Posted on 07/03/2018 10:46:42 AM PDT by BBell
Experts are now forecasting a "below-average" Atlantic hurricane season based on unusually cold temperatures in portions of the Atlantic Ocean, according to updated projections released Monday (June 2) by Colorado State University.
The new predictions call for a total of 11 named storms to develop this season, a drop from the original prediction of 14. The 11 storms include Subtropical Storm Alberto, the one named storm that has already occurred this season.
Of those 11 storms, four are expected to become hurricanes, including one major hurricane. The original forecast, released in April, included seven hurricanes, three of them major hurricanes. In late May, experts adjusted those expectations to six hurricanes, two of them major hurricanes, classified as Category 3 and above.
The adjusted storm outlook was released by Colorado State University's Department of Atmospheric Science and researchers for its Tropical Meteorology Project, considered among the top experts in the field.
The report, authored by Philip J. Klotzbach and Michael M. Bell, attributes the decrease in expected storms to temperatures that are "much colder than normal" in tropical and subtropical parts of the Atlantic Ocean.
Colder water in the tropical Atlantic provides less fuel for developing storms, experts said in the Monday predictions. The cold conditions also tend to coincide with higher pressure, drier air and "a more stable atmosphere," forecasters said. Drier and more stable air suppresses the formation of deep thunderstorms, which function as the building blocks of hurricanes.
The development of a weak El Nino at the height of hurricane season would also curtail storms, forecasters said.
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I'm sure AL Gore is deeply saddened. He really wanted a new yacht.
Good. We’ve got more than enough on our plate these days!
Can we blame Global Warming?
Winning?
Absolutely!
But, but we were warned thirteen years ago that we were the blue pill of bad weather and we would have more hurricanes, bigger hurricanes and longer hurricanes!
Who can forget the National Geographic cover from those years warning us of how WE were destroying ourselves!
but, but, but - that cannot be, globull warming or such.
I am too. These Glow-Bull Warming types are always wrong. Now that they're predicting a less active season, it's cause to worry - sort of like when Dick Morris predicts something...
Oh my goodness ! More hurricanes? Global warming! Oh wait.... fewer hurricanes.....global warming!
Al Gore was heard to cry out “Fake News!”
Good. Here is another thing that Barry Soetoro, Usurper in Chief, couldn’t do, where Trump is doing a much better job. This is YUGE! I think Trump also lowered the sealevel, too. MAGA MAROP (Make Americca Reject Obama Policies).
they will be wrong as usual
These must not be the same "experts" that call themselves climatologists.
What is notable too is when the forecast is cataclysmic, the lsm calls them "scientists". Now that the forecasts aren't so dire, they are just "experts".
As a Florida resident I am VERY glad to read this.
I abhor hurricanes.
Trump’s fault.
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