http://www.weatherstreet.com/hurricane/2010/Hurricane-Atlantic-2010.htm
After more than 750 days of no hurricanes making landfall in the US, the National Hurricane Center has defined a new type of storm, known as the “narrow escape.”
Hurricane Earl, which became a Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of storm intensity, came the closest by approaching to about 100 miles (160 km) off North Carolina and southern New England last month, Read said.
“That’s a relatively narrow escape if you look at it from the global perspective,” he said.
Read said 2010 was still likely to go down in the record books as another in a string of exceptionally busy seasons.
A few more definitions are in order:
- The “invisicane” – Hurricane Lisa was out in the middle of the Atlantic and obtained hurricane status for a few hours.
- The “mini-major-hurricane.” Hurricane Julia was out in the middle of the Atlantic and obtained major hurricane status for a few minutes before quickly dissipating.
- The “within-error-bounds” tropical storm. TS Nicole
Meanwhile, subtropical storm Otto is running away from home as fast as he can. No doubt this has been an “exceptionally busy season.” Anyone in Florida will vouch for that.
So, a subtropical depression gave birth to a subtropical storm. Now, if it gets just a little bit stronger, will it become a subhurricane?
Which raises another question. Do scientists who are on the public dole become stupid, or were they that way before and found that no private company would hire them?
Here’s an OT moment for you. Check out a post from yesterday (5 Oct) from the chiefio on ice worms — http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/ice-worms/ . One of the questions I leave is, with all the bacteria that’s out there eating oil, why is there still oil in the ground?
I leave is, with all the bacteria that’s out there eating oil, why is there still oil in the ground?
Oil may not be biogenic?
So the average amount of named storms (14ish) is equated to “exceptionally busy seasons”??? Average = exceptional…. okay. What string? Doesn’t that imply consecutive? These guys can’t really believe the stuff they are saying can they?
I like this. Maybe baseball agents can adapt to the NHC kind of thinking and come up with a new stat called “Runs Almost Batted In”. This way agents could make the case for how much “potential damage” their client is able to inflict on opposing teams rather than how much “actual damage” their client inflicted on opposing teams and ask for more money.