Well hurricane season is over and we escaped without even one entering the gulf from the Atlantic Ocean. To many this came as an unexpected surprise given the number of hurricanes predicted to form by national forecast organizations. However, I was not worried as the season progressed because I relied on an old New Orleans’ wives tail to predict the chances of a serious hurricane forming in the gulf, namely, lovebugs.
Years ago, when I first moved to New Orleans, I was told by an elderly New Orleans native that the amount of lovebugs, those small nasty black bugs that collect all over the front of your car from mid-August through September, indicted the number of storms that would enter the gulf and turn into hurricanes.
And guess what, these creatures seem to be more accurate than our local weather forecasters. For example, last year many lovebugs, and 8 storms in the gulf, and this year very, very few lovebugs and no hurricanes actually entered the gulf. This was noteworthy because it was the first time since 2015 that no hurricanes made landfall in the U.S., and the first time since 2019 that no major hurricanes impacted Florida.
So, there you have it. Apparently those messy lovebugs know all about hurricanes and could teach a thing or two to our local weather gurus
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