It runs until November 30th.
Last year we got off easy …
at least relative to the active epoch we are in:
Its 9 named storms were the least since 1997.
Compare that to hyperactive 2005
when 28 names storms came alive in the tropics.
Will this year be an unwelcome repeat?
The old metric – drawn with pinpoint precision on the map – was the Russian Roulette Wheel of where the hurricanes made landfall, and at what strength.
This year the metric has undeniably changed:
It’s whether and how close and what happens when the tropical systems – both storms or hurricanes – churn up the waters near the spill of the Deepwater Horizon instead.
All of a sudden 2005 doesn’t seem so bad.
3 comments:
What a nightmare this oil gusher is for the Gulf Coast. I'm really worried about the wetlands and the long term effects.
It's not good: the world needs more scrupulous people along every link of the chain to ensure stuff like this doesn't happen. Hopefully the damage can be mitigated, where possible reversed, and to never let it happen again. But that's thinking in the future: First thing first is to seal that well.
It'll definitely be interesting to see what 2010 brings us. I was living in NC when the last round of hurricanes hit Florida in 2004. I kinda felt like a traitor being that I'm from Florida.
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