A rather quiet Hurricane season in ’05, where did all the fear mongering “tipping pointers” go? Noticeably absent, any quote from Al Gore or a single global science climatologist. Sadly, these folks have to be upset that more damage wasn’t caused. My prediction still stands, eventually there will be a powerful Hurricane will hit the East Coast or the Gulf.
Here’s a story from just prior to Hurricane Season ’06 to give folks a frame of reference for how bad things were supposed to be this year.
BY THE NUMBERS
9: The number of named storms this year
17: The number of named storms predicted May 31 by a team at Colorado State University led by Professor William Gray
45 mph: The wind speed when Tropical Storm Alberto hit the
Florida Panhandle near Adams Beach on June 13, the strongest winds over
Florida all season
56 percent: The average homeowner rate increase Citizens Property Insurance Corp. requested even after no hurricanes struck Florida
27 percent: The Citizens rate increase approved to start Jan. 1
$100 million: Estimated damage in the United States from Tropical Storm Ernesto
0: The number of storms that formed in October, the first
time since 2002 that no storms formed that month. Also, no Category 4
or 5 storms formed this year for the first time since 1997.
