Regarding NHC's decision to name Cindy . . .
Posted by
Gianmarc on 7/21/2011, 9:51 am
We saw many Greek alphabet storms in the wild season of 2005 that spawned or sustained themselves over cooler waters, some of which reached hurricane intensity while others maintained tropical storm intensity for unbelievably long amounts of time and against all known odds. Tropical Storm Zeta formed in late December and sustained its intensity into January, while Hurricane Epsilon reached peak intensity of 85 mph on December 5. Obviously, these systems flourished over cooler waters.
I don't recall much debate over whether those systems should have been named or whether they were subtropical, and I do think it is important for us to have a historical document of events like these as they stand a chance of educating us on a few things.
In particular, events like Cindy or the Greek storms of six years ago may suggest that the climate is currently undergoing some sort of transformation in which patches of the Atlantic that tend to be cooler year round are becoming more capable of sustaining tropical systems, for instance. And if that is the case, why might that be?
I recall that particular question coming up in either the 2004 or 2005 season when storms formed father north in latitude and farther south in latitude than ever previously recorded. Why were storms forming or thriving over parts of the Atlantic that previously had never sustained a tropical system?
We also had a Subtropical Storm Nicole in 2004. In recent years the NHC seems to have taken greater care to designate subtropical systems as such, and I believe they would have done so with Cindy had this system truly been subtropical. |
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