United States on Pace for Quietest Hurricane Decade
As the 2013 hurricane season comes to a close, the United States is on pace for its quietest hurricane decade in recorded history. With just over a month to go in the 2013 hurricane season, no hurricanes had struck the United States this year. If no hurricanes strike the United States during the last—and usually quiet—weeks of the hurricane season, which ends November 30, this will be the second time in four years no hurricanes struck the United States.
Ongoing Trend Only three hurricanes struck the United States between 2010 and 2013. Four years into the 2010s, the United States is on pace for merely seven hurricane strikes this decade. The lowest number of hurricanes to strike the United States in a full decade occurred during the 1970s, when 12 hurricanes struck.
The scarcity of 2013 hurricane activity extended beyond the United States. This year tied an all-time record for the latest date at which a hurricane formed anywhere in the Atlantic basin.
Major hurricanes, registering Category 3 or higher, are becoming particularly rare. It has now been eight years since a Category 3 or higher hurricane struck the United States. The previous record for longest previous time period without a such a hurricane was six years, two months.
Only 28 major hurricanes struck the United States during the past 50 years, versus 44 major strikes during the preceding 50 years.
Warming Reduces Storm Forces “Al Gore and others assert rising global average temperatures will cause more frequent and extreme weather events. This is improbable,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition. “If the world warms due to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures at high latitudes are forecast to rise the most, reducing the difference between Arctic and tropical temperatures. Since this differential drives weather, we should see weaker mid-latitude cyclones. This logically results in less extreme weather, not more.”
Harris pointed out the real-world climate evidence confirms the expected decline in hurricanes and extreme weather events as the planet modestly warms.
“In fact we are already near a 30-year low in worldwide accumulated cyclone energy, something that was not supposed to be happening if the alarming forecasts of government-funded climate models were correct,” said Harris.
James M. Taylor (jtaylor@heartland.org) is managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
We should just do the opposite of anything Al Gore says
I hope he never tells us to keep breathing.
Only if he can make money on it.
I guess you wouldn’t be on the internet then, huh.
No, no, the internet would still be around. After all, its a series of tubes.
Lol. Think if the government had taken over the internet in the early days… smh.
Yay for not dying from hurricanes!
Now that’s a platform I can support!
Finally!
Watch them spin this: “We have LESS hurricanes BECAUSE of global warming. Ignore what we said previously about there being more.”
You can’t win with these people. Global warming has become their religion.
As long as the Prophet Gore doesn’t call any crusades, I think we’ll be ok.
As do all false religions, this one will eventually die.
Eventually, how long will that be?
Just like these climate scientists, my model predicts it will happen only when it actually happens.
Don’t believe what I said then, believe what I say now!
Clearly we just need to stop questioning them.
When was the last time that a “scientific consensus” was so wrong?
As others have state, this wasn’t science, this was false religion.
“This logically results in less extreme weather, not more.”
Climate change fanatics aren’t going to let something like logic get in the way of their agenda.