Posted by: JeffMasters, 4:03 PM GMT on May 26, 2012 +31
The second named storm of this unusually fast-starting 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is here. Subtropical Storm Beryl formed Friday night, a few hundred miles east of the South Carolina coast, from an area of disturbed weather that had moved from the Western Caribbean northeastward. Beryl’s formation marks the first time since the hurricane season of 1908 that two Atlantic named storms have formed so early in the year. The only other year with two storms so early in the year was 1887. Records of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic extend back to 1851.Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog : Subtropical Storm Beryl forms | Weather Underground
Translation : the dearth of hurricanes in recent years has forced NOAA to become very aggressive at naming storms. 1908 was one of Hansen’s ten coldest years, so this has nothing to do with global warming
McKibben tweets :
@billmckibben: Beryl a tropical storm, first time in 108 years we’ve had two storms this early in season http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html
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Translation : McKibben can’t do math
h/t to Marc Morano
Oh, Brother.
So, it’s come to this…. insanity.
Didin’t they first start naming subtropical storms only a decade ago? Before that they were just numbers. So not only are they finding storms they previously might have missed, but are naming storms they previously would have ignored and call that evidence of increased activity!
You can’t pass gas on a boat anymore without NOAA slapping a name on the result.
Shame on them in 1908 for not having dopplar radar so they can discover and name more storms!