In article PFf7f.3414$HW5.2224@trnddc04,
Joshua Halpern wrote:

Bob Harrington wrote:
Global Warming @ARMY.com wrote:

Tropical Depression #25 will become RECORD BREAKING Tropical Storm
ALPHA later today.

The festering mass already bigger than WILMA was when it became a
hurricane has been showing an eye-spot on the satellite pictures for
several hours. The National Hurricane Center has recognized this and
designated it Tropical Depression #25. Their first advisory predicts
that it will become RECORD BREAKING Tropical Storm ALPHA later today.
This storm has been expected by weather nerds over several days time.
It is leewards of Wilma, giving it some protection temporarily from
wind shear in the region, but it has been catching some turbulence
from Wima's backwash.

If it gets to Tropical Storm named status it will make this year the
highest in recorded history for cyclones in the Atlantic Basin. If it
gets to Hurricane category 1 it will BREAK THE RECORD for hurricanes
in one season in the basin.

FIVE MORE WEEKS of Hurricane Season.

Enjoy Your GLOBAL WARMING. You bought it. You paid for it. Now you eat
it.


Looks like global cooling in the west Pacific - quick count shows 21
tropical systems there so far this year; last year at this time there
had been 28.

Out of curiosity, what is the average number of storms in the west
Pacific over say the last 10-20 years?


If I'm reading the climatology at Unisys
(http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/...fic/tracks.bwp) right, the
annual totals for tropical systems in the west Pacific have been

1945 26
1946 16
1947 27
1948 28
1949 22
1950 18
1951 17
1952 28
1953 24
1954 19
1955 22
1956 23
1957 21
1958 23
1959 23
1960 27
1961 27
1962 30
1963 25
1964 44
1965 35
1966 30
1967 35
1968 27
1959 19
1970 24
1971 35
1972 32
1973 23
1974 35
1975 25
1976 25
1977 21
1978 32
1979 28
1980 28
1981 29
1982 28
1983 24
1984 30
1985 27
1986 28
1989 36
1990 31
1991 31
1992 32
1993 37
1994 39
1995 35
1996 43
1997 31
1998 27
1999 33
2000 33
2001 32
2002 31
2003 27
2004 34
--
Harold Brooks