The 2005 Hurricane Season Ends
The 2005 Hurricane season ended yesterday, the 30th November. But don’t tell Mother Nature. Tropical storm EPSILON was still alive some 600 miles to Bermudas east.What a lineup of storms we had in 2005 Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Dennis, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harvey, Irene, Jose, Katrina, Lee, Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Philippe, Rita, Stan, Tammy, Vince, Wilma, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. So many that we ran out of names in the alphabet and had to resort to using the Greek one. First time that has ever happened!
Now the “experts are predicting at least 10 years more of the same…….or worse!
"We're 11 years into an active hurricane cycle, and history shows that they last anywhere from 20 to 30, even 40 years at a time," said Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md.
Now the scientists are saying that the Gulf Stream has slowed by as much as 30% over the last decade. Now that could really mean trouble. The Gulf Stream carries warm tropical water north between America and Bermuda up towards Europe. The cycle then repeats itself over and over again.
As the north gets warmer the fresh water melt from the Arctic ice sheets make it less saline which in turn makes it harder for the cooler water to sink thus slowing down the engine that drives the current.
Remember the movie The Day After Tomorrow. Well the experts say climate change can not happen so fast. They have been wrong before!
Others have a theory that instead of global warming we are in the start of a global ice age. Now when you think about it that makes sense. The earth is warming up and the ice is disappearing from the North and the South poles at an alarming rate. So fast that sealevals are rising and threating coastal communities.
It would be wise to remember hurricane Katrina and the more 1,300 lives that it claimed. The storm also caused more property damage than any hurricane in U.S. history. I think we can only expect more of the same in the future. And as the globe warms up even more, the weather can only get worse.
Look out 2006!
posted by lostinthetriangle @ 5:53 PM
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