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This wasn't expected..... https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-hurricanes-for-first-time-in-65-years-as-cyclone-activity-stops-98phndpzx After a hectic start to the Atlantic hurricane season, cyclone activity around the world has come to a sudden halt, leaving seas eerily silent and scientists stumped. For weeks, the oceans have been quiet and the tropics devoid of cyclones. Not one hurricane-strength storm has formed since October 29. This has happened only twice since 1966, Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University, told The Washington Post. and...... ........... Anyone care to comment? |
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I did notice this - I am unsure when the last Atlantic Hurricane was and it's a surprise given how warm the Atlantic has been this season esp the tropical regions. |
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Originally Posted by: tallyho_83  I did notice this - I am unsure when the last Atlantic Hurricane was and it's a surprise given how warm the Atlantic has been this season esp the tropical regions. Another thing to consider is that there is also a weak to moderate La Nina in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean which normally promotes the formation of Atlantic hunnricanes and dampens down the formation of any Pacific hurricanes. I can therefore see why we've not been seeing any Pacific hurricanes just lately, but this just makes the recent lack of Atlantic hurricanes even more puzzling as I would have thought that La Nina would have made this less likely to happen. |
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh. |
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Originally Posted by: tallyho_83 I did notice this - I am unsure when the last Atlantic Hurricane was and it's a surprise given how warm the Atlantic has been this season esp the tropical regions. It's a particular surprise when we are reasonably told that global warming temperatures will lead to more and increasingly strong hurricanes. |
"The professional standards of science must impose a framework of discipline and at the same time encourage rebellion against it". – Michael Polyani (1962) "If climate science is sound and accurate, then it should be able to respond effectively to all the points raised…." - Grandad "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts". - Bertrand Russell "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.”- Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat Dave,Derby |
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Originally Posted by: polarwind It's a particular surprise when we are reasonably told that global warming temperatures will lead to more and increasingly strong hurricanes. The evidence is that when hurricanes do form they are intensifying more quickly than previously and becoming stronger. The situation regarding the actual number that form is less clear. There will continue to be considerable year to year variability in the number that form in particular months as there are several factors that can dampen or enhance formation in the short term.
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Originally Posted by: polarwind It's a particular surprise when we are reasonably told that global warming temperatures will lead to more and increasingly strong hurricanes. We had the 3rd highest number of named Atlantic storms this season  |
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Originally Posted by: Essan
We had the 3rd highest number of named Atlantic storms this season
When I 'collected' train numbers, a 'namer' always carried much more importance than a train with no name! Don't you agree? |
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Old news, but thought this piece on the coldest recorded winter in Antarctica worth putting here. Between April and September, a research station sitting on a high plateau in Antarctica, registered an average temperature of minus 78 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 61 degrees Celsius). That's the coldest temperature recorded since record keeping began in 1957, and about 4.5 F (2.5 C) lower than the most recent 30-year average, according to The Washington Post. The previous record for the coldest winter was minus 77 F (minus 60.6 C) in 1976, Stefano Di Battista, a journalist wrote on Twitter. The Post learned of this record through Battista, but then confirmed the information with Richard Cullather, a research scientist at NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office from - https://www.livescience.com/south-pole-coldest-winter-record Is this just a blip? |
"The professional standards of science must impose a framework of discipline and at the same time encourage rebellion against it". – Michael Polyani (1962) "If climate science is sound and accurate, then it should be able to respond effectively to all the points raised…." - Grandad "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts". - Bertrand Russell "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.”- Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat Dave,Derby |
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Originally Posted by: polarwind Old news, but thought this piece on the coldest recorded winter in Antarctica worth putting here. Between April and September, a research station sitting on a high plateau in Antarctica, registered an average temperature of minus 78 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 61 degrees Celsius). That's the coldest temperature recorded since record keeping began in 1957, and about 4.5 F (2.5 C) lower than the most recent 30-year average, according to The Washington Post. The previous record for the coldest winter was minus 77 F (minus 60.6 C) in 1976, Stefano Di Battista, a journalist wrote on Twitter. The Post learned of this record through Battista, but then confirmed the information with Richard Cullather, a research scientist at NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office from - https://www.livescience.com/south-pole-coldest-winter-record Is this just a blip? Did you create this thread as a shop window for your entrenched and dubious climate change skepticism?
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Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 
Did you create this thread as a shop window for your entrenched and dubious climate change skepticism?
Not at all. I've always been fascinated with extreme, unusual and outstanding weather events over the planet - think of thunderstorms, snowstorms, hailstorms, very cold and very warm periods, very wet and very dry periods. And you do know that I'm not a sceptic as you would describe it - my position is that there is and has been recent global warming and CO2 plays its part. I just rationalise that historical and climatological evidence confirms that there are other causes to climate change other than CO2. The question to answer for me is what proportion of global warming is the result of CO2. All that of course can be and has to be discussed elsewhere.  |
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Originally Posted by: Rob K Wow! Certainly very strong winds and tornadic in my eyes. Quantum will know. |
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Originally Posted by: polarwind Not at all. I've always been fascinated with extreme, unusual and outstanding weather events over the planet - think of thunderstorms, snowstorms, hailstorms, very cold and very warm periods, very wet and very dry periods. And you do know that I'm not a sceptic as you would describe it - my position is that there is and has been recent global warming and CO2 plays its part. I just rationalise that historical and climatological evidence confirms that there are other causes to climate change other than CO2. The question to answer for me is what proportion of global warming is the result of CO2. All that of course can be and has to be discussed elsewhere. Sweden, apparently, recorded one of its coldest temperatures in decades just recently: https://twitter.com/ZdenekNejedly/status/1464912308812103686 And rumour has it that Australia is currently going through its coolest November since the late 90s. |
Ireland 2022 Monthly Average/D.F. 81-10. May: 12.3c / +1.4c June: 13.7c / +0.4c
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Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea Well, of course, there will still be new records set for coolest/coldest but the evidence shows that the records are falling predominantly at the other end of the scale, i.e. warmest/hottest. Plus, of course, record droughts and floods, both of which are associated with disruption to normal weather patterns. 
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Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea Something to do with the Antarctic's coldest winter ever recorded maybe? |
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Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White Well, of course, there will still be new records set for coolest/coldest but the evidence shows that the records are falling predominantly at the other end of the scale, i.e. warmest/hottest. Plus, of course, record droughts and floods, both of which are associated with disruption to normal weather patterns.
All very true. |
Ireland 2022 Monthly Average/D.F. 81-10. May: 12.3c / +1.4c June: 13.7c / +0.4c
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Originally Posted by: polarwind Something to do with the Antarctic's coldest winter ever recorded maybe? No doubt that was a big factor I'd say. What will be interesting to see is how long that cold will last. |
Ireland 2022 Monthly Average/D.F. 81-10. May: 12.3c / +1.4c June: 13.7c / +0.4c
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Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea I saw a post on Twitter a couple of weeks ago showing snow right down to sea level in Hobart. Pretty unusual for mid-November, akin to mid-May in the northern hemisphere. Tasmania is of course a pretty chilly part of the world with nothing but cold ocean between it and Antarctica. I was there in January one year, the height of summer, and missed some decent snowfall across the highlands by a week. |
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