Disaster Preparedness amidst COVID-19

The 2020 hurricane season begins June 1st and runs until November 30th. Current 2020 projections for COVID-19 show that the pandemic will peak near the end of April and continue into July. What this tells us is that there could be a convergence of hurricanes, floods and COVID-19 up the Atlantic coast.

An average hurricane season has twelve tropical storms, six of which are hurricanes. Last year, there were eighteen named storms, six of which were hurricanes. Colorado State University meteorologists predict this year to be an above average hurricane season, with sixteen named storms up the Atlantic Coast, eight of the storms being hurricanes. Four of those eight storms are predicted to be Category 3, 4 or 5, reaching wind gusts up to 111 miles per hour or more. There is a 69 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will reach landfall somewhere along the U.S. coastline.