Another blow to the Climate Wacko BS - Aug 29

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Another blow to the Climate Wacko BS - Aug 29

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The Climate Change "agenda" says a warming planet should have more hurricanes and tornados each year. They also said all for the ice over the poles should have melted by now and all the polar bears would be dead years ago.

Hurricane Alley Hasn’t Been This Quiet in a Quarter Century
2022-08-29 15:32:39.493 GMT

By Brian K. Sullivan
(Bloomberg) -- The Atlantic crucible of hurricanes hasn’t
had a storm all month and if the calm holds it will stand as the
quietest August in 25 years.

The expanse of ocean between Africa and the Caribbean Sea
has only had a stormless August one other time in more than
seven decades of recordkeeping -- and that was in 1961, said
Phil Klotzbach, lead author of Colorado State University’s
seasonal storm forecast. August typically is the beginning of
the hurricane season’s most-active phase.

“We’re got a chance of making it the entire month without a
named storm,” Klotzbach said. “It is going to be close.”
So far this season, the Atlantic has spun up three storms
with the last one – Colin – forming in early July. Since then,
the region has had a couple of systems swirl up by fail to reach
the threshold for storm status. The US National Hurricane Center
is watching four patches of thunderstorms and rain right now
that could become the season’s next storm.

One system in the central Atlantic has the best chance,
with an 80% probability it will become a storm by Friday.
< This was predicted by Joe Bastardi on his Saturday Summary.

Through the first part of August, dry air sapped any would-
be storms before they could start ramping up. There was also
some wind shear across the basin that tears at the structure of
budding storms.

Typically the Atlantic is most rambunctious from about Aug.
20 to Oct. 1, with the statistical peak coming on Sept. 10. Most
pre-season forecasts called for an active year with more than
the average of 14 storms.

A quiet August doesn’t offer a clear signal on what the
rest of the year will bring. In 1997, there was an El Nino
across the Pacific, which increased wind shear in the Atlantic,
and only seven storms were named.

In 1961, the Pacific was cooler, as it is now, and 12
storms formed, which at the time was above average. Cooler
Pacific waters mean less wind shear across the Atlantic, opening
the door for storm development. Shear is when wind blows at
different directions or speeds at varying altitudes and this can
knock the top off budding hurricanes.

Klotzbach said computer models edged back from calling for
an active September, but he also noted that there are a lot of
vigorous thunderstorms moving off Africa – the building blocks
of hurricanes – which could mean storms are imminent.
“But I’m certainly not guaranteeing anything at this
point,” he said.
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The storm now building in the mid-Atlantic is expected to go up the East Coast if it does become a hurricane.
Dan Steffens
Energy Prospectus Group
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