Experts now predict a 'below-average' 2018 hurricane season

https://www.nola.com/ ^ | 7/2/18 | Laura McKnight

[freedomlover]

[Bubba_Leroy]

A below-average hurricane season is proof of Global Warming!

Every conceivable weather event is proof of Global Warming.

[hadaclueonce]

That Rat Bastard was almost POTUS.

[BlueLancer]

The President's immigration policies are so strict ...

How strict are they?

...uh ... the President's immigration policies are so strict, they're not even letting hurricanes come ashore anymore.

[dartuser]

I thought we were all doomed ... because its really hot ... in the summer ... in some parts of the country.

[Moonman62]

If we gave crooked politicians trillions of dollars to fix Global Warming, every year could be like this /s

[puppypusher]

If the NWS says that our average of Hurricanes will be below normal I’d prepare for one anyway.

We in the North Eastern U.S. should be prepared in the event a super storm comes our way.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Last year, the media tried to make Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico into Trump’s Katrina. But it didn’t work.

I’m sure they would love a major disaster, as awkward as it sounds, so they could use any issues with disaster response against Trump.

[Pollster1]

This makes no sense. The Academy Award winning documentary, and the Nobel Prize winning theory behind it warned us twelve years ago. The stark warning was clear and unambiguous: uncontrolled warming with increasing numbers of ever larger hurricanes. NASA/GISS data confirm that every month of those twelve years has been the "hottest ever", yet we're still not getting more hurricanes. What's up with that?

While the weather doesn't feel warmer where I live, or where any of my friends and relatives live, we can't generalize from that. Al Gore has reassured us that we're all going to die, and I'm not going to argue with the world's greatest scientist. But still, what's up with the hurricanes that were so prominent that they put them on the cover for his great documentary?

[BBell]

[I want the USA back]

Assigning a name to a natural event doesn’t make it special.
Temperature goes up, and it goes down. Trying to give meaning to natural fluctuations is an exercise in futility.

[17th Miss Regt]

So the hurricane season will fall below average now that Trump's policies have really started to take effect?

ANOTHER MASSIVE FAILURE FOR THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION!

[RooRoobird20]

Has The Goron been reached for comment yet?

[Renkluaf]

Only business I know of where you can be wrong more than 50% of the time and still keep your job.

[tm61]

dont worry, several of the tropical storms will identify as hurricanes..

[ClearBlueSky]

Ya gotta laugh at these people. They now pretend to see the future when they can't get today's weather right, much less tomorrows! We heard for days that this past Sunday would be heavy rain and storms- never happened. Then it was Monday and Tuesday. Isolated showers yesterday, ONE storm in the metro area today and...SUN!! Yet they get on air and PRETEND their forecasts were right! Nothing like hearing the 'heavy weather' is moving out when it never moved in!

Hurricanes change lives and Gulf Coast people that I know have NO trust in people who see the future but claim 'not an exact science' when storms exist.

I'm encouraging my great-niece to become a meteorologist . It's the only job I know where you can be WRONG consistently and stay employed. As long as she can look pretty on camera and play 'Magic 8 ball' with a computer she will be successful.

[The Antiyuppie]

Can we blame Global Warming?“‘

Absolutely.

[SES1066]

On April 05, CNN had this headline ... “The 2018 hurricane season could be as busy as the 2017 season”
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Colorado State University forecasts above-average season
The Atlantic hurricane season lasts from June through November. With the season less than two months away, Colorado State University issued its preliminary seasonal forecast on Thursday.
Forecasters expect a slightly above-average season, with 14 named storms. Seven of those are expected to become hurricanes and three are expected to be major hurricanes.
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Understand that this is a NORMAL PROCESS, predictions and then refinements on the predictions. To accept such as anything other than an educated guesstimate is a fool’s game.

[ClearBlueSky]

Yeah you right! They predict X number of storms then make damned sure they name every thunderstorm in the Atlantic to make their predictions true!

[Bratch]