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Nine days before today’s start of the hurricane season, subtropical storm Ana became its first named storm.For the seventh straight year, the Atlantic Hurricane season has begun to churn out cyclones ahead of the official June 1 date.The system was the first of what hurricane forecasters, including the respected Colorado State University, predict will be an “above-normal” season. Over the next six months, we can expect 17 named storms and eight hurricanes, with four of those predicted to be major storms.Early storms are increasingly becoming the norm, so much so that the National Hurricane Center said it would start issuing its weather updates from mid-May rather than June 1.
Community disaster response boosted with Red Cross gift
Article by March 31, 2021
Community disaster response in the windswept rural northeastern parish of St Andrew received a boost Tuesday from the Red Cross Society with a range of emergency tools and equipment worth $15,000.
The gift includes three radio communication sets, wheelbarrows, ladders, forks, shovels, chainsaws, hard hats, hurricane straps and harnesses, reflective vests, booths, gloves, and tarpaulins, among other items. They were presented to members of the St Andrew Community Disaster Response Team at the Red Cross Society’s Warrens, St Michael office.
The CDRT is the group within the community that feeds information to the District Emergency Organization (DEO). Red Cross Programmes Manager Danielle Toppin commended the volunteers from St Andrew for committing to disaster response work within.