Any explanations as to why NOAA states the Atlantic hurricane season is getting longer?

Question

"The Atlantic hurricane season is officially from 1 June to 30 November. There is nothing magical in these dates, and hurricanes have occurred outside of these six months, but these dates were selected to encompass over 97% of tropical activity. June 1st has been the traditional start of the Atlantic hurricane season for decades. However, the end date has been slowly shifted outward, from October 31st to November 15th until its current date of November 30th."

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/G1.html

Answer 1

"Hurricane season" has little meaning.  NOAA tracks hurricanes, regardless of whether they fall within a certain time frame or not.

How that time frame is defined, is for the convenience of folks that need a season for everything.

Answer 2

AGW = $$$$$

Answer 3

I've looked at hurricane strength and frequency charts that cover the last 120 years or so, and I see nothing special or out of the ordinary or even a trend of any type that would indicate in the slightest that hurricane season is getting longer or more severe or the like.... do yourself a favor and conduct a websearch on such statistics and you will see how much a joke such explanations really are

Answer 4

No two hurricane seasons are identical, things shift, they evolve, and the AGW proponents can't seem to make up their minds whether global warming makes hurricanes stronger or weaker, more or less likely to hit land, more frequent or less frequent - and now it's "the hurricane SEASON will be longer."  

I think no two years have identical weather, I think trends come and go, patterns form and dissapear, and no matter what happens someone is going to try to pin it to global warming.     I think there's some intuitive logic to a lot of the various theories but there are so many of them and most of the contradict each other.  

All the skeptic organizations do is point that out.

That's not "confusing the science" - it's pointing out inconsistencies.    If the science is clear and conclusive than that shouldn't be possible.   Sometimes you make it sounds like you're David when you're Goliath - XOM spends $19MM over several years versus billions every year to pin everything and anything on warming and warming on man - you're not the underdog.  And you make it sound like they could just do that with any scientific study - - - no, they can't.    A big company that tried to spend $19MM over seven or eight years to confuse the public about the law of gravity, or force being mass times velocity, would not succeed.

Answer 5

Because hurricanes are forming later, presumably because sea surface temperatures are remaining higher for longer, presumably because of global warming.