Get out the anti-anxiety medications. The Global Warming alarmists are going to need them. And last year everything was going so well for them: Twenty-seven named storms, destruction on a huge scale, and all of the blame to be placed squarely on the shoulders of the hated Mr (never "President") Bush.
Not so this year. Weather Street reports that so far this year there have been only three named storms, none of them developing into hurricanes. That compares to nine named storms by this time last year. But that's not all the bad news.
Part of the reason for the slow season is that tropical western Atlantic sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are running about normal, if not slightly below normal (see graphic below, which shows SST departures from normal).
In contrast, at the same time last year SSTs in the same region were running well above normal.
The cooler SSTs in the Atlantic are not an isolated anomaly. In a research paper being published next month in Geophysical Research Letters, scientists will show that between 2003 and 2005, globally averaged temperatures in the upper ocean cooled rather dramatically, effectively erasing 20% of the warming that occurred over the previous 48 years.
Now, that's gotta hurt!
The most recent prediction from the National Weather Service (see first graphic, above) is for there to be 12 to 15 named storms by December -- only half of last year's total. It now looks like that prediction might be too generous.
While it is still possible for this hurricane season to end up above normal in activity and reach that forecast, each day that passes without so much as a tropical 'depression' makes that target less and less likely.
Just what are the Global Warming alarmists going to do now?
1 comment:
Hurricane season is still young, but it's looking pretty good. It's nice that people aren't suffering. And people who can't be happy about that... get on my last nerve. Leftist creeps.
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