Where are the hurricanes?

[aaron]

Have there been any hurricanes in the Atlantic this year? How about tropical storms? I know people will say that I'm going to jinx it, but this is starting to freak me out. Really hot weather, unseasonably warm winters, will this place be sand in 50 years? Anyone here know if any weather experts are saying this is a bad trend or just a normal cycle?

[Conveyor Belt]

it's a heat wave. We haven't had one in a few years. I can't really remember the last time we had several days in the 100's in a row.

We've had one named storm that I remember... maybe two, but both just fumbled around in the atlantic.

Save for this week, this summer's been great. Low to mid 90's the whole time.

[amanda]

You just had to mention the "H" word, didn't ya! :) Watcha doin? Asking for it? LOL.

[Butterball]

They're coming !!!! They're coming !!!!

[justme]

STOP... I am getting married in less than three weeks. What are you trying to do? I want to go to my honeymoon in the tropics without a hurricane!!!!!!!!! SHHHHHHHH!

[justme]

I just want you to know that I just went and looked. My honeymoon would be in the dominican republic.....
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/145027.shtml?tswind120#contents

Great- hopefully the beach won't be covered with trash.

[58ford]

Have there been any hurricanes in the Atlantic this year? How about tropical storms? I know people will say that I'm going to jinx it, but this is starting to freak me out. Really hot weather, unseasonably warm winters, will this place be sand in 50 years? Anyone here know if any weather experts are saying this is a bad trend or just a normal cycle?
Though the liberals don't want you to believe it the current climate is perfectly normal. Back in the '70s we had a heat wave like this one, temps over 100 for weeks at a time, coincidentally it happened just a couple of years after hurricane Camille, it was so hot my brother & I were only allowed to play outside in the morning. The milder summers will be coming back you just have to wait a couple of years & ignore the doom & gloomers who are just trying to scare you into voting for Al Gore.

[Fish-Bait]

Too bad WB just posted Tropical Depression number four....it's headed to the carribean....Aaron, see what you did.

[IGID]

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070813/NEWS01/70813015/1002

There it is. You jinxed it. Just don't ask when another one will enter the Gulf or hit Ms..

[amanda]

Now only thing they have to do is name it "Aaron". :)

[ComputerDude]

Asking why we haven't had hurricanes is like asking why we haven't had the twice-yearly infestation of love-bugs.
If it's something you don't miss, don't talk about it. :laugh::laugh:

[58ford]

Now only thing they have to do is name it "Aaron". :)
If they named it Aaron, and it threatened the MS Gulf Coast, could we just troll it off?

[eyescene]

I was just thinking that the other day.........glad I didn't ask!

[aaron]

Who knew I had this kind of power. I make this post and it's announced an hour later.

[amanda]

Who knew I had this kind of power. I make this post and it's announced an hour later.


Maybe you should consider starting a thread on why we all haven't won the lottery yet? :)

[aaron]

Maybe you should consider starting a thread on why we all haven't won the lottery yet? :)

Ohh no, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I hear so many bad "I won the lottery and look at where I am now" stories that I've figured out that it must come with a bill of sale for your soul to Satan.

[eyescene]

Ohh no, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I hear so many bad "I won the lottery and look at where I am now" stories that I've figured out that it must come with a bill of sale for your soul to Satan.

I know I saw that on Dish and how their whole life was changed for the worse. I actually felt sorry for the one old man who was so paranoid he set up cameras everywhere to see who was trying to get him and his money. Didn't he end up back on disability? :smt102

Hubby said he wouldn't change his....heck it would change mine!!! OH yell I'd own the biggest farm I could afford and have them cows 2 miles away from my house instead of 100 feet. Oh yell I'd change.

[amanda]

Ohh no, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I hear so many bad "I won the lottery and look at where I am now" stories that I've figured out that it must come with a bill of sale for your soul to Satan.


I'll take my chances, thanks. :smt118

[Guru]

Before we began this season NOAA and all our other contacts for weather had predicted a less severe Hurricane Season for 2007.
So far this has come true. We have seen fewer and those were not as strong.
Those that have ventured in this direction have petered out as rain storms or twisted off toward the Northern Atlantic away from our mainland. It isn't often but every few years we see a cycle of those storms that cause some damage even into the Carolinas but even the Eastern Seaboard has been spared this season.
My interpretation of this is the amount of strong High Pressure systems we have experienced as evidenced by the droughts in the central to upper parts of the state. This is representative to most of the South although few areas have felt the drought effects that Central Mississippi has.
Strong high pressure systems that are large and cover the South Eastern mainland are the force field that deflects entry to storm systems.
As we speak we are in the midst of a large high pressure system and I seriously doubt we will see a storm path other than rain into the Southern United States.
However, this could change as seen historically with Hurricane Juan.

[Conveyor Belt]

What you SHOULD have done is open it up for council and community discussion, and then we'd have been debating about when one was going to form for the next three months. Bagels would have been eaten, MHLF would have emerged, people would threaten to take their toys home, people would be magnanimous, and the whole time we'd never decide on a hurricane, so there wouldn't be any...

[aaron]

What you SHOULD have done is open it up for council and community discussion, and then we'd have been debating about when one was going to form for the next three months. Bagels would have been eaten, MHLF would have emerged, people would threaten to take their toys home, people would be magnanimous, and the whole time we'd never decide on a hurricane, so there wouldn't be any...

And if there were a hurricane formed, no one would care about it since it didn't form the way they wanted it to.

[Baloo]

CB and Aaron, now that's funny! :laugh:



Am I wrong to want a little bitty hurricane so it will water everything really well for us? :smt103

I really do hope that we never have to go through another Katrina again...