We be ler'n more 'bout 'Canes
 

Tropical storms for this year are:
Andrea Barry Chantal Dean Erin Felix
Gabrielle Humberto Ingrid Jerry Karen
Lorenzo Melissa Noel Olga Pablo
Rebekah Sebastien Tanya Van Wendy

Quietly moving up the east coast is the second Atlantic tropical storm of the year - Barry. In the Pacific and ongoing is Barbara - also a second tropical storm.

Projection for Barry from the National Hurricane Center:

Thank GOD! Finally some rain. I we could just it to stall out over the coast for about a week we would be good to go.

It's the chav/trailer-park naming theme then, this year?

The should go for the wuss theme. Can you imagine being pummeled by a storm called Arielle, Barnaby, Clarissa, Dillon ... Jervais ... Mortimer ...

i have a sincere sense of foreboding about Olga.

Humberto?

Wendy?

Yikes.

Imagine that, a storm named.... Wendy

The thread title threw me off a little. I expected a big lecture from tw about our lack of understanding of how hurricane seasons vary from year to year. Just heard on NPR the other day that while there is some correlation with average Atlantic temperature, it doesn't match that closely. A better match is the el Nino/la Nina cycle. Got no links for you, as it was just a report on the radio.

Ya, I recently sat through part of a NASA presentation that gave the impression that water temperature was the main factor, but I think you're right about el Nino. They do have some neat tech developing to predict rainfall by looking inside a hurricane now, cool stuff.

Each year tw takes more letters out of his hurricane thread titles. A few more and we'll be looking at something like

B Lrn Mo Canz

Chantal will play nice, but she'll cut you if you cross her.

Here's 150 years of storms.

Great pic Bruce.

And that concentration of Force Five tracks in WestPac correlates with the wellspring of El Nin~o sea current flows, doesn't it?

We wouldn't mind a bit of el fucking nino down this way thankyou very bloody much!

Yeah, the paucity of big-ole-rainy-storm tracks through your latitudes does illustrate that dryness problem in a big way. Anyone have an idea why such hemispheric asymmetry?

There is a lot of talk about el nino, but I don't know if that's true or not. I think we just need rain and there isn't any.