[lucky american]

It isn’t early this year. I don’t mean to be unpleasant here but,

THEY DID”T COUNT TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS AS STORMS RELATED TO HURRICANES UNTIL GLOBAL WARMING WAS INVENTED.DON”T BOTHER ME UNTIL YOU HAVE AN ACTUAL HURRICANE

25 years ago this would have been just another storm but now that they are counting storms and needing to come up with a certain amount of them to meet an agenda, anything with a stiff breeze is counted as a named storm.

[NautiNurse]

1. You are confusing being bothered with your free choice to open and read this thread.

2. A tropical depression is not "a named storm."

3. I took the time to make sure you weren't on the hurricane ping list, and you shall remain off the list for all eternity. So let it be written, so shall it be done.

[dirtboy]

THEY DID”T COUNT TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS AS STORMS RELATED TO HURRICANES UNTIL GLOBAL WARMING WAS INVENTED.

I guess that tropical depression that hit the Texas coast in 1971 with rain so hard my dad had to pull off the road was just a figment of my 11-year-old imagination then.

Get lost.

[dirtboy]

1969 Atlantic tropical season: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Tropical_Depression_Seven

And if you bother to open it, you'll see there were tropical depressions back then, long before global warming, that never became named storms.

[Bob Buchholz]

You are ALMOST right, and what think you are saying is true. It is SUB-Tropical storms that were not named or counted prior to around 2004. Tropical storms have been named once they graduate from tropical depressions for as long as I can remember.