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The 2010 Pacific hurricane season was the least active Pacific hurricane season on record (reliable records began in 1971), tied with 1977. The season accumulated the second-fewest ACE units on record, as many of the tropical cyclones were weak and short-lived.
Mar 11, 2011 · The National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center's Tropical Cyclone Reports (TCRs) contain information on all tropical (and subtropical) cyclones that have occurred within the Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and central Pacific basins, including synoptic history, meteorological statistics, casualties and damages, and the post ...
The 2010 Pacific hurricane season was one of the least active seasons on record, featuring the fewest named storms since 1977. The season officially started on May 15 in the eastern Pacific—east of 140°W—and on June 1 in the central Pacific—between the International Date Line and 140°W—and lasted until November 30.
On average, the eastern North Pacific season produces 15 named storms, nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes. June was the busiest month in the East Pacific basin; four tropical cyclones developed, one became a tropical storm, and two became major hurricanes.
There were more tropical storms in the Atlantic than the West Pacific in 2010, the second such occurrence on record after 2005. Throughout the entire Atlantic tropical cyclone database, 2010 is the only year with more than 10 hurricanes not to feature a hurricane landfall on the United States.
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. FOR THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC...EAST OF 140 DEGREES WEST LONGITUDE.. . TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY DURING THE 2010 EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC. HURRICANE SEASON WAS WELL BELOW AVERAGE. ONLY SEVEN NAMED STORMS. FORMED...OF WHICH THREE BECAME HURRICANES AND TWO BECAME MAJOR. HURRICANES. THE LONG-TERM AVERAGES ARE 15 NAMED STORMS...9.
