A zombie cyclone just rose from the dead

The former hurricane, Paulette, essentially died last week, on Sept. 16.  But Paulette has risen again, in the form of a tropical storm (meaning an organized storm with wind speeds of at least 39 mph). The storm is spinning in the far eastern Atlantic. "Because 2020, we now have Zombie Tropical Storms," the National Weather Service tweeted Tuesday morning. "Welcome back to the land of the living, Tropical Storm #Paulette." Paulette diminished into a "post-tropical storm" last Wednesday, meaning a tropical cyclone that loses the wind speeds and symmetrical shape needed to be classified as a tropical storm (hurricanes are powerful tropical storms). But amid a profoundly busy Atlantic hurricane season that has seen a record-breaking number of storms for this point of the year (the season exhausted all the 2020 storm names and is now using Greek letters) the return of Paulette is another exceptional event.  Read more...More about Extreme Weather, Hurricanes, Science, and Climate Environment