Where are the hurricanes? 2007 edition
Jun 25th, 2007 by Moonage
Scientists predicted another huge hurricane season. Just like they did last year. Only problem with last year was there were basically no hurricanes. They told us to not stop worrying tho, 2007 was going to be intense as well. Sure enough, before the hurricane season could even start, along came Andrea and Barry. Both fell apart pretty quick and no harm was done. But, the weird thing is, that’s been it. Since late May, we’ve had none. No warnings, no false alarms, nothing. I thought I was the only person noticing this, but Livescience finally had to ask what happened to all those storms. Their research led them to find out that June is typically a slow month, but watch out around August and September. I’ll go along with that. 2005, the new standard, saw only two named storms in June. So, we’re sorta on target. It seems real quiet right now. But, as they point out, it’s still early. If we’re still only at 2 by the end of July, then we’ve got something to chew on.
Note that Andrea was a subtropical storm, and the highest wind speeds it had were 45 miles per hour. It should not have ever been a named storm, and was likely only named for political purposes: to make it seem as though the hurricane season was starting early.
I had noted Andrea previously: http://space.moonagewebdream.com/2007/05/10/subtropical-storm-andrea/
Although Andrea was a yawner, Barry barely made tropical storm status for part of one day. So, to say the least, counting these two “named” storms is giving the scientists the benefit of the doubt. I agree totally with you, ten years ago neither would have been named, if even noticed.
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