el Nino/la Nina storm numbers

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el Nino/la Nina storm numbers

#1 Postby hcane27 » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:26 am

The table below lists the average numbers of tropical cyclones/hurricanes/major hurricanes from 1950 to 2006 segregated into the various el Nino/la Nina categories. The categories used are based upon the 4 major classifying types ...
BOM SOI - Australia MEI - Multivariate Enso Index JMA - Japan Meteorological Agency CPC - Climate Prediction Center

DES Storms Hurricanes MH
SC 10.6 6.0 3.8
SC/MC 11.2 7.2 3.6
SC/WC 14.0 10.0 3.0
MC/WC 10.0 5.2 1.8
MC/N 11.8 7.0 4.3
WC/N 15.2 8.8 3.6
WC/WW 6.0 4.0 0.5
N 13.0 8.0 3.5
N/WW 11.7 8.0 2.7
N/MW 9.5 5.0 2.5
WW 11.0 6.5 2.5
WW/MW 10.8 7.0 2.7
WW/SW 9.0 8.0 5.0
MW/SW 9.5 4.0 2.0
SW 6.4 3.0 0.8

SC - Strong cold ---- all of the 4 were SC
SC/MC --- strong cold/moderate cold --- the 4 overlapped between the 2 levels
SC/WC --- strong cold/weak cold --- the 4 overlapped from strong to weak cold
and so on . Notice the lack of major hurricanes in 3 categories ..... MC/WC ... WC/WW ... SW (strong warm)
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