Posted on 11/29/2014 10:40:03 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
The mellow 2014 Atlantic hurricane season ends Sunday (Nov. 30), marking another year without major hurricanes hitting the Eastern United States.
It has been a record-breaking nine years since a Category 3 hurricane (or stronger) made landfall along U.S. coastlines. The last was Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (Sandy was not a hurricane when it hit the northeast in 2012). The United States has never recorded a nine-year period without a hurricane touching its shores. The prior record for the longest stretch, from 1861 to 1868, was set during the Civil War, according to Colorado State University climatologists.
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"… the science is extremely clear now, that warmer oceans make the average hurricane stronger, not only makes the winds stronger, but dramatically increases the moisture from the oceans evaporating into the storm – thus magnifying its destructive power – makes the duration, as well as the intensity of the hurricane, stronger." - Al Gore, 2005
Well then.
Maybe CWII will get started.
More proof of Gorebull Warming err...climate change.
One would think all the smoke from that cannon fire would have warmed the atmosphere and caused some hurricanes! ;)
I guess this is one of the positive effects of climate change. /sarc
Weren’t they again predicting the hurricane-year-from-hell at the beginning of this years hurricane season, as they have for the last few years?
One of these years they’ll be right and then act like they’re some great forecasters.
But it’s getting to the point where we’re overdo.
I’d not be getting too comfortable if I lived in hurricane country. I’d be stocking up for next year.
Be fun watching the climate ‘scientists’ lie their way out of this one. The simplest way might be for them to make up data and show that there were several major hurricanes that hit the US that we just don’t remember. Because which is more important? Facts or ‘consensus’ science?
The US got off easy, but the weather people will be quick to point out that there were some very severe storms in the Pacific this year.
They will always be able to find something that they can point to to keep the climate change ruse going. To them, a lack of storms is just as indicative as too many storms.
What’s interesting is that weather people get some sort of perverse pleasure from watching bad storms in the guise of “study”. To them “sunny and mild” just isn’t interesting, they live for nasty, destructive weather.
And this lack of hurricanes occurred even though every time a NWS meteorologist passes gas, they name it. That’s how they can have 5 hurricanes listed by our government employees at the National Hurricane Center this year, and no one notices.Three of them, Bertha, Cristobal, and Fay, had winds of only 75-85 mph, the strength of many regular sand storms in the West and Southwest each year.
Talk about an easy job that apes could do…….
(Sandy was not a hurricane when it hit the northeast in 2012)
Unpossible, I was assured repeatedly that Sandy was a “superstorm” and that we were doomed.
The Chicago Cubs of the political world.
They’re already saying 2015 will be bad, maybe the worst yet...just as they said for 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010...
Seems that Global Warming is taking a terrible toll on forecast accuracy.
I like to watch the Weather Channel's shows about extreme weather..............as long as it's not in my neighborhood.
am i grasping for cognitive sanity? ... They speak of El Nino in three flavors now (strong moderate and weak) varing with opposite disproportionate effects on weather patterns in the same region.? And naming the winter storms now? I guess with no hurricane children they have to adopt something.
Unpossible, I was assured repeatedly that Sandy was a “superstorm” and that we were doomed.
Sandy being technically referred to as a hurricane or not a hurricane when it made landfall in NJ is still a matter of debate and controversy among some meteorologists.
Sandy certainly was a hurricane in the Caribbean, a Cat 3 storm at one point, but it fluctuated in strength as it moved up the east coast, at one point becoming rather weak tropical storm before strengthening back to hurricane status for a time.
Technically Sandy lost its “tropical” characteristics when it started pulling in cold air from a stalled cold front over the Appalachian Mountains shortly before making landfall but rather than weakening the storm, it actually grew in size and intensity, not in wind strength but in its low pressure center and size. At this point, it was no longer being fed by warm ocean waters (so technically no longer a hurricane) but feeding off the contrast of the collision of warm and cold air. That’s why some refer to it as an extra-tropical storm.
At this point the storm was more like a classic Nor’easter but yet still had some hurricane like characteristics as well; “post-tropical cyclone Sandy” is probably the most technically accurate classification. But the problem with that classification was that the NWS dropped hurricane warnings for the NE coast and those along the NJ coast who had “hurricane” insurance were not able to collect as many insurance companies denied claims saying that since it wasn’t according to the NWS a “hurricane”, so many of the policy holders couldn’t collect.
But whatever it is classified as; a hurricane, a Nor’easter, a hybrid storm or “a perfect storm” (comparable to the 1991 storm made famous by the movie which mostly blew off the coast and did not make a direct landfall in New England but still caused millions of dollars in damage) it was huge in size and pushed a whole lot of water out in front of it. It also caused substantial snowfalls, some areas of West Virginia got over 3 feet of snow in a very short amount of time.
http://fox6now.com/2013/10/29/what-was-superstorm-sandy/
While you may not have been “doomed” from this storm where you live, FWIW, I have relatives and friends who were living in NJ and NY and working in NYC, in lower Manhattan at the time. I know some folks who lost their homes, some who also lost their shore homes and some who lost their businesses – complete losses. My cousin who was working in the North World Trade Tower in both 1993 and on 9/11, had his current workplace flooded out because of Sandy and couldn’t get back to work for over two weeks. Fortunately his home was spared.
Well, I don't know if it's extremely clear, but, as the planet cools (which it is doing) there should be fewer heat-induced phenomena like Atlantic hurricanes reaching the East Coast.
As a diver in the caribbean basin the cold water makes me wear a wetsuit.
another year Gore and the Global Warming Scamers look like idiots!
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