Tropical Storm Fred became the sixth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season late Tuesday night.
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On average, the sixth named storm develops on Aug. 28, so Fred is more than two weeks ahead of schedule. This is according to a from Philip Klotzbach, a Colorado State University meteorologist who specializes in Atlantic basin hurricane season forecasts.
Klotzbach also said that, since 1966, only five other...
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