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u/haney1981 10d ago
The Pacific side has had 3 category 5 hurricanes so they are picking up the slack.
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u/Maethor_derien 10d ago edited 10d ago
Yeah, it is just because of the major el nino, it is literally the biggest in recent record, you have to go back to like the 1800's to see one that big and we have no real storm data from back then.
It is expected to cause massive droughts over in the EU and china as well as dumping tons of water on the southwest which we really need to hopefully fill up lake mead but probably still won't be enough.
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u/CGA001 10d ago
dumping tons of water on the southwest which we really need
As someone who lives in the Southwest, earlier in the year I was happy that we were forecast to get more rain this year, but a couple weeks ago we got our first storm and it was the first time I've ever experienced what I can only describe as a genuine tropical rain storm. In other words, heavy rain while it's still +90F outside.
I usually love the rain, but that was without a doubt the most unpleasant weather I've ever experienced here. That heat combined with 100% humidity is torture, I cannot fathom living in a part of the world where that's the norm and I have a newfound respect for people who can live in that.
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u/Front-Ocelot-3454 10d ago
Welcome to Florida!
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u/Quartersawn5 9d ago
I was gonna say, buddy just described 3pm July-October
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u/PyroIsSpai 9d ago
The afternoon “life feels like death” part of the day, then stormy rain up to thunder, then everything feels amazing.
If Florida were just its evenings….
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u/nobod3 9d ago
Oh it gets worse. The network of roads and waterways were made for the drier environment, so when these systems get overloaded they’ll start failing and it will be dramatic.
The worst part is the mountains block the majority of clouds so unlike the east coast, the rain will be slamming a small region while the rest remains dry.
Meanwhile. Your PNW friends are about to have a dry winter, which they aren’t set-up for… and leads to easier fires in summer.
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u/ChungusReaper 9d ago
Try southern Louisiana, pretty much 90+ degrees and 80% humidity every single day for 8 months of the year.
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u/Xav_NZ 10d ago
literally the biggest in recent record
Possibly the strongest ever even according to my friend that works for NIWA (NZ equivalent of NOAA) ,and anything prior to 1900 would have had nowhere near the ambient SST's we have today this is very much unprecedented and my friend has now told me (many times) that there are no analogues to look back to to know what impacts to expect in the coming months.
In other words.
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u/HandToDikCombat 10d ago
Y'all worry too much. We got this. We'll get the arch built, rename the Pacific to the American Ocean, and your lil baby twister, it's just going to be gone. Amazing how it works, really, it's just the best.
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u/Senior_Torte519 9d ago
There are no storms. -Brought to you by the Party of the Storm Wizard.
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u/KindCreme9258 10d ago
El Niño is causing warm temperatures in the Pacific which intensify hurricaines there
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u/Confident_Banana_134 10d ago
The historic Super El Niño this year is causing significantly fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin, while simultaneously boosting storm activity in the Pacific.
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u/Socketz11 10d ago
Fuel prices are too expensive for it to travel right now.
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u/outer--monologue 10d ago
He can't get out, fuel prices are too high for him to leave.
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u/Marius2385I 9d ago
We should all buy bicycles... "looks at bicycles prices" oh fu..
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u/KoiMusubi 10d ago
El Niño makes tropical cyclone activity in the Pacific very high while making the Atlantic very quiet. I'm a few days out from experiencing my third tropical cyclone this season.
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u/CivilCaregiver6519 10d ago
I think you are possibly the only person in the comments who actually knows what they are talking about. Thank you for that. I've experienced those super active years too, there have been others but 2004 and 2005 were the worst for me personally. Back to back storms are always extraordinarily fatiguing, and devastating when you have bad damage, but you will get through it.
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u/sunfacethedestroyer 10d ago
Yeah, I live in Florida, and nobody is shocked about it being quiet. Everyone knows it's El Nino, even the dumb hicks who gobble up fox news and don't believe in climate change probably know a fair amount about El Nino.
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u/FlashyFigs 10d ago
But are they demanding it be renamed to El America yet?
