Is the Sandy horse dead yet? Or can I keep beating it....?
I believe I wrote earlier about Tornado frequency, now it's time to focus on Hurricane frequency.
NOAA declared that this Hurricane season was the third worst on record. Only 2005 and 1933 saw more hurricanes develop. 2012 tied for third worst with 2011 and 2010.
While there was a very high frequency, the strength was far weaker than in past years. We only had one major storm develop and only for a short amount of time. Hurricane Michael reached category 3 strength for just a few hours.
While the average strength was low, our losses were just the opposite. Hurricane/Super Storm Sandy taught us that we don't need to see massive storms to for us to be hurt, finacially and socially. A huge hurricane doesnt need to barrel down on the US, a super storm can do plenty of damage when it hits in the wrong place.
NOAA also tells that 70% of all hurricanes this year were Atlantic hurricanes, which continues a trend of higer than average Atlantic Hurricanes that has been going on since 1995.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-11-29/news/bal-wx-unusual-hurricane-season-among-busiest-but-lacked-strength-besides-sandy-20121128_1_tropical-meteorology-project-storm-forecaster-hurricane-season
No comments:
Post a Comment