US could be hit with 9 major
hurricanes this year, experts say
by
Jackie Salo
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/12/2019 12:40:52 PM
Hurricane season may be more turbulent than usual with as many as nine severe storms expected to hit the US this year, according to experts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned Thursday that “above-normal hurricane activity” has been predicted for hurricane season, which will run until Nov. 30. In the forecast, five to nine hurricanes are expected to hit stateside, with at least two of those classified as “major hurricanes.” There are also 10 to 17 named storms—which have winds of 39 miles per hour or greater—anticipated for the region. On average during the season, there are 12 named storms,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/12/2019 12:43:28 PM (No. 150020)
Or three or 28. WE DON'T KNOW.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Phantomll 8/12/2019 12:45:52 PM (No. 150023)
The headline states that there could be 9 major hurricanes, but according to the article, at least two will be major. So, which is it 9 or 2?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/12/2019 12:46:24 PM (No. 150026)
Fear mongering
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/12/2019 12:50:55 PM (No. 150030)
It's all money in the bank for NOAA, it's Hurricane Center, and climate change agenda.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 8/12/2019 12:55:51 PM (No. 150036)
And the Dodger's will play the Astro's in the World Series!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/12/2019 12:56:43 PM (No. 150037)
Living in South Louisiana, this is something we watch, or at least we used to. Since they've been wrong so many of the past years, and the weather channel seems to be in collusion with them, we just prepare as we usually do every June through November and watch the local weather guessers. We've actually become pretty good at predicting the paths by watching local weather.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/12/2019 12:58:41 PM (No. 150040)
I watched the Weather Channel this weekend and they were showing how unusually dry, stable air was blowing off of the Sahara Desert and inhibiting any tropical storm development. There was absolutely no evidence on any storms in the forecast - let alone a full-blown hurricane.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/12/2019 1:02:40 PM (No. 150047)
Or we could not.
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Serious question...how frequently are these predictions actually correct?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/12/2019 1:20:47 PM (No. 150063)
10 to 17 named storms, and 9 major hurricanes. What? The United states will only get hit with major hurricanes? Their numbers don't make sense. Storms with 39 MPH winds or greater? They are counting tropical depressions. Those aren't hurricanes.
Gotta hype all that gosh darned global worming, don'tcha know, and blame it all on Trump.
Anymore, I just turn off the news. Its not news anymore. Its propaganda.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Northcross 8/12/2019 1:20:56 PM (No. 150065)
Headline writer and editor should be fired. 5-9 named storms, 39mph or higher, is not 9 major hurricanes. Ignorance. Sensationalism. Fake news.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
droopydog 8/12/2019 1:21:25 PM (No. 150067)
The eastern Pacific (which I watch closely) has been pretty quiet this year. They are almost always wrong on these predictions, even just the general prediction of above or below average numbers of storms. The forecasters are never held to account, even for an entire career of inaccurate predictions.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Quigley 8/12/2019 1:27:35 PM (No. 150076)
It’s August and it sure is hot here in Dallas: global warming.
Nice breeze though: hurricane.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Ben Around 8/12/2019 1:33:32 PM (No. 150083)
Their models supposedly can predict the temperature within 1 º in 100 years. They should be able to predict where and when these 9 hurricanes will strike.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 8/12/2019 1:40:32 PM (No. 150096)
Or zero, or 4.
Bullshirt smoke and mirrors...."predicting the weather" beyond 36 hrs is fantasy. Do they have a bag of colored pebbles, bones and feathers- dump them out and the patterns will tell the future. All the witch docs are experts with this.
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As usual with these stories they fail to mention what these "experts" predicted in previous years, and how that prediction compared to what actually happened.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 8/12/2019 2:22:56 PM (No. 150133)
The weather channel has been going nuts this year. I saw a few weeks ago that they have labeled their recent hurricane watches as ‘2019, Season of Suspense’ or something like that. Fear mongering is right.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jacksin5 8/12/2019 2:23:18 PM (No. 150134)
Until I see Jim Cantore out standing in the rain, it ain't a major hurricane.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Clinger 8/12/2019 2:39:43 PM (No. 150162)
So in conclusion, to be safe, you had better reinforce the notion that my phony baloney job actually matters by paying close attention to my every word. That is all.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/12/2019 2:41:33 PM (No. 150166)
Uh huh. . .
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/12/2019 2:44:45 PM (No. 150171)
Re 18. It's ratings that drive their hyperbole. Oh, I guess most are also global warming alarmists but it's the ratings they want so they hype the least tropical depression as a future Cat 5 hurricane.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/12/2019 2:56:51 PM (No. 150184)
And where were these "experts" when we went 13 years without ANY hurricanes?
Declaring oneself to be an expert does not make one an expert. "Dr." Irwin Corey declared himself to be The World's Foremost Expert - - and these clowns are a bigger joke than even that.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Wendybird 8/12/2019 3:01:19 PM (No. 150193)
I guess we should be happy that experts predict hurricanes, since experts also predicted that global temperature change would have extincted us by now.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
farmwife 8/12/2019 3:40:26 PM (No. 150221)
39 mph? Are you kidding me? We'd have to go into triple alphabets to have enough names around here.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Wary American 8/12/2019 3:51:54 PM (No. 150235)
"EXPERTS"? The same ones calling out the mantra 'climate change'...those?
Talk about I R R E LE V A N T.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
red1066 8/12/2019 3:54:50 PM (No. 150236)
This has something to do with the weakening of El Nino. Less wind shear gives storms a chance to gain strength. We're heading into the peak time of year for hurricanes, but nine storms is a lot. We'll see. I think that estimate of nine storms is too high.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/12/2019 4:39:05 PM (No. 150263)
That's great news! My motorcycle trip to Florida is ON.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
HotRod 8/12/2019 5:47:17 PM (No. 150322)
The Weather Channel is pushing the Climate Change agenda, so I would take anything from it with a few grains of salt.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Rivetjoint 8/12/2019 6:00:35 PM (No. 150332)
As my old fifth grade teacher used to declare, doctors and weather people are just good guessers.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/12/2019 6:07:41 PM (No. 150341)
#28; Be careful; it MAY show in Florida, too.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/12/2019 6:27:50 PM (No. 150361)
I seem to remember, right after Katrina, that the experts were telling us that we would have several of that category hurricane every year in the immediate future. And then....nothing. For years.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 8/12/2019 6:34:13 PM (No. 150366)
Or not. Regardless, they'll continue to be wrong practically every year, so that they can justify their paychecks. They know full well there's no accountability in government.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
stevendm 8/12/2019 6:55:05 PM (No. 150374)
What other profession allows a person to be wrong 75% of the time and still keep their job?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/12/2019 7:07:06 PM (No. 150380)
“Experts say” - disregard all after.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
varkdriver 8/12/2019 8:22:39 PM (No. 150438)
Yeah, and I "could" finally get a return phone call/e-mail/text from Salma Hayek!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
kono 8/12/2019 9:29:00 PM (No. 150480)
Just disaster mongering. The US could be hit with 3 major asteroids this year, too. Or we could be hit by 20 stupid democratic presidential cand ... oops, that one's already happened.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
jpdkas 8/12/2019 10:11:54 PM (No. 150495)
This reminds me of my middle son. He would slyly say everything has a 50-50 chance...."It might or it might not". :)
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The same wrong predictions every year. NOAA should be investigated for collusion with the homeowners insurance industry/racket, which each year uses the bogus predictions to increase premiums, pocketing the wealth when doomsday fails to occur.