Well, sort of. The new storm occurred back in July. The National Hurricane Center ran a post-season analysis confirming the thought that the system became a warm-cored tropical storm. The storm formed about 240 miles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts on July 17 from the remains of a cold front that had pushed off the East Coast on July 13. At its strongest, the unnamed storm had sustained winds of 50 miles per hour. It quickly moved northeastward into much colder waters, which killed the storm 24 hours later.For an archive of the track of this year's tropical storms and hurricanes, click here.
-ADAM
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I imagine this being difficult to do back in the 30's. Maybe this ability to discover explains the increase in tropical system development, or at least the great number of storms last year.
Indeed difficult, nay impossible, to do back in the 30's. Though this does not attribute to the increase in tropical storms. Last year there was only one storm system that was added to the list after the hurricane season was over. Therefore, last season was already a record breaker prior to the one late addition.
This particular storm system wasn't named earlier this year, because at the time it was thought to be a borderline system that was headed out to sea. That meant no immediate danger. Since all data is archived now, they can go back and analyze the characteristics of almost any storm (big or little). -ADAM
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