What is hurricane season around myrtle beach? do they normally get hit bad with bad weather during the season?

Answer 1

The hurricane season for the East Coast is June 1 to Nov. 1.
We always encountered storms sailing down the coast from NY and had to wait out the effects on the ocean from any storm in the area of the Atlantic. You can never tell where a hurricane will hit, some have hit there many have passed. It may be a heavy year for Atlantic storms this year.

Answer 2

The last major storm that hit here was hurricane Hugo in 1989. We had roughly 85 mph winds (storm made landfall south of us).

What's really funny is that almost every year, 1 or more hurricanes makes a beeline for Myrtle Beach, all the warnings come out, people consider evacuating, then at the last minute they make what we call the "Wilmington Swing," wherein they turn north and slam into NC near Wilmington, or the outer banks. So we get "brushed" quite often by offshore hurricanes, but since the 1950's, only two have made landfall in a significant enough way to cause major damage (Hazel and Hugo).

Answer 3

It is June 1 to Nov 1 each year regardless of where you live. August will be right about in the middle of the hurricane season. If you use this site http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ click on Climatology under history on the left hand side of the page and you can find the likelyhood of a storm hitting the Myrtle Beach area.

Answer 4

June 1 - November 30. Every year, there are flucuations in the number and strength of hurricanes. It really depends on the type of year . ie. whether el nino is present. But on average, myrtle beach is not at a great of a risk of a hurricane strike when compared to the Gulf Coast cities.

Answer 5

You can go here to get a close look at the number of hurricanes that have hit the area

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gifs/strikes_se.gif

While they may not get hit directly often, they still can be affected by storms moving up the coast causing storms, large surf ect

the reason they dont get hit directly often is because they are not sticking out like the outerbanks of North Carolina and Florida.

Answer 6

june thru november. ive been evacuated once and it was in september 1999. had one pass just to the north of me while there in 2003. late summer and early fall are the peak times to watch your travel plans.