First hurricane in a decade hits the mainland US, Hermine quickly peters out to a tropical storm

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by Zachj7

Your post needs many corrections. First, Sandy was a hurricane but because it was so far north in the Atlantic very late in the season, it lost much of its tropical appearance, but still slammed the area with hurricane forced winds, high storm surge, and torrential rains. It was not a tropical storm when it hit land. It was post-tropical. In other words, it was a strong cyclone. Second, Hermine struck Florida weaker than Sandy did. Third, hurricane climatology is partially a function of oscillations in sea surface temperature around the world and pressure anomalies. Right now, these anomalies suggest the Atlantic will have a lower than average hurricane count, however, these same anomalies mean hurricanes may be higher elsewhere in the world. At least you vaguely noted that. Lastly, it's normal for hurricanes to weaken over land. There are very few cases of tropical cyclones strengthening over land and the processes to enable it to strengthen are different than the processes that occur over water.

Hurricanes have sustained winds of at least 74 mph. No place on the east coast received them, and only a few locations on the east coast had gusts at or above 74 mph, with none reporting 80 or above.

Sandy wind speed map: See how strong gusts were across N.J. | NJ.com

The big problems with Sandy wee population density and storm surge.

It was a really bad and significant event; however, Sandy was a tropical storm and given this new title of Super Storm to sound sexy on the news.

[sanspeur]

Originally Posted by Spartacus713

For the first time in ten years, a hurricane has hit the continental United States. And for those who didn't know, "Superstorm" Sandy was not a hurricane, it was just a tropical storm, which is why the media invented the sensational term "Superstorm," so they could sensationalize and financially capitalize on that tragedy.

Of course we all remember back to the time of Hurricane Katrina and then Hurricane Ike. The AGW hystericalists were hyperventilating in wide eyed fashion about how that was just the beginning and that if we did not submit to huge tax increases and increased control of our economy by leftists around the globe, that devastation was sure to follow.

Bwahahaha.

As usual, the prediction models of the leftist funded shills posturing as scientific "experts" were spectacularly wrong and just the opposite happened. Not that all hurricane activity has ceased worldwide - it hasn't - but the activity has not been anywhere close to fulfilling the predictions of doom and disaster that these power-seeking propagandists promised.

So finally the hurricane drought in the mainland US is over. This category 1 storm petered out quickly, but it still hit land harder than tropical storm Sandy did. So much for the predictions of the AGW alarmists.

Hopefully it will be at least another decade before we see another one.

You must be living in an altered reality, either that or you think that hurricanes only count if they make landfall in the US...

Thirty major hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones occurred in the northern hemisphere in 2015; the previous record was 23 (set in 2004). Twenty-five of those storms reached category 4 or 5, well beyond the previous record of 18.

North Central Pacific—14 named storms and eight hurricanes formed or moved into the region. (The previous record for the region was four hurricanes in 1982.) Five of this year’s storms reached category 3 or above. Records Fall in 2015 Cyclone Season : Image of the Day