Hurricane Ida (courtesy NOAA/Wikipedia)
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended on November 30th with 21 named storms – the third busiest year ever.
While 2020 still holds the record for storms with 30, this year’s list of 21 names started rolling out in late May and was exhausted by early November.
Weather Network meteorologist Jessie Uppal says it was certainly busier than a typical year which has ten named storms.
“This year, in 2021, we saw 21 named storms so we overall doubled that average, seven of which were hurricanes – typically we see about five. We also picked up four major hurricanes.”
Eight storms struck parts of the U.S. coastline this year and several of them proved deadly.
“Hurricane Ida which was a Category 4 as well as Hurricane Sam – those two brought absolute devastation across the United States and also pushed heavy rain up the Eastern Seaboard. We did see impacts across Atlantic Canada.”
Ida delivered a deluge of rain along the Fundy coast and Prince Edward Island and strong winds in Cape Breton.
Hurricane Larry also caused extensive damage when it struck Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula in mid-September.
