Por lo que estoy leyendo en el foro de S2K, JULIA ha batido el récord que consiguió FRED el año pasado, como huracán más poderoso tan al sur y tan al este... A ver qué dice Jeff Masters al respecto hoy. Además, es la primera vez desde 1950 que hay dos categoría 4 al mismo tiempo en la cuenca del Atlántico Norte, con tan sólo otro precedente en 1926...

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/at1926.asp

his morning's unexpected intensification of Hurricane Julia into a Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds has set a new record--Julia is now the strongest hurricane on record so far east. When one considers that earlier this year, Hurricane Earl became the fourth strongest hurricane so far north, it appears that this year's record SSTs have significantly expanded the area over which major hurricanes can exist over the Atlantic. This morning is just the second time in recorded history that two simultaneous Category 4 or stronger storms have occurred in the Atlantic. The only other occurrence was on 06 UTC September 16, 1926, when the Great Miami Hurricane and Hurricane Four were both Category 4 storms for a six-hour period. The were also two years, 1999 and 1958, when we missed having two simultaneous Category 4 hurricanes by six hours.

Cita de: Gale en Septiembre 17, 2010, 14:18:40 pm

Me están comentando a través del facebook que en 2005 también hubo 3 huracanes simultáneos... Es raro que Jeff no se haya dado cuenta...

EDITO: en wikipedia, así es, aparecen los 3 como huracanes... Adjunto la línea de tiempo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season

Pues ya sabes, tú que te comunicas con él, dale un toque... y si corrige su entrada, que mencione el foro 

Me están comentando a través del facebook que en 2005 también hubo 3 huracanes simultáneos... Es raro que Jeff no se haya dado cuenta...

EDITO: en wikipedia, así es, aparecen los 3 como huracanes... Adjunto la línea de tiempo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season

The year 2005 came within six hours of having three hurricanes at the same time, but the official data base constructed after the season was over indicates that the three hurricanes did not exist simultaneously.

Tomas' formation location unprecedented this late in the season
Tomas' formation ties 2010 with 1995 and 1887 for 3rd place for most number of named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season. Only 2005 (28 named storms) and 1933 (21 named storms) were busier. Atlantic hurricane records go back to 1851, though there were likely many missed named storms prior to the beginning of satellite coverage in the mid-1960s.

The formation of a tropical storm so far south and east this late in the season is unprecedented in the historical record; no named storm has ever been present east of the Lesser Antilles (60°W) and south of 12°N latitude so late in the year. Hurricane Six of 1896 came close--it was also a tropical storm south of 12°N and east of 60°W on October 29, but nine hours earlier in the day. That storm recurved to the north and missed the Lesser Antilles. Tomas' track through the southern Lesser Antilles so late in the year is unprecedented. There have been only two other tropical storms that formed after October 15 south of 12°N and east of 60°W: Hurricane Jose, which was a tropical storm in that region on October 18, 1999, and Tropical Storm Nicolas, on October 16, 2003. Tomas most reminds me of Hurricane Joan of 1988, which was a tropical storm on October 14 near Tomas' current location, and later strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane that hit Nicaragua.

Another unusual aspect of Tomas' formation is that we now have two simultaneous named storms in the Atlantic Ocean on October 29. There have been only four hurricane seasons since 1851 that have had two simultaneous named storms later in the year. The record was set way back in 1887, when Hurricane Eighteen and Tropical Storm Nineteen were both active on December 8. There were three years that had simultaneous November named storms: 1932, 1961, and 2001.