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September 22, 2004
Weather Observations
In March 28 of this year, another first occurred in world weather: A Cyclone that formed in the South Atlantic made landfall in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, killing three people. The Cyclone qualified as a Category 1 on the Safford Simpson Scale, and as the World Meteorological Organization does not yet have a list of naming South Atlantic storms, the name Cyclone Catarina has been informally adopted. This was the first recorded hurricane in the South Atlantic and the third cyclonic system. The first was recorded in 1991 and the second in January of this year. Details of those, and other unusual weather formations may be found at Tropical Cyclones Images and Movies.
A loop of the satellite images can be found here: March 2004 South Atlantic Hurricane.
This begs the question, am I completely out of touch with the news or did other people “miss” this important news story as well?
Posted by Bastique at September 22, 2004 9:33 PM