This year there has been an unprecedented number of southern tracking "cyclones"

[calvinkaskey]

You don't hear to much about the role of sulfur dioxide in global warming but it wasn't until around 1980 that worldwide So2 levels were lowered to lessen acid rain. It is after this time global warming really started to ramp up. Then in 1991 Mount Pinatubo cooled the globe for several years and possibly more. I'm not sure I'm convinced of how little global cooling is caused by lessening in solar activity as we recently have been near a solar minimum. If coal burning and especially low sulfur coal continues it will help to increase global warming. China is a big player in that regard.

 

[rdale]

You don't hear to much about the role of sulfur dioxide in global warming

Actually you do... But what does that have to do with your southward moving storms?

http://esseacourses.strategies.org/module.php?module_id=168

 

[calvinkaskey]

Where is a site that talks about so2 levels for the past several decades and what the industrial output from different countries is according to the type of coal they burn? If China got their power from high sulfur coal for several years they could change global temperatures significantly. I feel global warming is allowing stronger storms to form further south as the temperatures offset lack of Coriolis effect.

 

[rdale]

global warming is allowing stronger storms to form further south as the temperatures offset lack of Coriolis effect.

There is very little room for "feelings" in science Show your evidence - not what your heart says...

 

[Todd Lemery]

It's a little messy Drew, but is still fairly interesting

 

[calvinkaskey]

Hurricane specialist Eric Blake said that Pali is also the "southernmost tropical storm to form in the central Pacific basin," forming at just 4.7 degrees north of the equator, likely also influenced by the warmer than average sea-surface temperatures associated with El Niño.

http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/tropical-depression-one-c-pali-central-pacific

 

[rdale]

Calvin - it's not tracking southerly.

 

[calvinkaskey]

If it formed near the equator and is moving it is moving in the south. Storms simultaneously form and move, that is what I mean.

 

[calvinkaskey]

Now a hurricane is moving south in the Central Pacific and it is near the equator less than 7 degrees north latitude and is expected to be only a few degrees of the equator.

 

[rdale]

...but to wrap this all back to your original post, none of that makes any sense.