On September 1,2016,a Category 1 hurricane named Hermine struck the Big Bend region of Florida. Hermine moved northeast across Florida, then along the coastal plain of Georgia and the Carolinas. On September 3, the storm moved back over the Atlantic, along the North Carolina Outer Banks. The storm that emerged off the southeast coast was very different in physical appearance. On September 1, the cloud system was symmetric and pinwheel-shaped. On September 3, Hermine was highly asymmetric, with most of the dense cloud and heavy rain lopped north-northeast of center. In fact, it possessed a "comma shape" very similar to that of a winter-season cyclone called the nor'easter that commonly develops over the Outer Banks.
展开▼
