Name:   CRD - Subject:   Let the vile insults begin, doesn't bother me, Date:   9/13/2017 10:44:36 AM

Archie,

You know me, no vile insults, but I try to supply rational thoughts to issues you bring to the table.  As an extremely amateur weather watcher, over the past 10 years or so with the draught of hurricane development in the Atlantic Basin, many on the left stated that the dry Saharan Sand layer at upper atmospheric levels that got sucked into developing low pressure areas and prevented intensification was due to global warming.  Same could be said with westerly shear that tore apart developing lows.  Same could be said with shallow warm water temps in the Verdes and Carribean.  If wind shear was low, no dry Saharan air making it into the low pressure area, deeper warm water levels and no Eastern seaboard lows that would drive the Hurricane out into the Atlantic, then chances were good that we could see a hurricane make it here.  In the GOM, water temps have been elevated, as usually occurs in the summer.  Just so happens that in these two storms, conditions for hurricane development were ripe.  Deep warm water, no wind shear, no Saharan sand in the upper levels of the atmosphere, and a fortunate positioning of the Bermuda High, which has existed for as long as we have been able to measure it.  So what is it Archie?  Was the paucity of hurricane development over the past 10 years or so the result of global warming as many suggested, or is the development of a cycle of hurricanes that we have seen just this year a result of global warming?  I just wish people like you and those in the press and on the left would have the same amount of curiosity in matters that you know nothing about as I did, when I wanted to learn about severe weather phenomena on my own.  Lazy just to repeat what others ramble on about.