Originally Posted by
Dave Zellers
It seems quite logical that hurricane data historically consists of named storms and today we have skewed the data by naming many more storms.
Have a cite for that? (I'm finding lots of stuff about how names are picked, not so much about what qualifies a storm for naming.)
It seems quite logical that "historically" (prior to weather satellites) a named storm would only be one that made landfall or at least got into shipping lanes: you don't name a storm you never saw. But that still allows a pretty accurate count over the last 50+ years.
(Of course one obvious possibility for naming more storms today is that, well, there are actually more of them.)
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