Michael Tobis wrote:
> Hurricanes may be climatologically significant in their own right,
> independent of whether they affect populated areas directly, (they do
> move energy around) so, maybe.
>
> However, one swallow doesn't make a summer and all the usual caveats, etc.
>
This is more like a roc than a swallow. However, using first order
linear reasoning, since tropical storms are to first order heat engines
(see the very nice article by Kerry Emanuel in Physics Today
http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-8/p74.html ) a large hurricane
will have a very strong cooling effect on the sea surface temperature
and thus it would be unlikely that another large storm could follow
along the same path for some time. In that case a mars size hurricane
could be the whole summer.
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