Hurricane activity in Atlantic dips below predicted level

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/04/weather-trackerhurricane-activity-in-atlantic-dips-below-predicted-level?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Still a couple weeks left till the official end of the North Atlantic season, but it looks fairly certain that the 2022 has seen a slightly below average season using the ACEACE Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a metric used by various agencies to express the energy released by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. It is calculated by summing the square of a tropical cyclone's maximum sustained winds, measured every six hours. The resulting total can be divided by 10,000 to make it more manageable, or added to other totals in order to work out a total for a particular group of storms. as a measure. So many short lived tropical cyclones barely last more than 36 or 48 hours in recent years thanks to the intense forensic work of the NHC that counting the number of named storms (17) isn’t a particularly good way to measure just how active anyone season has been.

Accumulated ACE
13 November 2022
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