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Figure: Global Hurricane Frequency (all & major) -- 12-month running sums. The top time series is the number of global tropical cyclones that reached at least hurricane-force (maximum lifetime wind speed exceeds 64-knots). The bottom time series is the number of global tropical cyclones that reached major hurricane strength (96-knots+). Adapted from Maue (2011) GRL. |
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Busy but not generally severe, so far.It was a busy year, for Tropical weather events, In Houston, it looks like the rain for Beta has passed.
I ended up with about 11 inches of rain for the 48 hour event, but again Houston has a really good flood control system.
The only real issue was that people insist on driving in the emergency flood control channels,(Roads).
The news people say "Turn Around, don't drown!" quite a bit, Here it can be life saving advice!
Good point! if our criteria to name a storm has changed, the the actual count of named storms is rather meaningless.The "record season" is not really a thing.
No, 2020 Was Likely Not a Record Hurricane Season
HURRICANES NOVEMBER 13, 2020
". . . In a recent From the Stacks podcast, Dr. Neil Frank, who served as director of the United States National Hurricane Center longer than anyone before or since, said the criteria for declaring a weather front a name tropical storm has loosened in recent years. Frank says under the old system, many of the named storms in 2020, particularly tropical storms of short duration, would not have been given names.
In fact, the way storms were discovered, monitored, tracked, and whether they were named, has changed a great deal over the past 50 years, with records from the first half of the 20th century and before being understandably incomplete. Research indicates many storms that would now be counted as “tropical storms” and thus named, were not even known to have existed because they were of short duration at sea, with no ships having encountered them. Before the advent of weather radar, satellites, and storm-tracking airplanes, storms at sea were discovered and named only if a ship encountered and reported them. . . . "
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