Posted on 11/30/2025 9:36:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season proved to be consequential, even though no hurricanes made landfall in the U.S for the first time since 2015.
Prior to the start of the season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted above average activity in its initial Atlantic hurricane season outlook, with 13 to 19 named storms, six to 10 hurricanes, and three to five major hurricanes, Category 3 or stronger.
This season, the Atlantic basin produced 13 named storms, five of which became hurricanes. This included four major hurricanes with maximum sustained winds reaching 111 mph or greater.
Considering that a portion of this year’s hurricane season occurred during the longest federal government shutdown in history, experts say it is fortunate that none of the storms hit the U.S.
"The forecasters at the NHC kept working, but without pay," said Marc Alessi, climate attribution fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "The U.S. got lucky that no hurricanes made landfall during the government shutdown. FEMA response would have been limited."
This season offers a glimpse into how human-amplified climate change could influence tropical activity in the coming decades. While the total number of tropical cyclones is expected to remain steady or even decrease slightly, the storms that do form are likely to be more intense, according to climate scientists.
Human-caused climate change has led to substantial ocean warming, which fuels hurricane intensification.
The changing climate is also amplifying the indirect effects of tropical systems that remain well offshore, making coastal areas more vulnerable.
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It's a great job. Whenever anything happens, just attribute it to climate change.
The ocean temperature drastically changed because of so many people pissing in the oceans...Per the liberal news reports....
A precise and valid observation. Well done.
ABC News & Disney spinning like a hurricane.
Give credit where it’s due: No hurricanes had a US landfall in 2025 because of Al Gore and John Kerry’s wildly successful rhetoric about global warming... /s
“The changing climate is also amplifying the indirect effects of tropical systems that remain well offshore, making coastal areas more vulnerable.” Huh?
As is so typical, the statement is garbage. What follows is the post I make whenever I see a statement from these climate expert scientists about hurricanes.
For anything as complex as weather, any single year or a couple consecutive years of events is just random. Grouping in ten-year segments seemed to provide information. In the hard sciences of Math and Physics, the earth’s climate is known as an open system, meaning all influencers are probabilistic and not deterministic. Any assertions must be less than certain, and any models developed from such assertions must suffer a continuing decrease in probability the further they are extended into the future.
I found an insight from an article with a map showing 173 individual hurricanes hitting land on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts from 1850 to present. I decided to see if the upward sloping curve caused by warming ocean temperatures I have always heard about from the climate change people would show more extreme weather. Like everything else they say, it did not make sense.
173 Years of US Hurricane Strikes
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4285273/posts
1851-60: 17
1861-70: 17
1871-80: 20
1881-90: 20
1891-00: 28
1901-10: 23
1911-20: 21
1921-30: 17
1931-40: 24
1941-50: 31
1951-60: 35
1961-70: 17
1971-80: 15
1981-90: 18
1991-00: 15
2001-10: 23
2011-20: 19
2021-24: 12
Concerning a single event, I had the 20:00 to 24:00 OOD watch on the bridge on our ship as Typhoon Rose passed over Hong Kong in 1971. The eye was six miles from us. The measuring device at the British weather station broke as the winds exceeded 175 miles per hour.
After Katrina....they predicted that Cat 5s would become commonplace. Well, that didn’t happen.
blame the ocean volcanos...
We need a Department of Witch Doctors to make weather predictions for the next few years.
If they do better than the scientists then they get to eat the scientists!
Lol.
Apparently their pay level was appropriate for their skill level.
No mention of China or India. I guess only whites in the West must suffer for the imaginary crisis.
Good post.
Sounds like a plan.
Yes. It because they dare not enter the Gulf Of America!
“...As a Florida resident, if Climate Change ends hurricanes in Florida, then I’m all for Climate Change....”
Amen to that!!
I suspect there’s a whole, big bunch of folks all along the Louisiana/Texas border that would wholeheartedly agree with ya. IF that’s what stops em, let the so-called “climate change” do its thing...LOL
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-above-normal-2025-atlantic-hurricane-season
NOAA predicts above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
Above-average Atlantic Ocean temperatures set the stage
May 22, 2025 — Forecasters within NOAA’s National Weather Service predict above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin this year.
The season is expected to be above normal – due to a confluence of factors, including continued ENSO-neutral conditions, warmer than average ocean temperatures, forecasts for weak wind shear, and the potential for higher activity from the West African Monsoon, a primary starting point for Atlantic hurricanes. All of these elements tend to favor tropical storm formation.
The high activity era continues in the Atlantic Basin, featuring high-heat content in the ocean and reduced trade winds. The higher-heat content provides more energy to fuel storm development, while weaker winds allow the storms to develop without disruption.
This hurricane season also features the potential for a northward shift of the West African monsoon, producing tropical waves that seed some of the strongest and most long-lived Atlantic storms.
“In my 30 years at the National Weather Service, we’ve never had more advanced models and warning systems in place to monitor the weather,” said NOAA’s National Weather Service Director Ken Graham. “This outlook is a call to action: be prepared. Take proactive steps now to make a plan and gather supplies to ensure you’re ready before a storm threatens.”
“...Methinks it would be impossible to change the average temperature of the ocean based on human activity....”
I dunno...these communist blow-hard polticians with their mighty AWFULs and low-IQ DEI types blow enough hot air BS every single day to sway something.
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