(NEW YORK) -- The 2012 hurricane season, a time period that produced 19 named storms, including 10 hurricanes and one post-tropical cyclone called Sandy, officially comes to an end on Friday.
The National Oceanic and
(NEW YORK) -- The 2012 hurricane season, a time period that produced 19 named storms, including 10 hurricanes and one post-tropical cyclone called Sandy, officially comes to an end on Friday.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says 2012 was an above-average year for storms. The average annual number of named storms is 12, with six being the average yearly number of hurricanes. The hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
The past season marks the second consecutive year that the mid-Atlantic and Northeast suffered devastating impacts from a named storm: Sandy this year, and Hurricane Irene in 2011.
This year also included tropical storms Beryl and Debby in Florida and Hurricane Isaac in Louisiana.
Sandy was not officially a hurricane when it made landfall in New Jersey last month -- it is officially categorized as post-tropical Cyclone Sandy -- but it certainly delivered hurricane-level death and devastation.
New Jersey is asking the federal government for some $30 billion in aid to help rebuild, while New York state has petitioned Uncle Sam for $39 billion in rebuilding assistance.
Laura Furgione, acting director of NOAA’s National Weather Service, says this year proves that it’s “wrong