Tropical Storm Isaias marks one of the earliest hurricane seasons ever
Hurricane Isaias on August 4th (RAMMB/)Read PopSci’s guide to evacuating in a pandemic here.Hurricane Isaias is now the fifth named storm of the year to make landfall in the continental US, continuing what has been an incredibly early hurricane season. The last time that five named storms had hit this soon was in August 1916. We’ve now beaten that record by about two weeks. It’s the ninth named storm of 2020 (not every storm has made landfall in the US), and the earliest one on record. The last weather event to hold the record was Hurricane Irene in 2005, which hit eight days later in the year.Meteorologists initially thought the storm might weaken as it passed over the mountainous island of Hispaniola last week, but it instead maintained its strength and intensified into a Category 1 hurricane as it moved towards the US. Isaias made landfall in the Carolinas on...