“”Highly Active””
Riiiiight.
They said the same thing after hurricane Katrina. Reality turned out very differently. Rush would often point out that after Katrina, no hurricane made landfall in the United States for over a decade.
Also, this is the same profession that daily gets to use vocabulary that would get you fired in any other vocation: Maybe, Perhaps, and my all-time favorite ‘chance of.’ They also interchange ‘partly cloudy’ and ‘partly sunny’ all the time.
Once doppler radar became available to the public, I use that instead of listening to ‘perhaps.’
Storms happen. Floridians are rarely caught off guard.
Meanwhile North Central PA is underwater from Debby remnants w/ all the creeks overflowing, and no one notices or reports on it.
I recall the great climate expert Mikey (Michael Moore) predicting one or even two Katrina sized storms every year going forward from 2005.
Not sure where you are getting your information. In September after Katrina, Rita hit the Texas coast, about 100 miles from where I lived.
But I agree with your overall point that this is mainly hype and sensationalism. We’ve always had hurricanes, floods, drought, heat waves and everything in between.