One of the reason I discount the idea that hurricanes are becoming stronger and more frequent because of Climate Change is this...
TECHNOLOGY
170 years ago, how did we even how many hurricanes developed, think about today, we know because of weather satellites and observation points when a puff wind comes off the coast of Africa that might cause a hurricane, often those hurricanes veer north and come nowhere near land and no one probably had any idea a hurricane formed or where it went....
When was the first weather satellite launched ?? 1960 and it last 79 days in space and orbited at around 450 miles, it wasn’t until 1970 NOAA launched a geosynchronous orbit satellite....
Up until that time we had no idea how many hurricanes developed or the intensity of many of them....
Yes, technology makes us more aware of the details of all tropical storms - so too does the simple fact that now a much larger portion of America lives by the exposed ocean (rather than inland waterways, natural sheltered ports, etc...). We all want to live by the beach.
Good point. The earlier numbers should have been significantly understated.
“One of the reason I discount the idea that hurricanes are becoming stronger and more frequent because of Climate Change is this...
TECHNOLOGY”
They just named a thunderstorm as the first storm of the year (Ana). It was nothing, and I mean nothing.
“It begins. The official start to hurricane season is more than a week away, but the first-named storm of the season formed early Saturday morning as Subtropical Storm Ana took shape over the Atlantic Ocean, east of Bermuda.
It transitioned to a tropical storm Sunday morning, and is Ana is forecast to become post-tropical by Sunday night and dissipate on Monday, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday.”
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2021/05/23/storm-Ana-tropical-hurricane/8781621686723/