What is the Cape Verde Season? What does it have to do with the Hurricanes in the United States if Cape Verde is in Africa? Well the Cape Verde Hurricane Season as far as we are concerned in the United States is actually a season within a season, that is to say that The Cape Verde Hurricane season is part of the Atlantic Tropical Hurricane Season. The Cape Verde Season starts on, about or around August first each year and this is where strong hot air comes across the African Continent and heads West across the Atlantic Ocean and picks up precipitation and energy and moves toward the South American Continent and the Caribbean. During this time of the year about two-thirds of the storms head West North West and tend to go up along the Eastern Seaboard. Sometimes the cross into the Gulf of Mexico, sometimes the crash into the leeward islands of the Caribbean, some have been known to move along the Eastern Seaboard of Florida and then cross into the Gulf. We have seen some travel all the way up the Eastern Seaboard without hitting anything and then going back out into the Atlantic. Some of the worst Hurricanes have been during this Cape Verde Hurricane Season. Generally we can expect 6-8 Named Storms during the Cape Verde Season in the Middle of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. Please understand this is serious and some years it is very bad and other years not so bad. What will the Cape Verde Hurricane Season mean to the United States this year? Consider all this in 2006. |
