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Have There Been More Hurricanes In Recent Years Because of Technology?

     Have there been more hurricanes in recent years? Is that from climate change? Or is it just an advancement of technology? The National Hurricane Center's Christopher W. Landsea, Chief of the Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch, and Eric Blake, a Senior Hurricane Specialist, studied this topic in a recent article of theirs. About 15 years ago, scientists and researchers found that the number of hurricanes had increased over the past hundred years. But interestingly, during the 1940s and 1950s, there was an increase in short-lived or low-impact storms. At the same time, there were more aircraft over the oceans and the Hurricane Hunters began missions looking for hurricanes.  Last year, nearly 42 trillion dollars of damage were caused by tropical cyclones. This included a record-breaking 13 in the U.S., six of which were in Louisiana. Down in Central America, trillions of dollars in damage was delivered by destructive hurricanes such as Hurricane Iota .  O...
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World Meteorological Organization Makes Important Decisions On Hurricane Season

  The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) made a couple key decisions in their annual hurricane meeting.

The WMO decided to keep hurricane season starting at June 1, at least for now, though it may be moved to an earlier date in the future.

They also decided to end the use of Greek letters after the usual 21-name list runs out, as it did last year.

Essentially, this was done for three reasons:
-Too much focus on the names, not the impacts
-Very similar pronunciations of various names (Eta, Theta, etc)
-Once retired, there aren't more names to turn to

The third point is especially important, as the hurricane committee just retired two names from the Greek Alphabet. 

They also retired Dorian from 2019, which stalled over the Bahamas with 185 mph winds. They couldn't retire it last year due to Covid.

Laura impacted the Gulf coast last year as well as the southeastern US.

Instead of Greek Letters, a supplementary list of names is in place for each year. When a name is retired from the usual list, they will use these names now. 
The National Hurricane Center will be starting their tropical outlooks May 15.
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