#11 Postby wwizard » Fri Oct 28, 2022 11:50 am
FireRat wrote:Category5Kaiju wrote:The one unique thing I've noticed with this year compared to years such as 2019, 2020, and 2021 is that it basically prevented any shorties from happening post-July. This season seemed to have really gotten sick of the shorties complaints from the last several years
Actually I feel like the NHC has become more conservative in naming the shorties this season, IMO of course, and perhaps from here on they may keep it that way thanks to the spamfest that 2020-21 was. We did have at least 4 candidates this year that could've been shorties and gotten named only to last a day. I think that the NHC may have become more patient with naming shorties when they're not posing an immediate threat to land, just to make sure they deserve a name. Colin is an example of one that got named quick due to its close proximity to land vs the one invest in the eastern Atlantic from a few weeks ago that looked decent but never got named, since it was over open waters. We would probably be at the P name already if the "2022 shortie candidates" been named, again this is just my honest opinion.
My thing is that if it meets the criteria, then who cares that it's a shortie or no threat to land? It is what it is. If it's a tropical storm, according to the parameters set forth, then call it a tropical storm. Might have saved them from having to retire another I name.
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