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Originally posted by Stompbox
I'd like to add that it's interesting that some of these big winter storms we've been getting lately are being tracked by hurricane hunters, and some of the storms pressure levels (if I remember right), we're lower than some hurricanes we've gotten.
Originally posted by jadedANDcynical
Been doing some reading on and off about a variety of subjects at an equally wide range of sites. I came across this study published in 2010:
African Dust Influence on Atlantic Hurricane Activity and the Peculiar Behaviour of Category 5 Hurricanes
From the abstract:
We identify the formation of Category 5 hurricanes occurring mainly around the decadal minimum variation of African dust and in deep water areas of the Atlantic Ocean, where hurricane eyes have the lowest pressure. According to our results, future tropical cyclones will not evolve to Category 5 until the next decadal minimum that is, by the year 2015 +/- 2.
And looking at the statistics for 2011, we can see that there was not a Cat 5 storm in the North Atlantic, and only 2 Cat 4 storms.
Timeline of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season
Will be interesting to look back at the end of this season and see if it holds true.
Storms
TS Alberto
TS Beryl
1 Chris
TS Debby
2 Ernesto
TS Florence
TS Helene
2 Gordon
1 Isaac
TS Joyce
2 Kirk
1 Leslie
3 Michael
1 Nadine
TS Oscar
TS Patty
1 Rafael
3 Sandy
TS Tony