Posted on 09/11/2018 5:41:08 PM PDT by mdittmar
I was taught to never trust any conclusions that use the word “may”...it’s consistent with everything and anything.
Gee, a level 6 might bring the high tide clear in to us in Missouri. Can we add a few flying sharks to shoot at?
I predict that some PhD geeky guy will be working on defining a category TEN hurricane before the end of 2020.
I call bullshit. Not having read one word, it is BS!
Looks like 2005 takes the gold. The bronze goes to 1933, the year I was born. The chart says there is no pattern to hurricanes. Never has been.
Let’s raise the Minimum Category of hurricanes now! Hurricanes deserve a living category!
I thought the entire east coast was supposed to be under water by now. Yawn.
It’s a tossup between unrecoverable emotional wrecks or institutionally required mental illness. The left makes the determination so difficult.
Verrrrry interesting - there was an article on Weather Underground that said warming would likely cause an extra supply of shearing winds that wpild squash more hurricanes and give us less/weaker ones....
1972-1994: avg. Named = 9.08 , avg Hurricane = 4.91, avg CAT 3+ = 1.57
1995-2017: avg Named = 16.04 , avg Hurricane = 7.52, avg CAT 3+ = 3.52
Comparing 22-year periods: a 75% increase, a 53.2% increase, and a 124.2% increase...
something to look out for from the Left...
But... the rebuttal...
1926-1948: avg. Named = 10.21 , avg Hurricane = 5.09, avg CAT 3+ = 2.13
1949-1971: avg. Named = 10.22 , avg Hurricane = 6.43, avg CAT 3+ = 3.50
1972-1994: avg. Named. = 9.08 , avg Hurricane = 4.91, avg CAT 3+ = 1.57
1995-2017: avg Named = 16.04 , avg Hurricane = 7.52, avg CAT 3+ = 3.52
Looks like 1972-1994 was just a light period... Named storms seem to be trending upwards, but that's likely, as you note, to be more about us giving more scrutiny to them (plus technology), than for actual global changes.
(A 44-yr full cycle for Hurricanes? Related to the 11-yr cycle for Sunspots, maybe? Hmm.)
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