A hurricane season without a hurricane?

[Johnny]

Has there evern been (since we have been recording) a hurricane season without a hurricane?

[HurricaneHunter914]

Well that would be really ironic.

[dwsqos2]

1914

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1914/index.html

Incidentally, this season has been reanalyzed, and only the track of
the single tropical storm was altered.

[HurricaneHunter914]

Has there ever been an H-Season without a single TC?

[dwsqos2]

Such an event has not occured since at least 1851.

[WindRunner]

In the Atlantic, anyway. The North IO has some problems with generating TCs, if I remember correctly.

[Andrew92]

I won't disagree with what HURDAT found for 1914 in the least, since they really know what they're doing, but part of me wonders if maybe some out-to-sea storms were never found. Why? Whatever few ship reports that may have been available might have been involved in World War I. However, despite this argument and hypothesis, 1914 would likely not have been much more active, if at all. And to further refute the argument I made, while a lot of ships were used in World War I, certainly there would be SOME kind of report of a raging hurricane, at least I would think.

Just a thought about 1914. Hopefully I'm not inconsistent both having and refuting a hypothesis on the same post.

-Andrew92

[Audrey2Katrina]

You make a valid point, Andrew; but remember that WWI didn't get started till August of 1914... meaning later in the season, and didn't really get stepped up until well after that season was over. I have no idea how busy shipping was at that time; so the point about some ships at sea catching at least the edge of something is well taken; equally it's not unlikely that at least a storm or two, for the lack of a better expression, "slipped in under radar."

A2K

[Aslkahuna]

The NIO is a special case since the monsoon trough is up over land during the months of June through mid September so no storms can form since the monsoon flow itself is a hostile environment with strong low to mid tropospheric SW flow (usually up to 300 mb or so) and NE flow above.

Steve

[Audrey2Katrina]

I guess all this is a reason why most June/early July are storms that originate in the Gulf or extreme N-W. Caribbean, which then tends to lay fairly dormant while the "action" seems to shift to the CV/Atlantic and Gulf storms in August/September, with a late-season re-firing of the Caribbean in late Sept through the end of the season.
At least that's what most of the charts seem to indicate.

A2K