Doooooooom!
(Grist) Following a tempestuous 2012, another torrent of hurricanes and superstorms is forecast to crash into the Atlantic coastline this year.
Um, we had Superstorm Sandy, the first big superstorm (which was not a hurricane when it made landfall on the US east coast) since 1991. We had one just barely a hurricane (it can be argued Isaac wasn’t at landfall). There have been no major hurricane landfalls on the US since late 2005, and Isaac was really the first hurricane since 2008. There were only a few tropical systems that even made landfall, or did more than provide some slightly rough seas. That’s “tempestuous”, and what Grist calls “wild” in the headline, apparently. A lower than average season. Which is probably due to “climate change” or something. The link to
From USA Today: Top forecasters predict an above-average 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, with 18 tropical storms forecast, of which nine will be hurricanes.
This comes on the heels of a less-than-stellar forecast in 2012, when nearly twice as many storms formed as had been predicted.
A typical year, based on weather records that go back to 1950, has 12 tropical storms, of which seven are hurricanes. A tropical storm has sustained winds of 39 mph; it becomes a hurricane when its winds reach 74 mph.
One of the great things in these modern days is the ability to see storms that would have been missed in the past, like with satellites and modern shipping.
You have the Weather Channel predicting 16 storms, 9 named, and 5 major. Then we get this
With the Atlantic expected to churn up so many storms this season, it’s highly likely that at least one of them will make landfall in the U.S. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune:
[Klotzbach and Gray]Â say there is a 96 percent chance of a hurricane hitting somewhere along the U.S. coast, compared to a long-term average of 84 percent, and an 80 percent chance of a hurricane hitting somewhere along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, compared to the long-term average of 60 percent.
So be ready to batten down the hatches, East Coast. Another wild summer may soon be upon us.
Does anyone else get the feeling that Warmists are really, really, really hoping for a devastating hurricane season, the first since 2005, in order to push their Cult? Remember, they were saying that AGW would cause lots and lots more landfalling hurricanes. Well, that prognostication died after 2005. Then they said there wouldn’t necessarily be more, but they would be more powerful. Well, that died, too. If this year is slow one for landfalls, I’ll put on my Madam Zelda hat and say that the Climate Astrologers will blame “climate change” and come out with all sorts of “studies” to prove it in retrospect. Because hurricanes only started when man made the combustion engine or somethin.
