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Cayman remembers Hurricane Ivan, 21 years later
Two decades after the devastating storm, Cayman reflects on the destruction, resilience, and recovery that followed.
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Temperatures hot, but hurricanes not
As of 10 September – the climatological peak of the hurricane season – there were no active tropical storms or hurricanes in the entire Atlantic Basin. In addition, no tropical storms or hurricanes have entered the Caribbean Sea so far this year.
Explaining the reasons for the lack of cyclone activity for the year to date, Phil Klotzbach, from the Department of Atmospheric Science Colorado State University said that a combination of factors including a dry and stable tropical Atlantic and a pronounced trough in the western Atlantic increasing vertical wind shear have led to the relatively uneventful first half of the hurricane season.
