September 3, 2008
Dear Tom, On Tuesday morning, there were four named storms from Gustav to Josephine in existence. Is this a record? --Ruth Patton Dear Ruth, Not quite. We checked the tropical cyclone archives and, according to Dr. Christopher Landsea of the Tropical Prediction Center, Tuesday morning's four named storms--Gustav, Hanna, Ike and Josephine--fell just short of the record of five named tropical cyclones that coexisted from Sept. 10-12, 1971, when Edith, Fern, Ginger, Heidi and Irene all roamed the...