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Our "storm meister" is Senior Contributor Steve Faber, who came to study meteorology out of necessity, learning the skills out of an aversion to death and dismemberment -- his own! For years he was a private pilot and understanding weather was a basic survival skill....
September is the month often described as the height of "Cape Verde Season," and the 10th is the peak of hurricane season as a whole. This isn't simply an approximation: Statistically, over the past 100 years, a very clear pattern analyzing number of storms at any given day of the season, and plotting them on a graph, shows September 10 as the "busiest" day of the year. Take a look at that graph, as plotted by the National Hurricane Center:
Chart appears courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Our "storm meister" is Senior Contributor Steve Faber, who came to study meteorology out of necessity, learning the skills out of an aversion to death and dismemberment -- his own! For years he was a private pilot and understanding weather was a basic survival skill....
