Kirk is adrift, Leslie is lost, and Invest 97L is a hair west of Cape Verde and likely to follow them around the central Atlantic. Milton burned out fast after a CAT 3 landing (Sorry, climateers – no Cat 6 superstorm), making a mess, but that’s what hurricanes do, and a lot less often than they used to, but we still get them.
Climate change has not entirely erased hurricanes from our weather landscape.
Some facts regarding Hurricanes might help them,
- Tampa is undergoing its longest period in recorded history without a major hurricane strike. The last one occurred in 1921.
- Florida recently underwent a 10-year period without a hurricane strike of any size (ending in 2016), which is by far the longest such period in recorded history.
- From 2009 through 2017, the United States experienced fewer hurricane strikes than during any other time period in recorded history.
- The United States recently underwent a record 12 years without a major hurricane strike of Category 3 or higher (2005-2017).
- Globally, satellite measurements show hurricane frequency has been in decline for the past 35 years, continuing a trend that goes back more than 100 years.
“The message” of Hurricane Milton is that while global warming/climate change is causing a remarkable decrease in hurricane activity, climate change isn’t making all hurricanes disappear.
Failing to share these facts of science might make one a science denier or a climate denier, and we wouldn’t want that, so be sure to share them where necessary to balance incomplete reporting from the misinformed, disinformed, and malinformed weather commies.
While you’re correcting the record, North Carolina had massive hurricane flooding in 1916, a year with significantly less CO2 and significantly more hurricanes. It was a busy year.
In 1916 three major hurricanes crossed into the contiguous U.S. land region with two additional other hurricanes making land strikes as well thus totaling five inland hurricane strikes in all.
In 1916 the deepest land strike into the U.S. was Hurricane Number 14 which came up from the Gulf of Mexico and reached into and across the states of Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and ended in Illinois as shown on the map.
Apparently the “hurricanes” of 1916 did not know that future “climate change” was needed to allow hurricanes to reach that high into the U.S.
The 2024 season isn’t over yet, and while the storms coming off the coast of Africa haven’t produced much US storm traffic, the Gulf of Mexico has created or saved a few beasts, of which Helene and Milton were two. There’s still time, and I see a storm over Central America that could prove troubling. But even if we catch up to 1916, the CO2 lifestyle attacks still don’t make any scientific sense, nor should they – even the IPCC (a cabal of climate alarmists) says any connection is subject to debate.
