17th Named Storm Of The Atlantic Season – Rebekah – Won’t Last Long

On Wednesday evening, the seventeenth named storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season formed in the North Atlantic. As of 11am Thursday, Subtropical Storm Rebekah was located about 480 miles WNW of the Azores and had max winds of 45 mph.

The storm isn’t much to look at, and it will be short lived as it moves over increasingly cooler waters and into an area of higher wind shear. It should steadily weaken and lose tropical characteristics before eventually dissipating at some point on Friday.

The hurricane season is winding down fast. November hurricanes are rare due to the onset of cooler ocean temperatures and higher wind shear across the Atlantic basin. Since 1900, there have only been four November hurricane landfalls in the U.S. – the most recent being Hurricane Kate in 1985. The official end of hurricane season is November 30.

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