Hurricane Danny’s destructive landfall in coastal Alabama, which reaches its 29th anniversary next month, remains one of the state’s most memorable storms, a slow‑moving system that drenched Mobile and Baldwin counties and set the record as the wettest tropical system ever to hit Alabama.
Its impact came during one of the strongest El Niño seasons since 1965, a year when forecasters also expected below‑average tropical activity.
That history is why Alabama emergency officials are urging residents not to relax this year, even as forecasters again anticipate fewer storms because of El Niño. The message, repeated throughout the opening days of hurricane season, is simple: it only takes one…