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On May 30, 2012, the Florida State University for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (FSU COAPS) issued its annual Atlantic hurricane season forecast. The organization predicted 13 named storms, including 7 hurricanes, and an ACE index of 122.
In the United States, Hurricane Sandy affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin, with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York.
Collectively, cyclones in Florida during the time period resulted in more than $236 billion in damage and 615 deaths. Every year included at least one tropical cyclone affecting the state. During the 2004 season, more than one out of every five houses in the state received damage. [1]
2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The National Hurricane Center's Tropical Cyclone Reports contain comprehensive information on each tropical cyclone, including synoptic history, meteorological statistics, casualties and damages, and the post-analysis best track (six-hourly positions and intensities).
The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season was marked by above-average tropical cyclone activity with the formation of 19 tropical storms, of which 10 became hurricanes. Two of the hurricanes (Michael and Sandy) were category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
During the weekend of October 20-21, 2012, an area of disturbed weather just south of Hispaniola began to push to the west and strengthen. By Monday October 22, 2012, this area of convection eventually developed into Tropical Storm Sandy, becoming the 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Several aspects of the 2012 North Atlantic hurricane season were unique. Tropical Storm Beryl, which formed on May 25 th and made landfall near Jacksonville, Florida, on May 28 th, was only the third time on record that the second named storm of the year formed before June 1st (the official start of the hurricane season). Beryl was also the ...
