Monday, October 12, 2009

Is El Nino behind spate of Pacific typhoons?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/07/weather.storms/index.html#cnnSTCText

Named storms, are a notoriously poor metric for measuring the ferocity of tropical seasons. Since September 1 we have seen eight tropical cyclones, five of which became typhoons, two reaching Super Typhoon status, the strongest classification of tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific. With all of the recent deadly storms in the news, it may seem has though this year as been more active than a normal year. 2009 has actually been below average.

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