Rare Pair
From the National Hurricane Center… concerning Igor and Julia, both category four hurricanes in the Atlantic…
• Two category four hurricanes existing simultaneously in the Atlantic basin has occurred only one other time since 1900: September 16, 1926 (Hurricane #4 and the Great Miami Hurricane).
• There are nine other incidents of two major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher) occurring at the same time, some only briefly: 1933 (Storms #11 & #12), 1950 (Dog & Easy), 1951 (Easy & Fox), 1955 (Hilda & Ione),1958 (Helene & Ilsa), 1961 (Carla and Debbie), 1964 (Dora &Ethel), 1969 (Camille & Debbie), and 1999 (Floyd & Gert).
• Hurricane Julia is the most intense hurricane to be located so far in the Eastern North Atlantic.
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