Does anyone find it odd that it's September and we haven't had one serious Gulf Hurricane

[LynneSin]

I'm not a metereologist but I do enjoy following the news when it comes to Hurricanes. I've always found that sometime in August the Hurricanes tend to switch from Cape Verde/Atlantic Hurricanes and focus more in the Gulf Region. And yet we've had all these hurricanes in 2010 we've had Five Hurricanes and only one of them came close to any serious landfall (Earl).

Now putting this into perspective one would thing "Woohoo this is a good thing!" mainly because of the destructive nature of hurricanes. But for me, I have to wonder what's messed up with our climate that everything is changed with the patterns of hurricanes. Could this be a sympton of something serious going on with our climate?

[voteearlyvoteoften]

1. We had a late spring this year

I think the huricane season is going to go into October this year. We'll see. Maybe the weather pattern is just lucky and the storms will keep heading out into the Atlantic.

[nebenaube]

4. I suspect that we will have heavy snowfalls

up here in Wisconsin, probably by Oct 18th or so... :(

[Lochloosa]

2. See that mass of clouds just below Cuba.......get ready for that one.

It will be heading into the Gulf shortly

[Recursion]

3. Doesn't oil calm water? NT

[zipplewrath]

9. No, it only appears to

It is a bit of an optical illusion. It doesn't calm the waters, but it floats on the surface and tends to "fill in" the valleys between the water waves. So it makes the waves appear smaller, but it is really just hiding their size.

[Recursion]

10. Interesting. Fluids was the class I was most likely to sleep through

God, I hated that class.

[zipplewrath]

14. Franklin

Ben Franklin did alot of work on this topic. You can learn alot about it from just reading some of his biographies.

[Bragi]

5. We are in one of the El Nino years

I offer the above observation in the hopes that no-one who knows what they're talking about comes along and even politely points out that I'm clueless.

If that happens, in DU tradition, I'll dig in and post dozens of barely-related and unrelated links.

You've been warned.

[sabbat hunter]

actually

we are in a La Nina not an El Nino.

We are in Cape Verde season. The GoM will pick up in october with a storm or two.

[SpiralHawk]

11. Could we be heading into HermaphraNinetto type climate situations?

:sarcasm:

[Bragi]

17. Like the GOP, you're just trying to change the channel !!!

I know I'm right and I'll be back later with links to prove it.

Have to clean my fish tank first.

[sabbat hunter]

25. *Buzz*

wrong!

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html

[sabbat hunter]

26. dupe

dupe

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. god I wish we had the duzys back.

I would nominate your comment.

[AnArmyVeteran]

6. It's eerie. We had Ike then nothing the next year and were almost out of the woods this year too.

[onenote]

7. Not particularly. Some years are more active than others.

There wasn't a "serious" gulf hurricane last year either. As has been pointed out countless times before, its foolish to try to use a single event or even a single season to build a case for/against climate change.

[HERVEPA]

8. Maybe the invisible cloud being decided to be benevolent this year.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. Didn't someone claim a few years ago that more hurricanes were proof of climate change?

C'mon folks, pick a side.....

[zipplewrath]

16. They were wrong

There were people making those claims. And others were trying to "correct" the assertion. Climate change is the BAE of weather.

It doesn't make the hurricanes, it makes the hurricanes stronger.

It doesn't make the drought, it makes the drought drier.

It doesn't make the flood, it makes the flood deeper.

It doesn't make the ice storm, it makes the ice storm colder.

[jdlh8894]

18. Oh, why? I like popcorn!

Actually,Cheney is too sick to fire up his weather machine!:evilgrin:

[Cal Carpenter]

13. While the gulf hasn't been hit there is above-average hurricane activity this year:

"The intensification of Julia into a hurricane brings our activity tally for the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season to 10 named storms, 5 hurricanes, and 3 intense hurricanes. An average season has 10 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 2 intense hurricanes, so we've already had a full season's worth of activity, with about 45% of the season still to come"

From Jeff Masters' blog at Wunderground
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html

[Dappleganger]

15. My favorite weather site!

This Floridian has learned to not ask the OP's question in the middle of hurricane season.

[BeFree]

19. That ought to do it

Do what? Make the ignorant think.

Hurricanes have one natural purpose... move warm air to cold places, like the north pole.

[LynneSin]

20. I definately believe it's an active season

I just hope the activities stick to off in the atlantic away from the main population areas.

[COLGATE4]

21. Living in the Tampa Bay area, I'm just really happy that there

hasn't been. Don't want to question why, don't want to upset the Hurricane Gods...

[Johonny]

23. ? Hurricane Alex first of year was in the Gulf

and made landfall twice.

[SwampG8r]

24. i am in fact

using obeah to keep the skies clear

[Texasgal]

27. Texas just got hit

by tropical storm Hermine. Many areas were devastated by flooding. Austin got 12 inches in ONE day!

Hermine could have been a hurricane had it stayed longer.