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Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal

Posted by Soulskill on from the act-now-while-supplies-last dept.

MatthewVD writes "The National Hurricane Center reported today that the combined energy and duration of all the storms in the Atlantic basin hurricane season was 30 percent above the average from 1981 to 2010. At Weather Underground, Dr. Jeff Masters blogs that record low levels of arctic ice could have caused a 'blocking ridge' over Greenland that pushed Hurricane Sandy west. Meanwhile, Bloomberg BusinessWeek says, 'it's global warming, stupid.'"

3 of 448 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Nonsense....look at the 1950 hurricanes in the by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Informative

    They limited their dates to 1981 onwards. You'd have had a point if they'd gone back to 1961, but they didn't even get close to this alleged period they supposedly removed from the stats.

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  2. Meanwhile, back in April by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Dr. Jeff Masters blog at wunderground.com:
    April 5, 2012 - "Expect one of the quietest Atlantic hurricane seasons since 1995 this year, say the hurricane forecasting team of Dr. Phil Klotzbach and Dr. Bill Gray of Colorado State University (CSU) in their latest seasonal forecast issued April 4. They call for an Atlantic hurricane season with below-average activity"

  3. Re:Sure it is by ideonexus · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. I haven't read that one and neither of you since Peter and the Wolf is a 1936 classical composition by Sergei Prokofiev, where the boy beats the wolf at the end and rescues his animal friends.

    I believe what you meant to refer to is the Aesop fable of the Boy Who Cried Wolf .

    Thanks for playing though.

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