hurricanes

[te_express]

and they try and tell us that global warming isnt happening. global temperatures and, more relevantly, the gulf's temperature has been rising steadily for years. two category 5 storms in the matter of a month (even though katrina got downgraded it was still a cat. 5 for a day or so). only three cat 5s have hit land in the US in the last 100 years!

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[deaconray]

yeah, I've been hearing this argument alot... but look at the number of huricanes per decade that hit the gulf this century, and then look at the number that hit in '90-'00. THIS is the norm... we just have been lucky for the past 15 years. I'm not saying no global warming... but the gulf stream current and the jet strem have ALWAYS made for lots of big, mean spiraling storms.

[te_express]

its not necessarily the number of hurricanes im commenting about, its the strength of the ones that do form. hurricanes go through 15-20 year cycles concerning the number of them. at least they have for the mere 100 years we have been collecting data. never have 2 cat 4 hurricanes hit in one year. the minute they get into that gulf they just get so strong. this rita one went from a depression to a cat 2 in less than 24 hrs and from a cat 2 to a cat 5 in less than 24 hrs too. im not so sure that that is the natural timespan for a storm to get so strong. used to be the only times a storm approached being anywhere near a cat 4 it was a depression only a few hundred miles off africa.

[te_express]

hey, your dad is leaving beaumont, right?