You can’t make this stuff up.
09/06/2012
By Brian McNoldy
Michael: first major hurricane in super active Atlantic season
Michael unexpectedly exploded last night, becoming the 7th hurricane and the first major, category 3 storm of the Atlantic 2012 season. The only seasons on record that reached 7 hurricanes sooner were 1886 and 1893.
During the summer of 1886, the US was hit by seven hurricanes, including two major hurricanes. By contrast, during the summer of 2102 the US was hit by (possibly) one minimal hurricane. It has been seven years since a major hurricane hit the US.
The only reason they think they are finding a lot of hurricanes in 2012 is because they have vastly more sophisticated equipment for detecting hurricanes in the mid-Atlantic, and because they have greatly relaxed the standards for calling something a hurricane.
The map below shows the 2012 “hurricanes” – the vast majority of which were in locations where they would not have been detected in 1886. Comparing the current season to 1886 is an ugly historical abomination.
File:2012 Atlantic hurricane season summary map.png – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When satellites help the global warming meme, they must be hyped (hurricanes)
When satellites hurt the global warming meme, they must be challenged (temps)
Expand the climate laws 🙂
We have been promised even better detection by the National Hurricane Center for upcoming seasons. We thus should expect even more named storms. There is no 30 mph wind anywhere in the Atlantic that will go undetected again!
Will someone put TS Nadine out of its misery? It’s been wandering around just south of the Azores for 10 days now – I think it’s lost.
(An interesting note: Nadine is likely to top the table soon for ACE this year so far, simply because it’s been around for so long)