Posted on 05/27/2016 4:09:42 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's outlook Friday called for a near-normal season with 10 to 16 named storms, with four to eight hurricanes and one to four "major" ones with winds reaching 111 mph and up.
The long-term season averages are 12 named storms, with six hurricanes and three major ones.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.excite.com ...
I predict the exact opposite. That’s a pretty safe bet with pronouncements from the Obama Adminstration!
*yawn* I like how they’ve been moving the goalposts on what they consider a storm. Years ago it was predicted hurricanes. Now it’s predicted storms, period. Of course it sounds worse. Fact is, we haven’t had a major hurricane make landfill in several years.
I hope so, we haven’t seen a good tropical system around here in years.
deja vu all over again and again and again and again and again .
I think I have seen that headline in late May every hear fro the past 10-15 years. Globull Warming, doncha know.
Unless they don’t occur.
“Dammit, I wish that global warming would get here, already!”
Of course they do. El Nino is waning, La Nina is building. There is bound to be a change of some kind.
Give a monkey a typewriter and sooner or later he’s bound to spell a word.
One of their predictions will eventually be (partly) right. And they will get extraordinary media attention about their globull warming warnings.
Excellent malapropism!
Their predictions are so much more accurate when they predict the “past year’s hurricanes and tropical storms” ... they probably should stick to what they are good at!
LOL! Now I KNOW FR needs a “LIKE” button.
2017: 'Less tropical storms than expected'
What does Jim Cantori say?
Malapropism? Do you mean misappropriation? I don’t think anything I said was confusing or meant to be funny. It’s been 9 years since a major hurricane (Cat 3+) has made landfall on the continental US.
They’ve only recently started changing their modeling to include “storms” in the statistical discussion. Most of those storms include 35-74 mph tropical storms, and the media gets frothy just talking about those.
They want it all to mean that “global warming” is making things worse, when in reality, most summer thunderstorms in Florida have winds in that range, albeit not sustained.
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