Ophelia Will Be the 10th Straight Atlantic Tropical Storm to Become a Hurricane
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Tropical Storm Ophelia won’t come anywhere near U.S. shores, but when it strengthens to a hurricane sometime Thursday, it will achieve another distinction.
Ophelia will be the 10th straight Atlantic tropical storm to become a hurricane, a milestone last reached in 1893, said Phil Klotzbach, a storm researcher at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. “I am not quite sure what to make of it,” Klotzbach said. “It is a ‘gee-whiz’ record.”