NEVER TOLERATE TYRANNY!....Conservative voices from the GRASSROOTS.

If climatologists admit they cannot predict Hurricanes six months in advance . . . .

what chance do they have predicting climate and weather 6 YEARS in advance or even less likely 60 years in advance?

My answer, NONE!

Hurricane experts admit they can’t predict hurricanes early; December forecasts too unreliable

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

By Tom Spears, The Ottawa Citizen

Two top U.S. hurricane forecasters, famous across Deep South hurricane country, are quitting the practice of making a seasonal forecast in December because it doesn’t work.

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OTTAWA — Two top U.S. hurricane forecasters, famous across Deep South hurricane country, are quitting the practice of making a seasonal forecast in December because it doesn’t work.

William Gray and Phil Klotzbach say a look back shows their past 20 years of forecasts had no predictive value.

The two scientists from Colorado State University will still discuss different probabilities of hurricane seasons in December. But the shift signals how far humans are, even with supercomputers, from truly knowing what our weather will do in the long run.

Colorado State has been known for decades for forecasts of how many named storms and hurricanes can be expected each official hurricane season (which runs from June to November.)

Last week, the pair made this announcement:

“We are discontinuing our early December quantitative hurricane forecast for the next year … Our early December Atlantic basin seasonal hurricane forecasts of the last 20 years have not shown real-time forecast skill even though the hindcast studies on which they were based had considerable skill.”

The two will still make the traditional forecasts closer to hurricane season.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly said they were stopping all forecasts.

There may come a time when scientists will be able to track with more sophisticated computer models, the changes in climate and weather. Currently they are NOT close.