Posted on 12/15/2010 9:49:34 PM PST by a fool in paradise
Most Houstonians don't spend much time thinking about hurricanes in mid-December as the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year approach. Although next Tuesday marks the first day of winter, solstice also represents a seasonal nadir, when the sun reaches its lowest point in the southern sky and begins its northerly climb toward future summer.
So far this season, the nights have been bracing, but with no hard freeze in the metro area. 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.
So why are we thinking about tropical storms at the onset of winter? Two of the earliest forecasts for the storm season that begins June 1 are chilling. They predict another busy season, much like the one just concluded, but indicate the U.S. is unlikely to escape unscathed as it did in 2010, when a seemingly invisible shield shunted the big storms into Mexico, the Caribbean or the North Atlantic. ...The basis for these forecasts is a pool of cool water in the Pacific off South America, known as La Niña, and record high sea temperatures in development zones of the tropical Atlantic, both of which can boost storm formation.
...two years of good fortune might be one too many to expect.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Ping!
Because we needed to feed our readers a dose of liberal indoctrination, and it was "global warming's" turn in the rotation?
It is a mistake to equate the lack of U.S. landfalls with an uneventful or quiet tropical storm season.
That's not necessarily true for Texas. We here in the central part of the state often end up on the *dry* side of storms,(Rita, Ike, etc) increasing our temps and nullifying any chance of rainfall.
The TS that came through in September, actually tracked right over head giving us copious amounts during a 30 hour time period. Since then, not a drop.
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
They keep calling tails.
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?
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.
Lack of Sunspot activity.
The more sunspot (flares from sunspots) activity, the more 'extreme' the weather becomes (more energy).
Have you forgotten the summer of 2006?
No, I haven't. That was our first year here. You're right that it was bone dry. But, we didn't live right next to a lake at the time, so I didn't notice the low lake levels.
I had no idea that Lake Lavon got 16 feet below normal at that time. That must have been one helluva sight. I live right next to it now, so I'm very aware of the ebb and flow of the lake level.
In 2006 we lived in Rockwall. I remember that the cracks in our yard were so huge, that we wouldn't let our kids out there, for fear of them breaking ankles.
Re: the video of Lavon. Unreal.
I noted the bridge in the video, which means that it was filmed right down the road from me. Wildflowers growing on the lake bottom. Now that’s dry.
Easier said than done, my friend. You're talking learning, then starting a whole new business. We'd starve before we got the first solar panel installed.
That said, we're going in a new direction next year. Illegals have destroyed the building trades for Americans. After 30 years, I'm being forced to move on.
The Airbrushed Hurricane at the Southern equator is also spinning the wrong direction. In the Southern Hemisphere, they spin clockwise.
Gore should be tried and convicted for fraud. Perhaps some new legal fund should be raised to do just that.
They are just trying to justify those huge Gummint grants. “Publish or Perish”, used to be the mantra in earlier times.
Ho hum, here they go again!
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