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(Adds quote from forecaster Gerry Bell, details on last major hurricane and Superstorm Sandy) By David Adams May 27 The Atlantic hurricane season will be less active than usual this year due to cooler seas and a strong El Niño effect, the U.S. government weather forecaster said on Wednesday. The official "below-normal" forecast calls for six to 11 tropical storms this year, with three to six reaching hurricane status of 74-mile-per-hour (120 kph) winds, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said at a press conference in New Orleans. There may be as many as two major hurricanes with winds reaching at least 111 miles per hour.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
In other news, August is expected to break a world wide heat record held by the previous record holder of this past July which broke the record held by this past June. But nah the world isn't heating up... Nothing to see here folks.
You see, the OP can point out when a prediction doesn't happen and that therefore overturns all OTHER scientific evidence pointing to CC. That's how it works you see. Those silly scientists and all their evidence don't mean squat. All it takes is one failed prediction and then the theory is done. Don't they know that ChesterJohn debunked them by showing no increase of extreme weather?
El Nino-driven drought and frosts in the normally tropical highlands in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands has brought Tasmania-like weather to the region, a regional administrator said.
Enga province administrator Samson Amean called a meeting with a PNG provincial disaster and emergency committee on Monday after hundreds of villages were found to face months without food from local gardens after being destroyed by frosts.
"The temperature in Wabag in Enga province is about 17 degrees Celsius, but the wind is similar to that I've felt in Hobart," Dr Amean told Pacific Beat.
originally posted by: Subaeruginosa
a reply to: ChesterJohn
Well Papua New Guinea has being having major frosts and drought that's wiping out there crops, creating a humanitarian crisis. This is in the full on tropics too, basically right on the equator line.
Frost and drought wipes out subsistence crops in Papua New Guinea
El Nino-driven drought and frosts in the normally tropical highlands in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands has brought Tasmania-like weather to the region, a regional administrator said.
Enga province administrator Samson Amean called a meeting with a PNG provincial disaster and emergency committee on Monday after hundreds of villages were found to face months without food from local gardens after being destroyed by frosts.
"The temperature in Wabag in Enga province is about 17 degrees Celsius, but the wind is similar to that I've felt in Hobart," Dr Amean told Pacific Beat.
This summer Tasmania will probably have 48 degree heatwaves and wipe out all those poppy farms, lol.
The climate does seem to becoming more and more erratic, if you consider the whole earth, rather than just focusing on your own neck of the woods.
originally posted by: network dude
I must have missed it completely, where in the OP did anyone say it wasn't getting warmer?
ETA:
how long will it continue to warm? will storms continue to be less of a threat? Will the ice caps completely melt? Will the seas rise a few inches, or a few feet? How long will all that take?
There seem to be a lot of unanswered questions for something that we were told the science was settled on.
I think for now, it's perfectly acceptable to ask a few more questions about this subject, don't you?
We also had an ice age in a time where industrialization was non existent.
originally posted by: pikestaff
Yet satellites tell us that there has been no warming for that last 16 years?
Another thing, hottest year ever, do those people deduct the coldest winter ever from the hottest summer? is there an average?
What about the snow in June, still not melted in Buffalo NY, and in the Scottish lowlands? I thought snow melted when it was warm,let alone hot?
Am I reading the wrong weather news blogs?
originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: ChesterJohn
El Nino causes more wind shear in the Atlantic tropics basin which inhibits development of hurricanes in the Atlantic. The Pacific however has had a busy season.
NOAA discusses this when they release their forecast, but go ahead and jump to conclusions based on scanty information.
originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: Subaeruginosa
High elevation is not considered the tropics, despite the latitude. It snows in the mountains of Ecuador too.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
There are models and predictions for all of this. Though it remains to be seen if the models will hold true. There may be some other variables we aren't accounting for.