1914= one storm?

[hurricanetrack]

I know that we did not have recon and satellite data, but 1914 really had only one storm? Wow. That was apparently also around a pretty deep solar output minimum if I understand correctly. Either way, one is an awfully low number.

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... index.html

[HURAKAN]

In the re-analysis nothing was found in 1914 to indicate the presence of another storm or storms. One is possible, we saw only four in 1983, but it's also very possible that there were one or two more that were not intercepted by any ships or didn't make landfall.

[Ed Mahmoud]

I know that we did not have recon and satellite data, but 1914 really had only one storm? Wow. That was apparently also around a pretty deep solar output minimum if I understand correctly. Either way, one is an awfully low number.

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... index.html

I wonder if the onset of WW 1 that Summer promoted radio silence from ships at sea.

[hurricanetrack]

Oooooh, good thought. Seriously, that is a good line of thinking. Very nice.

I cannot imagine there only being 1 named storm in any year. Even 4 like 1983 would probably drive a lot of us crazy. We love tracking these things- hate it when they hit land and hurt people but we anticipate each season so much that having only 1-4 named storms would be insane.

[Hurricanehink]

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/metadata_1911-14.html#1914_additional In the re-analysis, they found two systems worth investigating. One was an extratropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico in September, and the other was estimated to have been a tropical depression. So, technically, 1914 has two tropical cyclones, but only one storm in HURDAT, since the best track doesn't include systems that peaked as a TD.

[HurricaneBill]

I wonder if the eruption of Mount Novarupta in 1912 had something to do with it?

[tolakram]

Possible.

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/volcanoes/vol ... age=basics

... On the afternoon of June 6, 1912 .... Although almost all the magma vented at Novarupta, most of it had been stored beneath Mount Katmai 10 km away, which collapsed during the eruption. Airborne ash from the 3-day event blanketed all of southern Alaska, and its gritty fallout was reported as far away as Dawson, Ketchikan, and Puget Sound [see fig. 21 in original text]. Volcanic dust and sulfurous aerosol were detected within days over Wisconsin and Virginia; within 2 weeks over California, Europe, and North Africa; and in latter-day ice cores recently drilled on the Greenland ice cap."

[Ptarmigan]

1914 probably had at least 4 storms. There are probably fish storms most likely. Also, I believe we were coming off of an El Nino that time.