This comes to us via one of the Washington Post’s hyper-Warmists, Jason Samenow
The U.S. coast is in an unprecedented hurricane drought — why this is terrifying
Hurricanes, large and small, have eluded U.S. shores for record lengths of time. As population and wealth along parts of the U.S. coast have exploded since the last stormy period, experts dread the potential damage and harm once the drought ends.
Three historically unprecedented droughts in landfalling U.S. hurricanes are presently active.
A major hurricane hasn’t hit the U.S. Gulf or East Coast in more than a decade. A major hurricane is one containing maximum sustained winds of at least 111 mph and classified as Category 3 or higher on the 1-5 Saffir-Simpson wind scale. The streak has reached 3,937 days, longer than any previous drought by nearly two years.
We also learn that Florida hasn’t seen a hurricane strike since Wilma. And
Even the entire Gulf of Mexico, and its sprawling coast from Florida to Texas, have been hurricane-free for almost three full years, the longest period since record-keeping began 165 years ago (in 1851). The last hurricane to traverse the Gulf waters was Ingrid, which made landfall in Mexico as a tropical storm, in September 2013.
But, hey, you know what this means?
A study published by the American Geophysical Union in 2015 said the lack of major hurricane landfalls boiled down to dumb luck rather than a particular weather pattern. “I don’t believe there is a major regime shift that’s protecting the U.S.,†said study lead author Timothy Hall from NASA.
Well, that’s one of the excuses. Luck. We’ve heard several others, including that this was being caused by man-induced climate change. And, of course
Adam Sobel, a climate scientist at Columbia University, cautions that the drought in no way invalidates global warming predictions or the expectation that storms will grow more intense in future decades. The “notion that the hurricane drought in the Atlantic has somehow disproved the consensus projections of climate science is wrong, because the drought is still a relatively short-term fluctuation in a single basin, while the projections are for long-term global trends,†he writes on his blog.
See? It’s coming! Even though they all predicted that the big 2005 season would be the new normal.
But, Samenow does have a point: many people will forget just how dangerous tropical systems are, and ignore the danger. It’s easy to say “people aren’t that dumb”, but, heck, even during normal season, there are always plenty of dum
This is because the north atlantic currents that bring warm waters up from the equator have receeded and the temperature variants of these waters has cooled.
In essence the main contributing factor to hurrican creation is missing a key ingredient.
From NOAA:
“Beginning with 2006, we started getting a break, as weather patterns in the Eastern United States steered a lot more storms out to sea. Right now, that is expected to be the overall pattern this year” during hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.
The surge from these storms has caused the warm tides to cool enough to prevent hurrican activity along the eastern seaboard…..Simple Oceanography.
The earth does what it does…..Liberals in their vanity or more precisely greed for tax money believe that we can control the weather by building wind farms and solar farms and riding bicycles.
LOLOLOLOL. The only things these things will do is vastly increase the cost of electricity while still forcing co2 into the air as a result of the creation and continued creation of these monstrosities.
And still no mention of how President Obama kept us safe from hurricanes for 8 years. tsk, tsk…
Laim,
Your claim that the Atlantic has cooled resulting in a lack of hurricane formation can be easily substantiated – do you have the evidence?
And that mechanism is not the same mechanism as per your quote from NOAA that weather patterns in the US were pushing hurricanes offshore.
and this:
Seems everyone is looking at weather and portraying it as long range climate trends, a very unscientific error….
Teach if a hurricane only hits brown people I’d the Carribean does it still count as a real hurricane ?
Funny-“It in no way invalidates global warming predictions…” “The fact that we didn’t score as many runs as we said we would in no way invalidates our prediction of winning the game.” Nice little scam the alarmists have going on there, we see.
The Theory of AGW doesn’t depend on hurricanes, whereas the outcome of a game does depend on runs scored. See the difference?
CO2 added to the atmosphere is causing the Earth to warm. That’s the theory. And it’s supported by overwhelming evidence.
Except it’s not.
A study published by the American Geophysical Union in 2015 said the lack of major hurricane landfalls boiled down to dumb luck rather than a particular weather pattern. “I don’t believe there is a major regime shift that’s protecting the U.S.,†said study lead author Timothy Hall from NASA.
REally now Jeffery this is pure Science…………D U M B L U C K…is their explanation rather then looking at the facts and expressing them for everyone to see.
Secondly I would point out that the currents have cooled not the ocean itself….it is these currents that are the main drivers of weather in the Atlantic. The reason they have cooled is because of the forcing occuring in the antarctic.
One simply has to study the ocean current patterns and the development of hurricanes to understand that a cooling by as much as 1 degree would drastically ALTER the pattern of hurricane development and HURRICANE MOVEMENT PATTERNS.
Strong weather systems in the Americas moving out to sea has altered the pattern of Hurricane movement.
DUMB FUKING LUCK….this is the bullshit that keeps the AGW movement reeling…..Your scientist buddies must be hanging out with Donald Trump too much.
Perhaps you should reeducate them on the proper use of fear mongering semantics.