Getting into impressive territory ...
Posted by LawKat on 7/29/2009, 2:45 am
2009 continues to move up the charts and down the calendar.

If there are no named storms by Saturday, August 1, you would have to go back to 1992 to find a later start than this year.  That year Andrew was named on August 16.

Something I noticed in my research:  Most seasons in the 1980s did not have a named storm until August, with 1984 not getting a named storm until August 28.  The 1983 system did not get a named storm until August 15, and that season was over on September 30, a staggeringly short 46 day hurricane season, with only 4 named storms!

I have felt since 2006, when the season was busy but not blockbuster that we may be seeing a return to previous quiet times.  In 1969, 19 named storms formed.  Then the 1970s got real quiet.  In 1933, 21 named storms formed and then all went normal or below normal.

Will we look at 2005 as the last big bang season and then all went normal or below normal?

It certainly looks so, so far.  I must wonder then, just what would cause such a phenomenon, where one season is off the charts and then the seasons seem they "must recover" over a period of years before things get humming again.  What changes so drastically and then boom, back down?

Thoughts?
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