Not looking good out in the Atlantic

[alant]

>Alex Becomes First January Hurricane Since 1938

We were Caribbean from 2004 to 2010, 2005 had the most hurricanes ever and the most Cats 10's, Ivan was the most famous one that year, there was also a hurricane in January 2006.

Caribbean not classed as Atlantic though.

 

[AndrewB]

:ambivalence:
Well, I probably wanted to say this: "Zeta...formed in December 2005 and continued into Jan 2006. Alex is, and has been singled out as, the first to form in January since all those years ago. Clearly some purveyors of news have been careless with that distinction."

In other words, that anyone who described Alex as the first hurricane to form in January since umpteen years ago was perfectly correct.

So, what about Hurricane Alice in January 1955? It formed in December but was not rated a hurricane until January - hence the 'A' designation.

 

[GHA]

However, you can already spot information spin in the news claiming the water was 0.5 to 1 degree warmer than it should be and obviously this temperature increase was caused by global warming.

Without doing any looking, the only references I've been aware of have been to El Nino, not global warming.

 

[Gallant Spirit]

hopefully anyone crossing in small craft is well south

 

[ziacek]

Without doing any looking, the only references I've been aware of have been to El Nino, not global warming.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/unusual-hu...s-linked-climate-change-warmer-waters-1538078

 

[macd]

So, what about Hurricane Alice in January 1955? It formed in December but was not rated a hurricane until January - hence the 'A' designation.

If I remember correctly from trawling through various reports of Alex, at least one stated that it was the first since '55 rather than '38, so you have an ally there.
The opposite view might be that the weather system that later became Alice formed in December...

Both, I hope we can agree, are somewhat semantic perspectives...especially for any poor sods who happen to be at sea with them. Also in the real world, they'll perhaps serve to remind us that crossing from, say, the Canaries in Dec/Jan isn't always going to be the proverbial milk run.

 

[emmalina]

Try this -
windyt.com