WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: Atlantic's First Named Storm Of 2007 Forms Early, 3 Weeks Before Season's Official Start: "Typically about one subtropical storm forms each year, but they often turn into tropical storms. That doesn't appear to be the case with Andrea, senior hurricane specialist Jack Beven said. It only has a small area of warmer water to draw energy from and is also facing dry winds.
He said it wasn't unusual for the storm to form in May, outside the hurricane season that starts June 1 and end Nov. 30.
'What we call the hurricane season is a totally manmade creation. Nature doesn't always pay attention to that,' Beven said.
Eighteen tropical storms and four hurricanes have been recorded in that month since 1851, and none of the hurricanes made landfall in the U.S. The earliest hurricane to strike the U.S. was Alma in northwest Florida on June 9, 1966."
Right. That's pretty common right there. Well... Here we go again.
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