Weather & Science
Hurricane Season Hasn’t Yet Begun, But It Already Tallied One Storm
- Reanalysis shows massive winter storm should have been named
- Eight of last nine years has now had pre-season storms
The storm formed off the northeastern coast of the US on Jan. 15.
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The National Hurricane Center added a new storm to the 2023 season — and it hasn’t even started yet.
If you can’t remember the tempest, don’t blame yourself. It was just announced Thursday, and the event in question happened in January. A reanalysis of a massive winter system rolling up the US East Coast shows that it qualified as a subtropical storm, which usually would have been given a name, the hurricane center said.