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Hurricane Rina is Gaining Strength and Could be a Major Hurricane by Tuesday

mini-e008269cfd5efa8d318024fc3910a900.jpgHurricane Rina has quickly strengthened into a hurricane off the coast of Honduras. Rina is a category 1 storm with top winds of 75 miles per hour.

Forecasters are predicting that the storm could become a major hurricane with winds topping 111 miles per hour by late Tuesday.

The models largely agree that Hurricane Rina will not make it out of the Caribbean, and instead turn around and move back to the south beyond the 5-day forecast period.

In the unlikely event it were to get pulled northward, the odds are that it would be coupled with a mid-latitude weather system strong enough to seriously damage its tropical characteristics.

Rina’s formation brings this year’s tally of named storms to seventeen, making it the 7th busiest Atlantic hurricane season since record keeping began in 1851. Only 2005, 1933, 1995, 1887, 2010, and 1969 had more named storms.

However, 2011 has had an unusually low percentage of its named storms reach hurricane strength. Only 35% of this year’s named storms, including Rina, have made it to hurricane strength (six), and normally 55 – 60% of all named storms intensify to hurricane strength in the Atlantic.

Hurricane Rina is a rare October hurricane. However, history has demonstrated that hurricanes in October can still cause extensive damage. Just back in 2005, for instance, Hurricane Wilma caused extensive damage to South Florida, and was one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded on record. It became the 3rd costliest hurricane in U.S. history causing over $20 billion in damages in South Florida.
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