The UN reports unprecedented severe weather, as the US sets a major milestone for mild weather.
On December 4, 2011 it will have been 2,232 days since Hurricane Wilma made landfall along the Gulf coast as a category 3 storm back in 2005. That number of days will break the existing record of days between major US hurricane landfalls, which previously was between 8 Sept 1900 (the great Galveston Hurricane) and 19 Oct 1906. Since there won’t be any intense hurricanes before next summer, the record will be shattered, with the days between intense hurricane landfalls likely to exceed 2,500 days.
h/t to Josualdo
Despite hyperventilation and bedwetting on the part of the alarmists, the climate lately has been relatively benign.
I think it’s worth noting in this context that according to H. H. Lamb, in his Climate, History and the Modern World, the onset of the LIA was evidently marked by storms and flooding. Which, of course, contradicts the extreme events arguments we’re hearing at present. (Also, I don’t think this rules out a decline in the frequency of hurricanes hitting the US, since there are no relevant historical records.)
My pleasure, indeed.
In southern Alberta yesterday, hurricane force chinook winds swept through….it was caused by CO2 low pressure system off the coast of BC, and CO2 high pressure in northern alberta. Some wind gusts of 146 km/hr were recorded at Claresholm Alberta.
I think these exceeded the ‘hurricane’ winds that hit the US eastern seaboard…
but that is just weather…
EPA eyes wild ponies of Chincoteague…
Town fears drastic new erosion rules will destroy island town, economy…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/chincoteague-fears-plan-to-move-beach-will-drive-away-tourists-hurt-economy/2011/11/18/gIQAZTGt2N_print.html
This is in error. The longest stretch of days without a major hurricane making landfall was from 1860 to 1869 according to HURDAT. http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/UShurrs-detailed-2011.html
It was from August 11, 1860, to September 8, 1869 or 3,316 days.