00:00Ever heard of a storm coming back from the dead?
00:02It sounds like a movie plot, but it can actually happen during hurricane season.
00:07Meteorologists sometimes use the unofficial term zombie storm for tropical systems that appear to die off,
00:12lose their tropical characteristics, and then redevelop days later over warm water.
00:17One of the most famous examples was Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
00:21After slamming the Gulf Coast as a major hurricane, Ivan lost wind intensity,
00:25drifted off the East Coast, then reorganized, looped back into the Gulf before making another landfall.
00:31Remember Dolly? If that storm's original circulation survived and reorganized, it would have stayed Dolly.
00:37But with that circulation completely gone, if an entirely new tropical cyclone forms,
00:42it gets the next name on the list. And the next name waiting is Faye.
