Tropical Storms Becoming More Frequent-

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Published: Sun, July 29, 2007 - 12:07 pm
   WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers say the number of tropical storms developing annually in the Atlantic Ocean more than doubled over the past century, with the increase taking place in two jumps.

Findings published today (Sunday) in London say the increases coincided with rising sea surface temperature, largely the byproduct of human-induced climate warming.

But an official at the National Hurricane Center called the research "sloppy science" and says technological improvements in observing and identifying storms accounted for the increase.

From 1905 to 1930, the Atlantic-Gulf Coast area averaged six tropical cyclones per year, with four of those storms growing into become hurricanes.

The annual average jumped ten tropical storms and five hurricanes from 1931 to 1994. From 1995 to 2005, the average was 15 tropical storms and eight hurricanes annually.

Even in 2006, widely reported as a mild year, there were ten tropical storms.

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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