Tropical Storm Gamma adds to record-breaking hurricane season
Dinah Voyles Pulver | Sarasota Herald-Tribune Hurricane season 2020 is already breaking records as we…

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Hurricane season 2020 is already breaking records as we enter peak season
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is on a record named-storm pace, and we’re just starting the peak of the season.
Tropical Storm Gamma formed Friday in the Caribbean Sea and became the 24th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.
In a season that has already been unusual for its activity, Gamma’s formation shattered a record set in the 2005 hurricane season.
In that season — the first in history to turn to Greek names as backup — the 24th named storm formed on Oct. 27, said Phil Klotzbach, a seasonal hurricane forecaster and meteorologist at Colorado State University. Gamma’s formation on Friday places it more than three weeks ahead of the old record.
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The system, encountering wind shear on Friday, changed little, the center’s forecasters said. However, environmental conditions still favor strengthening to a tropical storm.
An Air Force reconnaissance aircraft was scheduled to investigate the system Friday afternoon.
Gamma is not expected to threaten Florida.