UPDATED : Calm

[DrLeftover]

The image, taken on September 8, shows no hurricanes, cyclones, or tropical storms in the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian Ocean basin. A total of 14 polar satellite images, also known as swaths, were taken at midday and stitched together to create the stunning view

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2422486/A-rare-moment-calm-Earth-Stunning-satellite-image-reveals-strangely-clear-skies-Atlantic-Pacific-Indian-Ocean.html

 

[Evil Eye]

RE: Calm

Looks more like a White Marble to me.

Interesting pictures for sure.

 

[DrLeftover]

RE: Calm

Do you think they should rewrite at least part of their course?

http://www.amnh.org/learn/climate?gclid=CJaVkNna1bkCFcuZ4Aod5hAAMg

 

[DrLeftover]

RE: Calm

September 30

As we wrap up September, there have been just two short-lived Category 1 hurricanes in the Atlantic. Yet seasonal forecasts predicted an extremely active season. What’s going on?

Before diving into the seasonal forecasts, let’s take inventory on where the season stands.

In an average season, 8 tropical storms, 4 hurricanes, and 1 major (category 3 or higher) hurricane form by this date. This year, we’ve experienced 10 tropical storms, 2 hurricanes, and no major hurricanes.

Though we’ve had close to the average number of total storms, most have been short-lived and/or weak. If you went out for a cup of coffee at any time this hurricane season, you would’ve missed many of them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/09/30/what-happened-to-hurricane-season-and-why-we-should-keep-forecasting-it/

 

[DrLeftover]

New Study: ’2013 ranks as one of the least extreme U.S. weather years ever’– Many bad weather events at ‘historically low levels’

http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/10/18/new-study-2013-ranks-as-one-of-the-least-extreme-us-weather-years-ever-many-bad-weather-events-at-historically-low-levels/

 

[Evil Eye]

Sounds like a nice change to me.

 

[DrLeftover]

That truth would seem to be somewhat inconvenient to certain parties.

But I am sure they can explain it away, and ask for more donations.

 

[DrLeftover]

‘Least extreme U.S. weather year ever?’ 2013 shatters the record for fewest U.S. tornadoes — 15% lower than previous record — 2013 also had the fewest U.S. forest fires since 1984

http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/12/27/2013-shatters-the-record-for-fewest-tornadoes-15-lower-than-previous-record/

 

[DrLeftover]

US In Its Third Straight Year Of Record Low Tornado Activity

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/us-in-its-third-straight-year-of-record-low-tornado-activity/

 

[DrLeftover]

March 2014 Tornado Drought May Set Record

For the second consecutive year, U.S. March tornado counts are among the lowest on record.

Through March 20, only four tornadoes have been confirmed across the nation. According to The Weather Channel's severe weather expert Dr. Greg Forbes (Facebook | Twitter), only two other Marches have featured fewer tornadoes through the first 20 days of March, dating to 1950:

1969: 0 tornadoes
1951: 3 tornadoes

However, the lowest March U.S. tornado count on record dating to 1950 was six tornadoes in March 1951, according to Forbes. If the rest of the month features at most one additional tornado, we would set a record low for the month.

http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/march-tornadoes-may-set-record-low-20140321

 

[DrLeftover]

Meteorologist Brad Panovich: ‘Slowest start to U. S. tornado season on record through 4/17 based on inflation adjusted tornado trend’

http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/04/19/slowest-start-to-tornado-season-on-record-through-417-based-on-inflation-adjusted-tornado-trend/


"Scientists tell us that by continually dumping 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every single day, we are altering the environment in which all storms develop."
- Al Gore

 

[DrLeftover]

You will of course note that this is NOT from those disgusting haters at Fox.

The U.S. has been extraordinarily fortunate lately: we have not been witness to the fury of a major hurricane (category 3 or higher) landfall since October 2005 when Wilma hit southwest Florida as a Category 3 storm. (Other countries have not had such good fortune these past few years. )

Since the hyper-active 2005 season, the U.S. has had just six Category 1 and 2 hurricane landfalls: Humberto (TX), Ike (TX), Gustav (LA), Dolly (TX), Irene (NC), and Isaac (LA). Sandy was not technically a hurricane at its NJ landfall, and if it were, it would have been a Category 1 storm.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/05/30/atlantic-hurricane-season-begins-sunday-will-record-streak-without-major-hurricane-end/


Talk about your Inconvenient Truths... where's all the "More and Stronger Storms"?

 

[DrLeftover]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Excuse me, Mr. Gore, where are all the "more and stronger storms"?

 

[DrLeftover]

".... more and stronger storms....."

Florida has gone 3,270 days without a hurricane – nearly nine years and, by far, the longest stretch on record (the next longest streak is 5 seasons from 1980-1984, in records dating back to 1851).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/10/07/why-floridas-record-setting-hurricane-drought-portends-danger/

 

[DrLeftover]

A week left in the "season".

 

[DrLeftover]

Tame tornadoes: Quietest 3 years for twisters on record

December 13, 2014

The U.S. experienced fewer tornadoes in the past three years than any similar span since accurate records began in the 1950s. Yet meteorologists aren't sure exactly why.

As this year comes to a close, about 150 fewer damaging tornadoes than average have hit the U.S., according to data from the Storm Prediction Center (SPC). Explanations for the decrease in twisters the past three years range from unusual cold to unusual heat, or just coincidence.

Despite the calmer than average years, deaths due to twisters remain near the average of 60 each year, with 68 killed in 2012, 55 in 2013 and 42 so far this year, according to the SPC. That pales in comparison with the 553 Americans killed by tornadoes in 2011.

So far this year, just 348 EF-1 or stronger tornadoes have touched down across the country, marking the third-lowest number on record. An average year sees about 500 EF-1 or greater tornadoes. A total of 364 EF-1 or stronger tornadoes touched down in 2012 and 404 in 2013.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/12/13/tornado-drought/20240063/


Again: "More, and stronger, storms."?

 

[DrLeftover]

2014 a quiet year for weather disasters in the U.S.
29 Dec

The U.S. lucked out again this year, as large-scale weather catastrophes — including devastating and deadly hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires — were few and far between.

Not since Superstorm Sandy devastated the Northeast in 2012 has a single natural disaster cost the U.S. tens of billions in damage, according to a report released today by CoreLogic. Sandy cost the U.S. about $70 billion.

"This is two straight years without big disasters," said Tom Jeffery, a senior hazard scientist at CoreLogic, a private research and consulting company based in Santa Ana, Calif., that provides information and services to businesses and government.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/12/29/natural-disaster-report/20853795/