{"id":216712,"date":"2022-09-01T14:01:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=216712"},"modified":"2022-09-01T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T12:01:39","slug":"despite-media-claims-atlantic-hurricane-season-sets-records-for-inactivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=216712","title":{"rendered":"Despite Media Claims, Atlantic Hurricane Season Sets Records for Inactivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We previously covered the lack of Atlantic hurricane activity last week at Climate Realism<\/em> with \u2018Hurricane Season Slowest Start in 30 Years\u2019 \u2013 Media Spins \u2018Damage Control\u2019 Stories.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, with August ending, and with no named storms in the Atlantic, according to records, this is the first August since 1997 to not feature any named tropical storms or hurricanes and only the 18th time on record going back to 1851.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This graphic from the National Hurricane Center shows that the only activity is some areas of rain and thunderstorms that \u201cmay\u201d go on to be a tropical storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data shows that globally, hurricane counts have remained unchanged since 1980. The year 2021 featured the fewest in that record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further showing a lack of activity, we are now just one day away from having the lowest year-to-date Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index in the North Atlantic Ocean basin since 1941<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press<\/em> seemed to think the worst is yet to come, and had this to say in Calm before storms? Oddly quiet Atlantic despite forecasts:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A record-tying inactive August is drawing to a close and no storms have formed, even though it is peak hurricane season and all experts\u2019 pre-season forecasts warned of an above normal season<\/a>. Nearly all the factors that meteorologists look for in a busy season are there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warm ocean water for fuel? Check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a lot of wind shear that decapitates storms? Check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Nina<\/a>, the natural cooling of the central Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide and increases Atlantic storm activity? Check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet zero storms formed. Surprised experts point to unusual persistent dry air and a few other factors. But each time they and computer simulations think something is brewing, nothing comes of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite what the Associated Press says, hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0the reason for such low activity is the upper-level winds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Philip Klotzbach of Colorado State University\u00a0summed up the failure<\/a>\u00a0of earlier forecasts claiming an \u201cabove normal hurricane season<\/a>\u201d in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If only the media could be so humble. Up until a few days ago, they were still insisting that hurricane season will be busy. You can bet though as soon as the first named storm happens, they\u2019ll be back to blaming it climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post\u00a0Despite Media Claims, Atlantic Hurricane Season Sets Records for Inactivity<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0ClimateRealism<\/a>.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

via ClimateRealism<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 1, 2022, By Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite Media Claims, Atlantic Hurricane Season Sets Records for Inactivity – ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, with August ending, and with no named storms in the Atlantic, according to records, this is the first August since 1997 to not feature any named tropical storms or hurricanes and only the 18th time on record going back to 1851.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":216714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-216712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-21.png?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-Unm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":215940,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=215940","url_meta":{"origin":216712,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Hurricane Season Slowest Start in 30 Years\u2019 \u2013 Media Spins \u2018Damage Control\u2019 Stories","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"27\/08\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"But when science fails to produce accurate forecasts, who should we follow then?","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1261.png?fit=1200%2C763&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1261.png?fit=1200%2C763&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1261.png?fit=1200%2C763&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1261.png?fit=1200%2C763&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1261.png?fit=1200%2C763&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":232394,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=232394","url_meta":{"origin":216712,"position":1},"title":"Atlantic Hurricane Season 2022","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/12\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Total for both all hurricanes and major hurricanes are close to the lowest on record.