This year's fast-forming hurricanes buck trend, puzzle meteoroloists
By Robert NolinThe Sun-Sentinel
Posted September 20 2005
This year, hurricanes just aren't acting like they used to.
The major storms are bucking traditional patterns by forming in the western, rather than eastern, Atlantic Ocean. Instead of taunting worried residents for days, they materialize, it seems, overnight.
The trend has baffled scientists and ratcheted up panic levels for South Floridians.
"It's crazy," said Robin Wagner, 45, of Hollywood. "They come so quick. With Katrina, before we knew it, it was on us."
Hurricane Katrina swept through Broward and Miami-Dade counties last month as a Category 1 storm -- a scant two days after developing in the Caribbean. Storms typically come to life in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean, often near Cape Verde, then pinwheel westward for several days, their ultimate course studied with dread speculation by those in its path.
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