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Brace for a truly terrible hurricane season
NY Post ^ | 4 August 2017 | Hana R. Alberts

Posted on 08/04/2017 10:02:50 AM PDT by oh8eleven

Batten down the hatches.

Thanks in part to warmer waters in the southern Atlantic Ocean, experts are predicting a worse-than-usual hurricane season.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanes; hurricaneseason; weather
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To: Godebert
The last Category 3 or higher hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. was back in 2005.

You have to go back to the 1700s to find a major hurricane drought of this length. Of course, much of the U.S. Gulf Coast was not settled in the 1700s (for that matter, none of the Gulf Coast was U.S. territory in the 1700s). It would be easy to miss the landfall of a major hurricane landfall. It is fair to say that the current major hurricane drought is the longest in recorded history.

41 posted on 08/04/2017 10:24:23 AM PDT by SSS Two
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To: be-baw; Lakewood
Okay, so today it is June 1 to November 30. In 1935 it started as June 15th to November 15th. The peak seems to be September.


42 posted on 08/04/2017 10:24:29 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: txrefugee

Stories like this remind me of that hysterical report on the “Today” show about ten years ago when they were trying fabricate a dramatic story about heavy flooding in New Jersey after a major storm. The NBC reporter was paddling around in a canoe on camera, and in the middle of her report a couple of guys walked in front of the camera from left to right. The water was about six inches deep. LMAO.


43 posted on 08/04/2017 10:25:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: oh8eleven
The funniest part is this:

That’s in contrast to an average season, which “produces 12 named storms, of which six become hurricanes, including three major hurricanes,” the NOAA says.
OK, so three major hurricanes in an average season...
“Forecasters predict a 70 percent likelihood of 11 to 17 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher), of which five to nine could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including two to four major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of 111 mph or higher),” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) most recent report.
OK, so "two to four" major hurricanes...which is exactly in line wtih an average season...

Hardly "truly terrible", eh? Idiots...

Really, it's all about headlines that get page views these days.

44 posted on 08/04/2017 10:26:16 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: oh8eleven

Gawd. Not even worth debunking anymore.

Do these people realize what a parody of themselves they are yet?


45 posted on 08/04/2017 10:26:45 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: oh8eleven

I was around for the ‘72 hurricane season.

I’ve seen horrible.


46 posted on 08/04/2017 10:27:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Reno89519

Thanks for the info!


47 posted on 08/04/2017 10:28:14 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: fwdude
Like letting a guy talk you into "double or nothing" on any kind of betting.

Sooner or later you're probably going to lose one and break even and that guy just beat you.

Every year these clowns tell us everything is going to get blown away by hurricanes this year.

Doesn't happen but the next year they're right back at it with the same prediction.

One of these years we'll get some storms and then it'll be all "we told you, we told you!".

48 posted on 08/04/2017 10:29:34 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: oh8eleven

May the disasters hit only blue states....


49 posted on 08/04/2017 10:30:59 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: rktman

Between now and October is the busy season, especially around Labor Day. But, on another note, I am already seeing acorn caps all over my patio in North Florida. Any Almanac experts have a read on what it is saying?


50 posted on 08/04/2017 10:35:33 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: mewzilla
I was around for the ‘72 hurricane season.
I remember the 60s and early 70s as a very bad time for hurricanes.
I live in Rochester NY and even we got blasted by Hurricaine Agnes in '72.
51 posted on 08/04/2017 10:35:51 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

Well, since storms have been fewer and less damaging since the global warmests predicted the opposite would happen, it’s only a matter of time before they are right for at least one summer.


52 posted on 08/04/2017 10:37:40 AM PDT by jdsteel (States rights don't include ignoring federal law.Give me freedom not more government.)
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To: oh8eleven

They say that almost every year. Interesting to note that the season is almost half over already, although it’s usually August and September when we have the most activity.


53 posted on 08/04/2017 10:39:13 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: oh8eleven

ohBull.

They have not gotten this right in more than a decade.

There is hope though since even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.


54 posted on 08/04/2017 10:40:38 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: GOPJ
This isn't the usual liberal elite BS about ‘weather in a hundred years’... it's about water temperatures NOW... so it might be the truth...

Down here in southern FL we've been getting a lot of daily thunderstorm activity for the past month or so. It "feels" like a bit higher than other years, more like it was in 2013-2014. My completely unscientific theory is that lots of daily activity leading into the season acts like sort of a relief valve, and in those years we wind up with fewer hurricanes.

On the other hand, I could be totally clueless... and we'll just to wait and see!

55 posted on 08/04/2017 10:41:38 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Reno89519
June - Too Soon (first month)
July - Standby (for any news of a storm)
August - You must (prepare in case a storm comes)
September - Remember (to standby)
October - It's all over (last month)

56 posted on 08/04/2017 10:42:41 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: xzins

It’s been a relatively cool summer here in Eastern PA. Only a few days with highs in the nineties. I can remember a month of 100’s. But that was over 20 years ago.


57 posted on 08/04/2017 10:42:43 AM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: rktman
We talking 2018? Cause unless they pick up the pace, 2017 looks to be fairly benign.

Hurricane season is generally August-October.


58 posted on 08/04/2017 10:43:17 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Reno89519
When? I thought hurricane season is now almost over

Katrina and Rita were late August and mid September 2005. So we've got plenty of time yet.

59 posted on 08/04/2017 10:52:16 AM PDT by Bearshouse
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To: Uncle Miltie

Oh, I think they know they have little credibility with the public. They don’t care. It’s all about face time on camera. These are the same people who predict the future in January then-when a storm actually exists- they get all ‘iffy’ about the ‘inexact’ science of hurricanes! Worry when you have to-ignore it all otherwise.


60 posted on 08/04/2017 10:52:20 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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