Hurricane Catrina Article

[michaelwmoss]

This is very interesting. Could this be another sign of Global Warming?

http://www.met-office.gov.uk/sec2/sec2c ... arina.html

[Typhoon_Willie]

Interesting stuff indeed!

[michaelwmoss]

I think if we another storm down there, folks are really going to get nervous. This could mean the other oceans and their corresponding Hurricane season will be more active.

If the next few are that way, eyes will DEFINATELY be opened!!

[HurricaneBill]

I'm still curious as to if it could possibly have just been an anomaly. It could be a rare occurence like Typhoon Vamei in late December 2001. (Typhoon Vamei occured at only 1.5 N latitude.)

Personally, I think Catarina was a storm that slipped through the cracks. what I mean is that she somehow got through the harsh conditions to form.

Who knows? Catarina might be something that happens only once or twice a century. Just because a south Atlantic hurricane has never been documented in the past, it doesn't mean it might not have happened before. After all, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a noise?

If a hurricane forms in the south Atlantic and nobody is around to document it, does that mean it never happened?

I'm not turning a blind eye to global warming, I just don't think we should jump to conclusions.

[michaelwmoss]

No conclusions being made here, just some observant seculation.

I'm sure it has happened before. Shoot look at those storms on the South Pole. Sometimes they make a Hurricane look puny:)

[HurricaneGirl]

There's a first time for everything!

[Stormsfury]

I'm still curious as to if it could possibly have just been an anomaly. It could be a rare occurence like Typhoon Vamei in late December 2001. (Typhoon Vamei occured at only 1.5 N latitude.)

Personally, I think Catarina was a storm that slipped through the cracks. what I mean is that she somehow got through the harsh conditions to form.

Who knows? Catarina might be something that happens only once or twice a century. Just because a south Atlantic hurricane has never been documented in the past, it doesn't mean it might not have happened before. After all, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a noise?

If a hurricane forms in the south Atlantic and nobody is around to document it, does that mean it never happened?

I'm not turning a blind eye to global warming, I just don't think we should jump to conclusions.

Excellent post ...

Since satellites have only documented photographs of the Earth since 1960, who could really say that this hasn't occurred before?

[Guest]

I'm with Bill & SF on this one,this event has probably happened before satellites were up & running.

I'm sure there have been hurricanes all over the world that weren't documented simply because there was no one there &/or no technology to document it.

Just like El Nino is a phenomenon that causes above normal SSTs in the equatorial PAC,maybe occasionally in those waters where Catarina developed, the SSTs warm enough & the atmospheric conditions become favorable enough to squeeze out a healthy tropical cyclone once every 50 - 100 years give or take.

After all there is an ocean there & Brazil has a relatively tropical climate in their summer months.