Please don't take my post as minimizing the overall event. I'm no stranger to storm damage either! Just making fun of the reporter...
He can't be too distracted--illegal immigrants could be coming through his windows to get him any minute.
Hurricane season is considered June 1 to November 1 so we are almost halfway through it without a named storm in the Atlantic, I think.
We get named storms in June, but the first big storm doesn't usually hit until the end of August/beginning of September.
This. From my experience, we got storms after the school year started. 2004 was the biggest year for hurricanes that I experienced on the west coast. Charley landed, I think, on Aug 13 and Frances landed on Sept 5. Jeane followed
No! Not at all! Just adding to your point. Many folks here were furious with the self serving coverage. It gets worse every storm sadly.
it takes about 10 days for a storm to cross from africa to the US, so unless a hurricane forms tomorrow, which is doubtful, none will impact the US in august. by the way,have lived in florida since 1965.
With the impact of those storms in about a 10 week period, I’ve often wondered how much impact that had on our slow start in the 2004 season. All of them impacted large portions of the state and caused some major disruptions
and Jeane. As I recall, Ivan was a monster, but it hit up in the panhandle, so we were not as close to the damage.
Classic misrepresentation of climate. I say misrepresentation because I almost know for a fact chem isn’t uninformed. One year of non-devastation is clearly an outlier, if it even happens. This year is weather. Thank your sky daddy of choice that poor people aren’t on roofs, agreed. The victory lap is your 60-1 leading at the first turn. Not to mention an absurdly narrow vision of climate, since much of the world is literally burning or desperate for a drink of water.
As a life long Floridian, I almost can’t watch any weather any more. These local so called “meteorologists” sensationalize so much they would make Vince McMahon blush. To listen to these fools you would think we are going to die every day in summer. 60% chance of thunderstorms with possibility of tornadoes? Sorry but that’s been a normal central Florida day for at least the 62 years I’ve been living here
You’re the frog in the heating water water. (TBF, the frog thing is not true; unlike us, they don’t just wait to boil.) Florida Is Getting Hotter And Wetter, According To New Climate Normals
Tornadoes have never been normal in FL, esp not associated with summer T-storm patterns. Other than whatever happens during a hurricane, you usually only get tornadoes when you have a clash between a cold front and very warm/humid air. Usually people associate that with tornado alley, where there can be extreme temperature differences when a cold front blasts through. Some bad tornadoes have reached the Deep South and even FL in recent years. I bet if you looked these “Southern” tornadoes up they all happen in early spring (or in FL perhaps even earlier). The ideal scenario for tornadoes (in FL) would be unseasonable warmth and humidity meeting a strong cold front…cold fronts stop reaching FL after about April.
