In less than two months (October 6, 2016) it will be 4,000 days since the last time a major hurricane made landfall in the U.S., which was Wilma on October 24, 2005.
Wilma was a record-setter, being the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record, with peak estimated sustained winds of 183 mph and lowest surface pressure of 882 mb. That surface preesure corresponds to a 13% removal of atmospheric mass in the core of the hurricane compared to normal sea level pressure.
But after the record-setting 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, with a whopping 27 named tropical storms, the bottom pretty much dropped out of hurricane activity since then.
h/t jean
I'm sure it's the wind turbines staving off the hurricanes.
Ontario should be be keeping the tornadoes at bay as well with all the giant blenders dotting former pristine vistas across the province and more being erected.
We'll ignore the fact they are useless for power and kill birds and bats in large numbers, I mean, who needs birds singing and chirping or bats to devour mosquitoes?
The comments (from the Al Gore acolytes) are hilarious. Their ignorance on full display.
The very example of limited comments from the intelligent People who stop by here is indicative of the attention anyone, except those dependent on Tax-Payer funded schemes, pay attention.
However I think SST's (super sonic transport) except for Miltary Needs stopped when the SST Concordes discontinued Trans-Atlantic flights. :))
More inherent contradictions from the progressive set.
Global warming means more hurricanes!
Climate change means fewer hurricanes!
The most reasonable solution I can come up with is Atlantic cooling.
My winter weather prediction. With El Ninio gone causing a cooler Pacific combined with a cooler Atlantic and expanding ice caps - Look out. We are in for some chilly weather. Then we get to hear about CO2 induced global cooling. That means more rich people will fly their jets all over the world in an effort to take cheap energy away from poor people.
This fellow doesn't seem to know what he's talking about. Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast in 2008 and caused 195 deaths. Left me, personally, without power for a week. Seemed like a "major" hurricane to me.
No class 3 or better hurricane in 11 years - a simple fact. Katrina had close to 2,000 deaths and landed in Louisiana as a class 3. Most deaths arose from failing to predict the obvious. Sandy wasn't even a hurricane when it landed in New Jersey and it was the second costliest on record.
We should all stop eating BC salmon till there agree to make all their rivers wild again by removing the hydro dams.
"(This fellow doesn't seem to know what he's talking about.)"
Ed, your comment reads like several of those on Spencer's site. Why is it so hard to realize that you are talking apples to oranges. Spencer repeatedly, and I do mean repeatedly, stated that his article was based on the meteorological definitions (i.e., the accepted definitions) of hurricane strength. These definitions are based upon wind speed at landfall.
Yet, in spite of this repeated definition...... which is NOT related to damages caused..... people such as you continue to object (often in unflattering terms).
What's the matter with you that you can't comprehend this definition?
"(Seemed like a "major" hurricane to me.)"
The amount of damage caused by a hurricane, or tropical storm, or a tornado, or just a simple thunderstorm is CLEARLY related to WHERE they occur and often to the time of day as well. Why is that so hard to grasp? Oh,and soooo very sorry that you lost power for a week (snort).
I think the biggest mistake made by the AGW crowd was to suppose that human modification would automatically shift climate patterns. A second hypothesis was never given much thought, namely, that the circulation would remain the same but components of it would change characteristics. That is what actually seems to have taken place.
This means that any given climate phenomenon will change frequency in ways that relate to air mass boundaries rather than shifts in the circulation.
But also in the background, the Pacific circulation patterns shifted around ten years ago and this has had a suppressing effect on both hurricane and tornado frequency.
I continue to think this is a case of over-reaction to a relatively minor phenomenon (human modification) and that natural variability continues to drive the train. By the time a reliable science of human modification exists, we will probably have used up the oil and gone on to cleaner energy anyway. Then natural variability will hit us with a big old ice age and we'll wish that we were belching out carbon dioxide after all.
Ed -- "major hurricane" is a specific meteorological term referring to hurricanes classified as Category 3 or higher. Which is why Dr. Spencer is technically correct, as he's writing specifically about tropical cyclones that made landfall in the US as major hurricanes.
I agree with you, though -- the "major hurricane" classification might be useful in meteorological circles, but ask anyone in the path of Ike, or Ingrid (during the low-activity 2012 season), or any one of the dozens of tropical cyclones that have wreaked havoc across the Atlantic since 2005 and they'll tell you that they're all "major."
Sure Toking. Lame attempt to change the goalposts while we're not looking. Idiot!