Climate Change anyone: Two Cat 5 hurricanes made landfall

[malaise]

in two weeks.

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This year marks the first time in recorded history that two Category 5 storms (Felix and Dean) have made landfall in the Atlantic basin in the same year. Since reliable record keeping began in 1944, there have been 27 Category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic. Eight of these have occurred in the past five years.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=777&tstamp=200709

The real terrorists are those who ignore climate change.

[Swamp Rat]

1. k&r

[rndmprsn]

2. on top of that mexico was hit by two hurricanes at the same time

...felix in the east and another on on the pacific coast!

has that happened before?

[malaise]

3. Don't know

but the signs are there for all to see.

[populistdriven]

4. Felix set a record for most rapid time to Cat 5 from a named storm.... Ever

[Fleshdancer]

7. it freaked me out!

I took a few days off from reading or watching the news and then suddenly there was a new cat 5! I had to re-read the article a few times to make sure I wasn't going crazy.

[lpbk2713]

5. Nope, first time for that too.

I heard a National Hurricane Center rep mention both factoids on the news last night. I hope he still has a job today.



And NOAA continues to predict an above normal hurricane season .....

Link: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml

[Mabus]

11. I've heard at least weather people say it hasn't happened before

at least in recorded history. Henriette and Felix hit the same day.

[paparush]

6. Two CAT 5 storms in about 2 weeks...

[backscatter712]

8. But...

They only hit countries full of brown people, so they don't count!

:sarcasm:

[slackmaster]

9. Major hurricanes hitting the American tropics in August and September???

I am shocked, SHOCKED!!!

[progressoid]

10. Hey, these thing go in cycles.

I heard that on Bortz, so it must be true.