*What on earth are they going to talk about on November 1st, when hurricane season ends? *
Exponentially higher heating costs, as well as $5 gal gasoline due to the hit the refineries have taken.
**Does anyone know of a news channel that is not covering hurricanes? **
Al Jazeera
What on earth are they going to talk about on November 1st, when hurricane season ends?
Britney Spears. Christmas. The recession that the $200 billion handouts are going to cause.
Agreed, it is just like shark bites, all hype no data. And the pres flying to to oversee, simply stupid. It is just like the mayor of Chicago, who ever time a snow flake it sighted releases the entire snow clearling fleet just in case the flake actually hits the ground.
Can you imiagine the reports if we lived between 1900 and 1950.
Not for nothing, but Rita was up to Cat 5 yesterday and headed right to the general vicinity of the worst natural disaster on U.S soil in quite awhile. I think it qualifies as news. However, this is what cable news does. It moves from one big story to the next and smothers you with that coverage so there’s no way anyone could accuse their station of not having as “comprehensive” coverage as another channel.
I guess the coverage has increased partially because the frequency and severity of these storms has increased. However, I do agree that the sterotypical “reporter braving the elements” shot is getting tiresome. I saw one a few weeks ago where Anderson Cooper almost got taken out by a hotel sign getting blown down. So close.
That chart would be a little more useful if it actually was current…
The reading I have done suggests that while the overall total of hurricanes may have gone down slightly or stayed nearly the same, the number of Cat 4 and 5 hurricanes we see annually has nearly doubled worldwide in the last 35 years or so. The link below to the National Weather service says that we have already had 9 hurricanes reach the U.S. since 2001 and we only had 14, 15, and 12 in the previous 3 decades respectively. That data was pre-Katrina,Ophelia,Rita.
I would agree that Katrina and this storm were big news but this has been going on for sometime. Everytime I see a reporter standing in rain, getting half blown over, yelling some inconsequential nonsense, I secretly hope for some form of object to take him out.
Reminds me of Chapelle’s stand up routine where he asks, “Why is the on-site reporter always a black dude?”, and goes into his version of the reporting, ‘And now we’re going on-site with our own reporter, How’s it going out there Reggie?’
Hilarious.
The search for Natilie Holloway will continue.
That chart would be a little more useful if it actually was current…
Best i could find, can you find better?
Exponentially higher heating costs, as well as $5 gal gasoline allegedly due to the hit the refineries have taken.
“Best i could find, can you find better?”
Try the National Weather Service. All I had to do was Goggle “hurricane statistics” and I got the NOAA page with updated stats up to just before Katrina.
***I saw one a few weeks ago where Anderson Cooper almost got taken out by a hotel sign getting blown down. ***
That’s what it will take to finally put a stop to it. Some reporter standing in the wind will get killed, possibly live. Then we’ll get to see the press report on themselves for a couple of days while they self-examine the lack of wisdom in this kind of reporting. There are enough reporters trying this now that it’s bound to happen.
I don’t think it’s that big a deal. A number of journalists have been killed covering the war, nobody complains about that. I’d rather be in a hurricane than on the Afghan-Pakistani border.
U.S. Hurricane Strikes by Decade
Number of hurricanes by Saffir-Simpson Category to strike the mainland U.S. each decade. Decade Saffir-Simpson Category1 All
1,2,3,4,5 Major
3,4,5 1 2 3 4 5 1851-1860 8 5 5 1 0 19 6 1861-1870 8 6 1 0 0 15 1 1871-1880 7 6 7 0 0 20 7 1881-1890 8 9 4 1 0 22 5 1891-1900 8 5 5 3 0 21 8 1901-1910 10 4 4 0 0 18 4 1911-1920 10 4 4 3 0 21 7 1921-1930 5 3 3 2 0 13 5 1931-1940 4 7 6 1 1 19 8 1941-1950 8 6 9 1 0 24 10 1951-1960 8 1 5 3 0 17 8 1961-1970 3 5 4 1 1 14 6 1971-1980 6 2 4 0 0 12 4 1981-1990 9 1 4 1 0 15 5 1991-2000 3 6 4 0 1 14 5 2001-2004 4 2 2 1 0 9 3 1851-2004 109 72 71 18 3 273 92 Average Per Decade 7.1 4.7 4.6 1.2 0.2 17.7 6.0
1 Only the highest Saffir-Simpson Category to affect the U.S. has been used.
This is taken from
THE DEADLIEST, COSTLIEST, AND MOST INTENSE
UNITED STATES HURRICANES FROM 1900 TO 2000
(AND OTHER FREQUENTLY REQUESTED HURRICANE FACTS)
by
Jerry D. Jarrell(retired), Max Mayfield, and Edward N. Rappaport
NOAA/NWS/ Tropical Prediction Center
Miami, Florida
Christopher W. Landsea
NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division
Miami, Florida
Ok updated chart in place, data still holds.
from 1850-1950 we averaged 19.2 hurricanes/decade and 6.1 majors/ decade
From 1951-2004 (5.5 decades) we averaged 14.7/decade and 5.6 majors
Seems to me there has been a rather dramatic decrease in overall and major hurricanes in the last 50 years, lots-o-hype IMO.
Global warming???