[a fool in paradise]

Every year, the same prediction. Double the urgency when the past season is mild.

[MarkeyD]

Broken clock is right twice a day.

[a fool in paradise]

Jean Dixon and Criswell had a better track record with new year predictions.

[Windflier]

"If urban gardeners have a complaint, it's about the paucity of rain that has left us six inches below normal and flirting with drought."

It's been very dry here in North Texas, too. I've never seen our local lakes so low.

It's making things tough as hell on my rain gutter business, as well. The phone is quieter than I've seen it in ages, and we're now scraping to get by.

[hinckley buzzard]

As if the forecast ever changes. Haven't had a bad year since 2005(Katrina et al). Las Ninas follow Los Ninos and nothing ever much happens. This last year they took to naming every little rainstorm in order to keep their numbers up.

[demkicker]

I still laugh when hearing the phrase, “climate change”.

[calex59]

I can tell you where your rain is, it is in northern CA. We have had more rain this year so far than I can remember and I have lived here a long time. We have more coming in this week and next.

[Dapper 26]

What, another busy hurricane season? They’re acting like a broken clock.

[rdl6989]

bump

[Puckster]

“record high sea temperatures in development zones of the tropical Atlantic”

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/ocean/sst/anom_anim.html

I've been watching this website for years and the tropical Atlantic seems normal right now. Watch what the extended winter season does to the tropical zone and then what happens when June approaches and the southern hemisphere gets colder.

Also interesting to watch is seeing the cold wake from one hurricane ending the life of another that crosses the cold wake of the previous storm, albeit, within a week of the cold wakes presence.

[Puckster]

Frequency of storms vs overall intensity.

The last few years since 2006 has seen a big drop in the average season energy of the total storms.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Ping!

[Hardastarboard]

So why are we thinking about tropical storms at the onset of winter?

Because we needed to feed our readers a dose of liberal indoctrination, and it was "global warming's" turn in the rotation?

[RnMomof7]

I was just thinking the same thing as I read this...

I think this has been the forecast since the NO tragedy

Up here we could believe a forecast about people being frozen to death and buried in the snow

All that global warming ya know

[KSCITYBOY]

They keep calling tails.

[TwoSwords]

You might want to check out a site jmmccaneyscience.com. He’s a thruther nut but his science offering’s seem to answer a lot of questions about what real weather is all about. To me his political rants boil down to what most of us feel. What’s going on?

[Jedidah]

There were 19 named storms this year, well above average, and in line with the forecast.

We don’t think of 2010 as a big year for tropical activity, because most of them didn’t hit land, particularly our land.

I’d like to think that you are right, but I fear that your cynicism is unjustified.

[Don Corleone]

They are just trying to justify those huge Gummint grants. “Publish or Perish”, used to be the mantra in earlier times.

[Ron H.]

Ho hum, here they go again!