Storm Watch Team Meteorologist Skyler Harman looks back at Tropical Storm Fay and ahead to 2024 hurricane season
What will hurricane season look like in 2024? First, let's take a look back at a storm that happened four years ago this week.
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What will hurricane season look like in 2024? First, let's take a look back at a storm that happened four years ago this week.
Tropical Storm Fay made landfall near Atlantic City, NJ on July 10, 2020.
The amount of rainfall for New Jersey was mainly between 2 to 3 inches.
Most of this rain fell in the span of a few hours, leading to flash flooding throughout the area.
Wind gusts over 50 mph impacted the area as well, contributing to damage around the state.
A total of three deaths occurred in New Jersey due to dangerously high surf conditions and rip currents.
Beyond the loss of life, the estimated cost damage from Tropical Storm Fay was around $220 billion.
Tropical Storm Fay set the record as the earliest forming "F-named" storm.
Since Fay in 2020, there has been Fred, Fiona and Franklin.
Of these, the only storm that impacted New Jersey was Fay.
What will the rest of the hurricane season look like this year?
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has only checked off Alberto and Beryl so far.
By this time in 2020, we had already checked off the "F" storm. While we are not going to beat the record of earliest named "F" storm this year - nor would we want to - we have seen some other records set.
To name a few, Hurricane Beryl became the earliest forming Category 4 hurricane, forming in the month of June.
Beryl has also set the record for the earliest recorded Category 5 hurricane, as well as becoming one of now two Category 5's to occur during the month of July.
New Jersey has been fortunate to not be directly impacted by Beryl.
It is still early for hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. There is plenty of time for the possibility of additional records being broken.
