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Ida produced hurricane conditions over portions of southeastern Louisiana, including hurricane-force winds and storm surge inundations of up to 14 feet above ground level. Footnotes 1 RICHARD J. PATCH is a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida.The cyclone summaries are based on Tropical Cyclone Reports prepared by National Hurricane Center hurricane specialists Robbie Berg, Jack Beven, Dan Brown, John Cangialosi, Andy Latto, Philippe Papin, Richard Pasch, and Brad Reinhart. In comparison, the 1991-2020 seasonal averages are 14 named storms, seven hurricanes, and three major hurricanes. Table 1 summarizes the activity, and Figure 1 depicts the tracks of the tropical storms and hurricanes of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. [Extracted from the article]

91 ht 1 I Note. i H = hurricane; MH = major hurricane; STS = subtropical storm; TS = tropical storm. 2 A subtropical storm has maximum sustained winds 39-73 mph; a tropical storm has maximum sustained winds 39-73 mph; a hurricane has maximum sustained winds 74-110 mph; a major hurricane has maximum winds 111 mph or greater. The hurricane accelerated northeastward on October 1 and brought hurricane-force winds and large damaging waves to the western portions of the Azores when it passed by those islands as a Category 1 hurricane early on October 2. It briefly became a Category 5 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) and later brought hurricane-force winds and large damaging waves to portions of the Azores when it passed just west of those islands as a Category 1 storm. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the activity of hurricanes in the eastern North Pacific in 2017. It mentions the formation of tropical storms Calvin and Greg as well as Hurricane Eugene which all crossed the coast of Africa. An overview of Tropical Storm Jova which took shape from the remains of Hurricane Franklin and later weakened into tropical depression is also presented.