It's Official...the 2009 Hurricane Season Has Begun!

It's June1, and the official start of 2009 Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean.

It's a short process for a tropical storm to become a hurricane but our ocean waters here at the Jersey Shore take some time to warm up enough to sustain a hurricane. So New Jersey's active hurricane season comes a little later.

As is always the case, the National Hurricane Center has reconfigured one if it's 6 hurricane name lists, and the names for 2009 storms are as follows:

Ana
Bill
Claudette
Danny
Erika
Fred
Grace
Henri
Ida
Joaquin
Kate
Larry
Mindy
Nicholas
Odette
Peter
Rose
Sam
Teresa
Victor
Wanda

The Hurricane Center recycles the lists every 6 years. Names are removed and replaced if a storm was particularly devastating.

In 2003, the last time this list was used, Fabian, Isabel and Juan were retired. On last year's list, which will be used again in 2014, three names were retired. They are Gustav, Ike and Paloma. Those names will be replaced with Gonzalo, Isaias and Paulette.

Be Prepared for Hurricanes in New Jersey

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