2008 Atlantic hurricane season

[Jason]

Man, they really got pummeled this year.  Maybe Mother Nature was trying to rid Cuba of Castro?

[gatorback]

The big question is:  Is the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season over now?

[Ocklawaha]

It should  be seen with  caution that the old Hippie song - UNA PALOMA BLANCA - was writen by a Jacksonville man.

OCKLAWAHA

[Matt]

Man, they really got pummeled this year.  Maybe Mother Nature was trying to rid Cuba of Castro?

Ha, yes, since Father Time isn't really performing his job well...

[gatorback]

Ha. I'm thinking the TD around Cuba is going to die making this the last official day of activity of the season.  Unless, of course global climate change has something else in mind for us. Could be.

[gatorback]

This pretty much sums up what we've been following all season.

Tim Brown
Reuters

The Colorado State University experts, whose forecasts are followed closely in energy and commodity markets, had originally predicted 13 tropical storms in the 2008 season and said seven would strengthen into hurricanes.

In a revised forecast in August, however, it said it expected a total of 17 tropical storms with nine strengthening into hurricanes.

The season, which ended on November 30, turned out to be one of the most active on record and produced 16 tropical storms, eight of which became hurricanes. It spawned a record number of consecutive storms that struck the United States, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Five of the 2008 hurricanes were "major" at Category 3 strength or higher, according to NOAA.

The season tested the New Orleans levees rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina, hammered the Texas oilpatch and killed 800 people in Haiti.

A record of three major hurricanes tore into Cuba during the 2008 season, causing an estimated $10 billion in damage on the communist-ruled island as they destroyed or damaged nearly half a million homes and flattened sugar cane and tobacco fields.

The Colorado State hurricane research team said its forecast for the 2009 season was based on factors including warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures that create favorable conditions for cyclones.

"We are currently in an active period for Atlantic hurricane activity," Gray said in a statement.

"This active cycle in the Atlantic basin is expected to continue for another decade or two at which time we should enter a quieter Atlantic major hurricane period."

[Doctor_K]

Ergo:
Let "heightened Atlantic basin hurricane activity" = a
Let "(cyclical) active period for hurricane activity" = b
Let "global warming theory" = c

If active hurricane seasons are cyclical, yet active hurricane seasons are caused by global warming, would it not be stated then that global warming is cyclical?  (or if a=b and b=c, then a=c)

[Charleston native]

Of course not, Doctor K. Because of man and his eeeeeevil ways against "mother nature"...

we.........are going............to die!!!!!!!!

[gatorback]

It will be a slow death.  It will come by water.  Then fire.  Trust me. Run.