Left: Pali on January 11, 2016 just before reaching hurricane status. Right: Hurricane Alex on January 14, 2016 (NASA)
January featured not one, but two oddities in the tropics.
First, Hurricane Pali became the earliest hurricane on record in the central Pacific basin on Jan. 11, peaking as a Category 2 on Jan. 12. Pali was also just the third January storm dating to 1949 in the central Pacific.
About the same time, Subtropical Storm Alex formed in the northeast Atlantic Ocean on Jan. 13. Alex then fully acquired tropical characteristics and became a hurricane on Jan. 14, making it just the second hurricane on record to form during the month of January in the Atlantic
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