Plot of all storm tracks in the record 2005 hurricane season
Two satellite videos are posted here.show the 2005 record hurricane season. This was a year that charged the Global Warming debate, but was met with dismissal by two leading experts in the field. In 2007, the former director of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield published a letter leaning towards his belief in the natural forces involved with the rise in hurricane activity. Just this week, Dr. William Gray published a letter lashing out in the Climategate debate. Both men testified to congress their professional findings, excluding climate change or global warming from any connection to the record storms. The following year of 2006 did not have one hurricane hit the United State. This was matched this year with only 9 named storms in the Atlantic for the 2009 Hurricane Season.
The second video produced by NASA is the clearer of the two. This first animation shows all of the cyclonic activity associated with the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season from June to November. The 2005 hurricane season was a record breaker: the most named storms, three of the six most intense storms on record, the latest forming storm, and the most costly season in property damages. The infrared imagery was captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-12 satellite with 4km resolution. Names of all of the tropical storms and hurricanes are included in the animation.
NASA video of the 2005 hurricane season along with sea surface temperatures colored in across the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico:
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