Tag: Hurricanes
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Counting Historical Tropical Cyclones (Part I)
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Sounds great, but…it turns out that nobody knows for sure how many TCs there were before we began tracking them with satellites in the late 1960s. Before then, just a subset of TCs were actually recorded in the history books – typically by ships or when the storm came ashore. Others were “fish storms” that…
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Do Seasonal Hurricane Forecasts Have Value?
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Do government agencies like FEMA use seasonal forecasts to move equipment, budget for the response, or otherwise make any decisions? Does the general population see a seasonal forecast and then change what they do and how much they spend in their preparation for the season? Do local governments perform any planning based on these forecasts?
