Upcoming hurricane season looks to be another bad one

[gulfcoastliberal]

WASHINGTON -- Brace yourself, coastal America. The hurricane season that begins June 1 may be worse than the last two, said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center. And the last two were doozies.

There are several reasons:

# A historic cycle in which there have been more hurricanes and storms with great intensity.

# La Nina effect -- unusually cold Pacific Ocean temperatures that spawn more hurricanes in the Atlantic.

# Possibly, global warming or other environmental causes.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060303/NEWS07/603030448/1009

[cdsilv]

1. There's already been one tropical storm in the south atlantic...

only lasted a few hours, but it was there nonetheless...

[shance]

2. Bush/Cheney/Navy whipping up the HAARP sonars again.

How convenient to have such a facility at their disposal.

[phantom power]

3. I wonder if we'll have to wait until June.

[phantom power]

4. Current ocean surface temps

For comparison, I really wanted to get a map from this time last year, and 10 years ago. At any rate, any sea surface temp above 26C is considered favorable for tropical storm formation and maintenance. You can see that large portions of hurricane alley are already there. Wonder what they'll look like in Augst?

[gulfcoastliberal]

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