The 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season Pace Is Already Faster Than 2020, Including a Deep Tropics Hurricane
“The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is already off to a fast start, even faster than the 2020 season in several aspects. Tropical Storm Elsa formed on July 1. That’s the earliest fifth named storm of any Atlantic hurricane season on record, besting the previous record set just last year by Edouard on July 5, 2020. That’s also over six weeks earlier than the average date of the fifth storm – August 18 – from 1991 through 2020. In eight of those 30 years from 1991 through 2020, the fifth storm didn’t arrive until September.”