2024 Hurricane Season

[Big Tyme]

BTW
"Back in these early days, storms were really just named on a whim. Connecting a name to a storm didn’t imply all that much about the storm–and it still doesn’t. In 1903, as a friendly gesture, a first officer gave the name Wragge to a monsoon. But when public figures opposed his projects, Wragge tacked their names onto storms, allowing him to take pleasure in reporting certain politicians as “causing great distress,” or “wandering aimlessly about the Pacific.”

[HelmutVII]

In case you missed it. There was a storm named Gordon that formed in the mid Atlantic a fuzzeled out today. It did not impact any land mass. The only way we knew anything about it was by weather satellites. Fifty years ago we would have never known the storm existed. Technology is one of the reasons why we know about so many more storms today. They have always existed we just didn't know about them.

[Turbine]

I don't know how these storms go through the alphabet twice, three times back to back.

While I was in Hawaii there was Hone, Gilma, Hector in the Pacific. Two H storms and a G.

I come home and the same letters are being used.

[Big Tyme]

In case you missed it. There was a storm named Gordon that formed in the mid Atlantic a fuzzeled out today. It did not impact any land mass. The only way we knew anything about it was by weather satellites. Fifty years ago we would have never known the storm existed. Technology is one of the reasons why we know about so many more storms today. They have always existed we just didn't know about them.

Ships existed fifty years ago.

[HelmutVII]

Ships existed fifty years ago.

right but they saw the weather and avoided it with radar. Ships did not name storms or predict their movement. The captains saw them on the radar and avoided them.

While there may have been weather satellites they were not as sophisticated as they are today. Today anybody can go to a website and see time lapse satellite imagery that shows cloud movement and temperature. None of that was available 50 years ago.