How many hurricanes come early?
In this chapter, you will work with a list of the hurricanes that made landfall in Florida from 1950 to 2017. There were 235 in total. Check out the variable florida_hurricane_dates, which has all of these dates.
Atlantic hurricane season officially begins on June 1. How many hurricanes since 1950 have made landfall in Florida before the official start of hurricane season?
This exercise is part of the course
Working with Dates and Times in Python
Exercise instructions
- Complete the
forloop to iterate throughflorida_hurricane_dates. - Complete the
ifstatement to increment the counter (early_hurricanes) if the hurricane made landfall before June.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Counter for how many before June 1
early_hurricanes = 0
# We loop over the dates
for hurricane in ____:
# Check if the month is before June (month number 6)
if ____.____ < ____:
early_hurricanes = early_hurricanes + 1
print(early_hurricanes)