We’ve never had an Atlantic hurricane season without a single hurricane through the end of September since reliable records began—until now.
That fact underscores how remarkable this season has been, with an exceptionally strong El Niño—likely to become the biggest in living memory—keeping a lid on tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic while supercharging it in the eastern Pacific (and giving Hawaii one of its busiest seasons on record).
Though ocean waters across the Atlantic are amply warm right now, those cross-cutting winds—known as wind shear—aren’t abating. That’s thanks to El Niño. This cyclical climate phenomenon happens because of an eastward shift in warm ocean waters in the Pacific, although it has worldwide effects on the weather. The movement of warm waters, in turn, changes where heat enters the atmosphere, which alters the motions of atmospheric currents. In the Atlantic, that means there is more wind shear and air that pushes downward, both of which stymie cyclone development.
It’s a weird place to be in isn’t. Terminal during the end times.
I worked my whole life to save up a nest egg, and then a doctor puts me bloodwork into a statistical model and suddenly it “oh shit” time.
And I’m in Florida so what ever happens I’ve got a front row seat for the apocalypse. While at the same time it turns out that Florida has really sub standard medical care.
Oh well. At least I’m not in Gaza or the Ukraine.
Oy, that’s exactly the kind of thing I like to remind myself of when I ride too hard on the pity-party train.
Kinda curious what your interests are, and whether they align at all. Mine, you can basically see via my post history. Choose “posts,” not comments.
My interests are science and being silly.
Humor and sarcasm is how I deal with things.
What’s a science-based community you take part in?
None over here, I tend to frequent a quieter corner of the internet, that I will not name.
I find the fediverse and lemmy tends to be quite a hostile place. My blunt boomer views are usually piss the young people off.
Feel free to peruse my history. But that’s as far as I’m going.
Hah, I hear you. Me, I’m a big fan of personal opinion and expression, as communicated with kindness and understanding, which… of course I’m not able to consistently do, myself. Thereby invoking the RAGE. 😄
And yet-- do you disagree with the idea that the Boomer Class as a whole reveled in their opportunities, then ‘pulled the ladder up behind them?’ Because to me (Gen X), it’s a perfectly cutting critique, economically and otherwise.
And truly-- the USA really did have a major epoque of ‘Greatness’ from approx the mid-1930’s through the mid-70’s. Who can possibly deny that, eh?
But from what I understand, your whole gen got extraordinarily selfish upon all that, speaking as Gen-X. That is, as a generational force, you commonly climbed right up the the privilege-ladder via FDR-level policy, then got all hostile to the idea that other people couldn’t come after you. Then naturally, deliberately fuck with the whole system of support, if it wasn’t for your narrow class.
So yeah… Your whole generation deserves the deepest of shame (and arguably my own as well for its toxic participation)
No to all of that.
You didn’t live through the 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s. It was a struggle to survive. Everything you experienced in your life we also got. Inflation, race riots, war riots, pandemics, wars, recessions and terror attacks all of it happened back then, almost like a mirror to what unfolds today. But you kids are just oblivious to it all. And you can stack the cold war and the fear of nuclear animation on top of that. In the 70’s the interest rate was 20% and inflation was out of control. in the 60’s the cities burn as the civil right movement created a second civil war. And in the 70’s the gas ran out due to the oil embargo. It was hellish time to be alive.
Oh, and every child lay in bed terrified they would be drafted into the Vietnam war.
Weirdest take ever, that literally no historian would agree with.
Seriously, what’s up with this super-pity-party?
asshole!!! I lived it you prick.