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Jun 7Liked by Michael Lowry

June storms have had dramatic impact in Texas due to extreme rainfall. An unnamed storm in 1889, Alice, 1954, Amelia 1978, Allison 1989 and Allison, 2001 all produced over 25" of rain and caused major flooding.

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Absolutely - no one knows it better than you! I noticed Mike Brennan has been really hammering home the risk from heavy rain and flooding going into this hurricane season. His most recent analysis of direct TC deaths from 2013-2022 show what a real problem heavy rainfall and freshwater flooding continue to be. It's a good reminder for us in media.

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Correction - Amelia was a July formation.

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Once again thank you. We look forward to each of your emails!

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If the number of times a "hit" on a state is measured by where the storm makes landfall, then Florida has a built in advantage because it has three times the coastline as Texas. Conversely, Alabama has almost no coastline so it has the fewest hits. Steve in South Florida.

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> The last hurricane to form anywhere in the Atlantic in June was back in 2012

Not counting Bonnie in 2022, though it did not reach hurricane strength until July 3.

But tropical systems before July are not rare at all, by my count there have been 92 that formed before July since 1970 (54 years, so 1.5 per year on average). If we get to July 1 without anything at all in 2024, I think we have to say this is a very strange year.

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