danielwAdministrator
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Wed May 25 2005 07:02 AM
Earliest Atlantic Tropical Systems

...February 2 - A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southern Florida the next day. It is the earliest reported landfall from a tropical storm, and the earliest formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin...
http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/1952#May
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tracks/1952.gif

"Earliest Hurricane" (teleconnection to Typhoon in China?)
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/lib1/nhclib/1908.pdf
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/Table8.htm
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/track_maps/1908.jpg

The following links have lots of information on early season tropical systems and their formation, or lack of formation.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/tropicalwx/climo/ns_prob_ann.htm
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2000/200009114018.html
http://vos.noaa.gov/MWL/fall_03/circulation.shtml
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/of02-206/phy-environment/cyclones1980-99.html
http://mpittweather.com/txt/jun99sum.txt
http://www.eglin.af.mil/weather/hurricanes/history.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/index.html
http://ccams.eas.cornell.edu/ithacation/ith_nov03.pdf
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~sharp/vortpaper.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/



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