4 things seen in the tropics this past week

8/13/2018 (Permalink)

4 Interesting Things We Saw in the Tropics in the Past Week

At a Glance

1. Hector was a major hurricane in the northeastern Pacific longer than any other hurricane on record in that basin.
2. Tropical Storm Debby became the fourth named storm of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season.
3. Four named tropical cyclones were active at once in the eastern half of the Pacific Ocean.
4. Typhoon Shanshan scraped parts of mainland Japan.

Several interesting things caught our eye in the tropics in the past week, including Hurricane Hector's length of time as major hurricane in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Debby's formation in the Atlantic Ocean, an active eastern half of the Pacific Ocean and Typhoon Shanshan's scrape with Japan.

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-08-11-interesting-things-we-saw-in-the-tropics-early-august

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