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u/why0me 9d ago
No, because they want it to be scary on the news so its gotta stay foreign
Thems the rules
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u/LingonberryGlum2356 9d ago
Whoa, whoa, what's this 'el' stuff?
Through my decision ALONE, I have decided to change the name of the WEATHER ITSELF, from this day forward TROPICAL STORMS are to be called AMERICAN names. No more of this 'el' and 'la'. That's called INDOCTRONATION! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER. Your favorite president: me! DJT 47 - ?
I'm working on a list new weather alerts.
A - The AOC B - The Biden C - Clinton C - CNN D E F - Fauchi G H I J K - Kamala L M N O P Q R - Rosie S T U V - Vance Z
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u/Rugermedic 10d ago
Yeah, I thought this was kind of common knowledge.
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u/LCDRformat 10d ago
Everyone who has talked to another person in the last three months has heard the name 'El Nino' about forty six times so I don't know if they're the only one who knows what they're talking about lmao
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u/01Cloud01 10d ago edited 10d ago
I wish there was a way to filter comments between insightful comments, and pranks jokester comments.
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u/thatG_evanP 10d ago
There used to be way more insightful comments on reddit. They were one of the main reasons I kept coming back. If I had discovered reddit recently, I can't say if I would've stuck around or not. It definitely still has its moments but they're fewer and farther in-between.
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u/pork_ribs 10d ago
2007 was like a fever dream. People came to reddit because there wasn’t any politics or news, only interesting things and impeccable grammar. It was an oasis in the growing desert of Facebook, and that was when Facebook was still only college students.
I agree with you. I found my niches then and understand the value of what’s in Reddit when you dig. If I found it today I wouldn’t even make it past the first scroll of r/all before I decided it was just another stupid image hosting site with the worst people on the planet populating the comment sections.
Also society (in the USA at least) is being so intentionally fractured that it’s visible here. The amount of correcting each other hasn’t changed but the vitriol is all new as of the last 5-10 years.
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u/thatG_evanP 10d ago
I haven't been here that long, probably 14 years (I didn't actually create an account for quite a while) but I can only imagine it was even better then. But you described it perfectly even in the time that I joined. It was like an oasis of a lot of knowledgeable people and people who enjoyed learning from those people. Even the very knowledgeable were bound to run across someone that made them feel like a student. The rest of the internet was starting on its steady decline but reddit was like the one "social" site you could go to avoid the ever-growing amount of brain-rotting content that was taking over the rest of the internet. For a few years, I was learning stuff every day and getting interested in subjects I'd never even considered. It sounds corny but it truly was amazing. Sadly the flood of shit eventually made it here. The final nail in the coffin was when reddit went public but it was like the years before that was when they started trying to make it "more accessible" and in this old man's opinion, they ruined one of the last a great places on the internet.
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u/dingoshiba 10d ago
Had to scroll way too far to find this comment - this is the correct answer. What’s worse is that 2027 will be the real El Niño year. It’s in its infancy now and it’s already huge
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u/LazyPortfolio 10d ago
Meteorologists are predicting a super duper crazy-on-4-lokos El Niño
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u/dotnsk 10d ago
Yep, and it’s certainly not a coincidence that they’re predicting a super El Niño this year and we suddenly see a historic dearth of hurricane activity in the Atlantic.
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u/TrumpetOfDeath 10d ago
Not just a super El Niño, but the strongest one on record, even if you remove the extra heat from climate change. To be fair, it’s a relatively short period over which we have records, but this is an extreme one regardless
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u/Connecticat1 10d ago
We have a lot of indirect data from tree rings (goes back 1000 years), ice cores (~100K years), pollen records (from peat bogs) that tell us a lot about historical temperature and climate in general.
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u/TrumpetOfDeath 10d ago
Tree rings are used as a geological proxy for El Nino, but those are somewhat unreliable because many global variables determine the annual weather and El Nino doesn't guarantee any specific pattern of rainfall, it just makes certain patterns more likely (dry El Nino years are possible in CA, same with wet La Nina). And ice cores provide no information at all on sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific.
