Hurricane Season Getting Longer »
Posted By DiffeeOnline 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyHurricane seasons have been getting longer over the past century and the big storms are coming earlier, LiveScience has learned. The trend has been particularly noticeable since 1995, some climate scientists say.
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Wolfie20072 months, 3 weeks ago
Hmmmm, hurricane season is getting longer and storms are coming earlier?? The length of the hurricane season is an arbitrary length of time set by the weather service. Actually, last year there were no major hurricanes in the US and so far this year there have only been two named storms, one of those Bertha did become a hurricane but it died out in the Atlantic Ocean.
Apparently this article is obsolete.
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amazed2 months, 3 weeks ago
omg! the sky is falling -- a month and 1/2 into the hurricane season we've had one! We haven't even gotten to C (#3) named storm, yet.
Here's a fact. Nobody really knows how many hurricanes were around before satellites. If they didn't make landfall or they didn't cross the shipping lanes, no one knew. In addition, we have only been crossing the Atlantic with any regularity for the last 2 or 3 hundred years. Before then, the criteria for knowing if there was a hurricane was landfall, but Florida is one of the most likely landfall hits for major hurricanes. St. Augustine (very far north) is the oldest city in the US. When you drive down Rt. 1 or A1A, the towns all proudly proclaim their incorporation dates -- almost all in the 20th century and most after 1950. There was hardly anybody there until the 60's -- there still large chunks of land that have few or no people living on it.
Hurricanes leave transient damage. We have NO WAY of knowing what is historically normal
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bill29362 months, 3 weeks ago
The main problem that these 'Hurricane experts have is that they have a short memory. Note the latest hurricane Bertha. They were able to track it with every bit of technology possible. But if it had occurred 50 years ago, would anyone have noticed? So when they talk about number and increases or decreases, note the overall number of years they don't have the same information for that they do today. Even now as compared to 10 years ago.
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