Hurricanes

Storm exhaustion arrives

At the beginning of the year, the storm gurus said they were more confident than usual that this hurricane season would be busier than usual. They didn’t know how right they would be.

Cristobal already a record storm

Cristobal was a storm for the record books as soon as it was named on Tuesday, June 2. That is the earliest an Atlantic or Gulf storm beginning with the letter C has formed since record-keeping began in 1851 (or that would have been a C-storm before we began naming them).