Test your knowledge of hurricanes with this quiz devised by Jay
Barnes, hurricane historian. Each month during hurricane season, we
will randomly draw a name from all entrants. Each winner will receive
a free copy of one of Jay Barnes's books: North
Carolina's Hurricane
History Third Edition or Florida's
Hurricane Historyyour choice! Winners
will be notified by email.
6. Though
this hurricane never struck the United States, it reached category five
strength and killed thousands in Nicaragua and Honduras in 1998, making
it the deadliest hurricane of the twentieth century in the Western
Hemisphere:
Bonnie
Felix
Mitch
Allen
7. In 2002,
the National Hurricane Center reevaluated this hurricane and determined it
was actually a category five at landfall:
Opal, 1995
Andrew, 1992
Betsy, 1965
Miami Hurricane of 1926
8.
Hurricane Floyd was a $6 billion diaster in North Carolina. It was also
called the "worst disaster ever" in what other state:
South Carolina
Delaware
New Jersey
New York
9. The
record number of named storms in 2005 exhausted the list of 21 storm names
for the year. Thus, the National Hurricane Center used this name for the
22nd storm of the year:
Alpha
Adam
Allison
Able
10. This
hurricane delivered wind gusts over 150 to the National Hurricane Center
in Miami.
Andrew 1992
Betsy 1965
Charley 2004
Donna 1960
11.
Category five hurricanes do not stike the U.S. often. Since weather
records began in the late nineteenth century, category five storms are
known to have struck our shores:
Six times
Three times
Two times
Never
12. With
over 1,800 deaths, this hurricane is the deadliest in Florida's history.
Tampa Hurricane of 1921
Miami Hurricane of 1926
Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928
Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
13. In the
U.S., the leading cause of hurricane fatalities over the last fifty
years is:
Electrocution
Drowning in storm tides
Trauma from wind-tossed
debris
Drowning in inland flooding
14. Scientists
agree that the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season is a direct result of
global warming.
True
False
15. Hazel
(1954) was followed by three hurricane landfalls in NC in 1955: