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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s late summer. This is when hurricanes are supposed to happen.

A LACK of hurricanes right now would be something to be concerned about. [/quote]

??? Please explain.[/quote]

Several reasons, none good:

1) a lack of tropical storm activity in late summer could indicate cooler ocean temps, possibly due to changes in ocean currents or cooler temps overall in the tropics.

2) cooler temps in Saharan Africa, with less tropical waves being spun off into the ocean to become tropical storms.

3) MOST serious/scary scenario - tropical systems stir up the surface waters of the ocean, and remove heat. This is a good thing. Because warm water feeds hurricanes. If there aren’t any, that ocean water continues to pile up a reserve of heat (from the sun). At some point, when a storm finally DOES come along, it will be far more intense because of all the available heat energy. This is the worst case (other than ocean currents changing long-term)

More frequent small storms keep the amount of heat stored in the ocean at a level that doesn’t allow massive storms to develop. It’s like a controlled burn in a forest, that spares the mature trees, to clear out the dead wood every few years, instead of allowing it to like up and cause a massive wildfire that burn everything.

It’s way, wayyyyy better to have a couple dozen tropical storms and small hurricanes in a season, than 6 massive ones.

More smaller storms are much less destructive than a few massive ones.

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