to the Western Atlantic.
01:00 Heading into this October,
01:02 our experts say water temperatures
01:03 and wind flow do have the potential
01:06 for more major storms to develop.
01:08 We are now going into a La Nina pattern.
01:11 The vertical wind shear in the
01:13 tropics tends to be less than what
01:16 we would have like in a El Nino
01:19 or a neutral type system season.
01:21 While it's getting cooler across
01:23 the United States and North America,
01:25 water temperatures are still very warm,
01:27 and that's why you can see tropical
01:30 storms and hurricanes right in the
01:32 late October early November that can
01:34 threaten the United States for
01:36 Accuweather. I'm Melissa Constanzer.