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/041467_2021_24268_Fig2_HTML.png?fit=1200%2C726&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/041467_2021_24268_Fig2_HTML.png?fit=1200%2C726&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/041467_2021_24268_Fig2_HTML.png?fit=1200%2C726&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/041467_2021_24268_Fig2_HTML.png?fit=1200%2C726&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/041467_2021_24268_Fig2_HTML.png?fit=1200%2C726&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":420977,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=420977","url_meta":{"origin":216712,"position":2},"title":"Atlantic Hurricane Season\u00a02025","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/01\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"By far the most complete and robust data we have for hurricanes is for those which have hit the US coast. The US Hurricane Research Division, which is part of the Federal agency NOAA, have data going back as far as 1851. According to them, hurricane data is pretty reliable\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Atlantic Hurricane Season\"","block_context":{"text":"Atlantic Hurricane Season","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=atlantic-hurricane-season"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQNQjjXjEchEt8PH6BUA5CzyQwvjuBh7BLKw7e3mxeI-BXCg02t4Ebxu13GaLV187gsAp8zLOY0pbktHwuik-A3hoo0xvh-w-V_BGN7WwCd_0T56WyFGWRjqdXhlEC_5cLfZQS7JnW5ZVPo0oLrFO2IREMsXlA.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQNQjjXjEchEt8PH6BUA5CzyQwvjuBh7BLKw7e3mxeI-BXCg02t4Ebxu13GaLV187gsAp8zLOY0pbktHwuik-A3hoo0xvh-w-V_BGN7WwCd_0T56WyFGWRjqdXhlEC_5cLfZQS7JnW5ZVPo0oLrFO2IREMsXlA.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQNQjjXjEchEt8PH6BUA5CzyQwvjuBh7BLKw7e3mxeI-BXCg02t4Ebxu13GaLV187gsAp8zLOY0pbktHwuik-A3hoo0xvh-w-V_BGN7WwCd_0T56WyFGWRjqdXhlEC_5cLfZQS7JnW5ZVPo0oLrFO2IREMsXlA.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQNQjjXjEchEt8PH6BUA5CzyQwvjuBh7BLKw7e3mxeI-BXCg02t4Ebxu13GaLV187gsAp8zLOY0pbktHwuik-A3hoo0xvh-w-V_BGN7WwCd_0T56WyFGWRjqdXhlEC_5cLfZQS7JnW5ZVPo0oLrFO2IREMsXlA.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQNQjjXjEchEt8PH6BUA5CzyQwvjuBh7BLKw7e3mxeI-BXCg02t4Ebxu13GaLV187gsAp8zLOY0pbktHwuik-A3hoo0xvh-w-V_BGN7WwCd_0T56WyFGWRjqdXhlEC_5cLfZQS7JnW5ZVPo0oLrFO2IREMsXlA.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":417032,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=417032","url_meta":{"origin":216712,"position":3},"title":"Northern Hemisphere tropical activity in 2025","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/12\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Second year in a row with below-normal tropical activity across the Northern Hemisphere\u2026 western Pacific Ocean leads the way with its seventh straight down year\u2026no hurricanes hit the US for the first time in a decade","rel":"","context":"In \"Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE)\"","block_context":{"text":"Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=accumulated-cyclone-energy-ace"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0Screenshot-2025-12-11-193344.png?fit=1200%2C672&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0Screenshot-2025-12-11-193344.png?fit=1200%2C672&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0Screenshot-2025-12-11-193344.png?fit=1200%2C672&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0Screenshot-2025-12-11-193344.png?fit=1200%2C672&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0Screenshot-2025-12-11-193344.png?fit=1200%2C672&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":232442,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=232442","url_meta":{"origin":216712,"position":4},"title":"Despite Prediction 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season Fizzles Out Below \u201cNormal\u201d","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/12\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite Prediction 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season Fizzles Out Below\u00a0\u201cNormal\u201d","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-75.png?fit=975%2C501&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-75.png?fit=975%2C501&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-75.png?fit=975%2C501&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-75.png?fit=975%2C501&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":212211,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=212211","url_meta":{"origin":216712,"position":5},"title":"Bloomberg Is Right, the Hurricane Season Is Off to a Slow Start","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/08\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent article in\u00a0Bloomberg\u00a0discusses the slow start to the Atlantic hurricane season this year. Despite this, Bloomberg points out government forecasters are not yet willing to change their predictions that the Atlantic will see an above-average hurricane season. The article, \u201cHurricane Forecasts Trimmed on Slow Start for Atlantic Storm Season,\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/00tree-g8edd4f6f5_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/00tree-g8edd4f6f5_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/00tree-g8edd4f6f5_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/00tree-g8edd4f6f5_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/00tree-g8edd4f6f5_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216712"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216723,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216712\/revisions\/216723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}