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Hurricane Facts And Trivia

By Katie Roundtree, Finance Director, Northern Palm Beach County Improvement District
It’s that time of year The planet Jupiter has a hurricane which has been going Sources:
when our thoughts turn to on for over 300 years. It can be seen as a red spot on the http://www.hurricane-facts.com/Interesting-Hurricane-
the tropics and we keep our planet. This hurricane on Jupiter is bigger than the Earth Facts.php
fingers crossed for a quiet itself. http://www.livescience.com/31751-amazing-hurricane-
hurricane season. Below are In the southern hemisphere, hurricanes rotate in a facts.html
some interesting facts about clockwise direction, and in the northern hemisphere they http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/
these giant storms to kick rotate in an counter clockwise direction. This is due to sfl-hc-history-1495to1800-htmlstory.html
off the hurricane season on what’s called the Coriolis Force, produced by the Earth’s NPDES Tip: Hurricane season begins June 1. Make
June 1. rotation. sure your yards and trees are trimmed to avoid flying debris
Hurricanes, typhoons Hurricane season is from June to November when the during a storm. Dispose of your trimmings and clippings
and tropical cyclones are seas are at their warmest and most humid, which are ripe properly. Do not put them into storm drains or lakes!
all the same phenomenon. conditions for a hurricane to develop.
In the Pacific Ocean,
hurricanes are generally known as typhoons. In the Indian
Ocean they are called tropical cyclones. In the Atlantic
Ocean they are called hurricanes. The word hurricane underStanding taxeS
comes from the Taino Native American word, hurucane,
meaning evil spirit of the wind.
The earliest hurricane report comes from Christopher
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The first hurricane to hit the American Colonies
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many ships. taxes were completed on was the last time your tax professional came to you with
Bangladesh was a country that was created from a carbon copy paper and a a way to save taxes? Most tax professionals are great at
hurricane. In 1970, this region of Pakistan was struck by typewriter. Over the last recording your history, putting the right numbers in the
a cyclone and 500,000 people died. The people felt their 50 years we have evolved box and telling you how much to pay Uncle Sam. We show
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recently Hurricane Michael in 2018.
Hurricane Katrina is the costliest hurricane to have ever
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The man who first gave names to hurricanes was an and many more
Australian weather forecaster named C. Wragge in the
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When the National Hurricane Center began giving We Will Meet Any Competitor’s Price
official name to storms in 1953, they were originally all
female. Hurricanes didn’t start having male names until
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