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Hurricane Season 2005

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/11/29/hurricane.season.ender/index.html

(CNN) -- A brutal and record-setting hurricane season that repeatedly pounded the United States, devastated the lives of tens of thousands and spawned the historic Katrina ends November 30, at least on paper.
Though December storms are still a possibility, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers says, the hurricane season officially runs from June 1 to the end of November.
"The hurricane season is not an on and off switch. If the water is still warm enough, we could still get a tropical storm in December, and this could be one of those years where that could happen," Myers said. (Watch a look at worst year on record --2:27)
A day before the scheduled end of the season, Tropical Storm Epsilon formed over the central Atlantic Ocean.


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Seasonal average
Named storms: 10
Hurricanes: 6
Major hurricanes: 2

2005 season
Named storms: 26
Hurricanes: 13
Major hurricanes: 7
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Up to Epsilon, and it doesn't look finished yet.
 
If only President Bush had signed the Kyoto protocols, then there wouldn't ever be any more hurricanes. :rolleyes:
 
Is it just my imagination, or do storms, major earthquakes and other natural disasters disproportionately strike the most densely populated areas of the Earth?

I realize I'm leaving out undersea earthquakes, mind you, but that tsunami a year ago was caused by one, as I recall.

Is this factually accurate, or do these events simply generate more media attention than similar ones in less populated areas? When was the last time a major hurricane-like storm hit Canada? Alaska? New Zealand?
 
David Swidler said:
Is it just my imagination, or do storms, major earthquakes and other natural disasters disproportionately strike the most densely populated areas of the Earth?

I realize I'm leaving out undersea earthquakes, mind you, but that tsunami a year ago was caused by one, as I recall.

Is this factually accurate, or do these events simply generate more media attention than similar ones in less populated areas? When was the last time a major hurricane-like storm hit Canada? Alaska? New Zealand?
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Media attention... That's it.
 
There must be plenty of tornados that go un-reported in America alone - the ones that hit people and their homes are the ones you hear about.

Surely that's also why, this season, of the 26 named storms, 13 hurricanes and 7 major hurricanes we only got big news coverage of three or four.
 
New Zealand is like Oregon - if it isn't raining, it's just about to.
 
Some of the largest earthquakes occur in non-populated areas, so we do not hear much about them. If the Indonesian quake (something like 8.8 on the Richter scale) hadn't caused that tsunami it would have been at best a couple of lines in the science section of a newspaper.

There are also dozens of active volcanos in the world but we rarely hear anything about them, again because most of them are not near populated areas. A volcano in Africa erupting and killing a few dozen people is not big news, Mt. St. Helens giving off a bit of steam is big news.
 
Including Epsilon, there were 26 named storms this year, surpassing the record of 21 set in 1933. Thirteen of the storms were hurricanes, edging by one the previous record set in 1969.
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Not quite as impressive a year, actually. Probably not even anywhere near the "worst" year, if we had good records that went back far enough.
 
It is obviously the end of the world. Let's look for some more evidence.

Compared to the massive devastation brought on by the Indonesian earthquake and the topical storms, the fact that Texas, New Jersey, Canada, and Europe had 100- to 1000-year floods seems insignificant. But because all these events play a key role in the bigger picture, none of them should be ignored.

I think it's obvious that disasters are going to continue to increase in frequency. The only mystery is whether any significant portion of mankind will realize what is happening. We already know from prophecy that most will not.

In the days that followed the tsunami, several videos from the region made their way to the internet. Much of the footage showed people just standing there as the tidal waves overtook them. Their lack of understanding and of action reminded me of Jesus' description of the lack of spiritual awareness that will cause many to perish in the last days:

"They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and > destroyed them all (Lk. 17:27).
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That debate will continue, but many scientists agree that the present hurricane surge is likely part of a 60-to-70-year cycle that changes the strength of ocean currents distributing heat around the globe. Researchers have used tree rings and ice cores to track this variability back hundreds of years. We're now in a fast-flowing mode of this up-and-down cycle, named the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), during which Atlantic sea-surface temperatures and wind conditions favor hurricane generation. Ten years from now, or perhaps thirty (the timetable is difficult to predict), the cycle should reverse, tending to suppress major hurricanes.

Why the variation? "Frankly, no one can say with 100 percent certainty, but it appears to be a natural effect," says Thomas Delworth, a climate modeler at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Natl Geo. and NOAA: oil company lackeys
 
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I blame David Icke.

From which... "We have had some highly destructive winds in Britain and Europe in recent years"..

Yeah, sorry about that. I've changed my diet now :shy:
 
David Swidler said:
Is it just my imagination, or do storms, major earthquakes and other natural disasters disproportionately strike the most densely populated areas of the Earth?
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I don't know, but human populations are biased towards the edges of continents and by definition lots of bad things happen there: land-sea interface= hurricanes make landfall; subduction zone = earthquakes + volcanoes
 
LTC8K6 said:
Other years?

As the comparison of a high to an average makes it seem?

As 1933?

As 1969?

As some undocumented year way back when?

You may pick 2.
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http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=63066&an=0&page=0#63066
You name it and it's pretty much been a record this season. You'll likely see a complete list come out from the NHC at some point after the season, but included in there are most storms (23 & counting), most cat. 5s (3), most major hurricanes (tied at 7), most hurricanes (13), costliest hurricane (Katrina), strongest hurricane by pressure (Wilma, 882mb), most storms by the end of July (7), and probably a bunch of others. One more US landfall would tie the record for most US landfalling storms in one season with 8.
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a_unique_person said:
http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=63066&an=0&page=0#63066
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"costliest hurricane (Katrina)"

This isn't really a legitimate comparison, since it depends at least as much on where a hurricane makes landful, as it does on how strong it is. A large part of the cost of Katrina had nothing to do with the strength, but with the fact that a major natural buffer has been destroyed over the last few decades; and particularly the fact that most of what it destroyed was below sea-level recovered swampland. Had it hit a less populated part of Lousiana, or gone up into Mississippi or over to Texas instead, the damage costs would have been far less.

It's pretty much just an example of the manipulation of statistics and emotionalist rhetoric of the doom-mongers regarding something that appears so far to be just a maginally higher peak in a roughly 35-year cycle.
 
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