Posted on 07/28/2023 12:57:54 PM PDT by DallasBiff
It will come as more bad news to Louisianans, but it nonetheless may be another reflection of the changing climate: A team of scientists say hurricane season should be even longer.
The research team made up of climate scientists say the season, which spans six months from June 1 to November 30, is not long enough anymore.
One of the scientists is state climatologist and LSU professor Barry Keim. Keim says that they began looking into this in 2020 -- the most active hurricane season on record -- because they noticed that named tropical storms were more frequently occurring outside of the Atlantic Hurricane Season.
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I don't want to jinx anything.
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It wasn’t until the late 60s the first weather satellite went into space and it lasted only a few days before crashing.
The point is, when the statement is made that last year was the most active hurricane season on record, how would anyone know that considering in years past we had no idea how many hurricanes or tropical storms formed that came nowhere near land and never got named or people became aware of them.
Back in the 1920s or 1930s we had no idea how many hurricanes formed compared to today when we know immediately when cloud comes off the coast of Africa.
Are you suggesting there’s an ulterior motive in this info?
It's amazing the reactions when I point out the issue of satellites and how long we've had them. It honestly seems to have never occurred to some we had no idea about storms out in the Atlantic in 1870.
It also blows their mind when I tell them how long we've had reliable records...which is the satellite era...which is around 50 years give or take.
Mo money, mo money, mo money.
It is all global warming to introduce global communism. The destruction has not come yet.
Me neither but...
You can’t gin up the fear machine for the future if you can’t have a decent number of named storms now.
We are already up past Don, a fish frazzler in the middle of the ocean that posed no hazard to anyone anywhere but its a named storm. Next year it will be forgotten that it was a nothing burger but still one of the ominous “named storms”.
“Should”
Nature has a habit of ignoring the expectations of mere humans, even the sciency ones.
I hate when they define these weather patterns by the calendar. It used to be that down here the monsoon season happened with the dew point and barometric pressure were in certain ranges for 3 days in a row. Basically the stuff that leads to serial rain storms. I’m not really sure what marked the end, other than we stopped getting rain. But then they decided that’s no good. So now monsoon season is June 15 to Sep 15... ie summer. Even though we didn’t start getting monsoon pattern rain until last week.
Hurricane season should be from when tropical storms start forming, to when they stop. Not summer and fall.
They name snow “storms” now, too. Just to keep the hysteria going all winter long.
Before long, I expect every passing rain shower will get a name.
And aren’t there hurricanes, which happen outside of the hurricane season dates?
Just thinking, how winter is from approx. Dec. 21st to March 21st every year, but “winter storms” sometimes happen in April. I thought the same concept could occur with hurricanes.
I thought it was always “Hurricane season” (the drink) in N’Awlins…;-)
Yeah, another whole problem with the “seasons” thing. We had a classic monsoon pattern storm in mid May, blew in the south east, dumped a bunch or rain, blew out the north west. I didn’t look up “the numbers” but it could be we actually started the season then, and just wound up with a big pause. But of course NWS was all “oh no, that’s not a monsoon storm, monsoons don’t start until June 15th”. Paper pushers, blah.
I had no idea “hurricane season” was the law.
I thought it was just a convenient nickname given to the seasons during which hurricanes were more likely to occur.
Can hurricanes be fined/sued for showing up outside of “hurricane season?”
Seasons:
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
Everything else is made up.
Trying to Reason, With Hurricane Season.
Not to mention, they used to name Hurricanes, now they name snowflakes & wind gusts.
Meteorology has gotten as bad as public education. If we only had more money, we could do this better.
Yes, very true, the Weather Channel names winter snowstorms.
Who knows, maybe they will start naming snow flurries, strong breezes, random rainy days????
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