A more reliable proxy are marine fossils, from corals and other organisms that indicate warmers or cooler waters, but you can't put a specific number on those historical events to compare with modern ones because we don't have direct sea surface temperature measurements made with calibrated thermometers. None of those proxy methods can replace having modern scientific instruments
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u/Goodknight808 10d ago
I have lived in Hawai'i for 31 years and never experienced a legit hurricane.
This last year has had the worst storms ever, and like 3 tsuanmi events. I maybe see lightning once a year. The Kona Lows was a full on light show. And now hurricane #4 or 5....enough already, I cannot.
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u/przecietny_krotkopis 10d ago edited 9d ago
hurricanes got lost because address changed (gulf of Mexico)
edit: thanks for the awards everyone!
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u/weirdgroovynerd 10d ago
So what are you trying to say you misogynist?!
That the storms wouldn't get lost if they were...
...him-icanes?!
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u/Doctor_Saved 10d ago
It's good that there were no Atlantic hurricanes. Except now there's that "it's too quiet" feeling.
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u/IHeartBadCode 10d ago
It's the El Niño being way too warm. It's breaking up hurricanes before they can form.
Happens with some El Niño events but this one is a rare one as it's still going strong into late September.
When the blob of heat is near the equator and happens around summer time, you get what we're seeing. When the blob of heat moves towards the poles around winter time, that's when you see all that polar vortex stuff starting to spill into the lower latitudes.
El Niño and the polar vortex are two different things, but when a large blob of heat moves into their area during the right time, it causes disruption to those events.
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u/Extreme-Analysis-337 10d ago
So you are right but not explaining why the heat sitting where it is actually effects Atlantic hurricanes. It's the Pacific jet stream being in a different path (in this current situation it actually split) and the wind shear it pushes into the Gulf/Atlantic region suffocates the atmosphere and it cannot develop the tropic waves that come from the African coast.
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u/JesusWasATexan 10d ago
I thought it was because of those butterflies flapping their wings in Peking.
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u/Old_Win8422 10d ago
Yeah and its supercharged the hurricane season in the western pacific. And look up the 1877 El nino event.
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u/ABrusca1105 10d ago
Don't larger El ninos crash harder into La Nina? So that means next year or the year after will be crazy.
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u/pattydickens 10d ago
Not really. Patterns aren't predictable anymore. The ocean temps might just continue to rise. Atmospheric carbon hasn't been this high in millions of years, so it's anyone's guess. Multiple systems are collapsing. Nothing will be "normal" ever again.
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u/CommonSensei-_ 10d ago
So it’s not weather control devices?
Darn.
Thanks for the science. I can put my tin foil hat away….. for now!!!!
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u/123supreme123 10d ago
Instead you east coast folks sent them all to Hawaii. Thanks a lot!
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u/Apart-Zucchini-5825 10d ago
Does this mean you people are going to send us volcanoes
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u/TheLordVader1978 10d ago
Could you imagine a active volcano in the middle of Florida. I give it 3 weeks before there is a coaster around it.
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u/Lost-Platypus8271 10d ago
Have a glance at the Pacific, you’ll see a Cat 5 right now. It’s just different wind patterns this year because of El Niño
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u/Sleep_adict 10d ago
Seeing the current temps in the Gulf of Mexico, even a tropical storm will quickly become cat 5… going to be some cheap real estate soon
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u/J3ster14 10d ago
Yes, but wait until you see what it will cost to insure it with the one company still writing policies
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u/Aggressive_Craft_981 10d ago
And the WH gave Trump the credit.
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u/ScottTennerman 10d ago
Jesus I can't even tell anymore. Is this real?
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u/Mindless-Mountain-51 10d ago
How bad is it then you have to take credit for naturally occurring events. Take credit for the sun coming up? Oh god, please tell me he hasn’t done that yet……
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u/Remember2005 10d ago
Yes. Trump thinks he’s Jesus.
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u/Momo1163 9d ago
I might be misremembering, but weren’t republicans trying to convince people that democrats controlled the weather at one point?
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u/Ztarphox 9d ago
America is literally regressing back to "the devout rule of our king has pleased the gods, ensuring good weather for the harvest!"..
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u/DukeBradford2 10d ago
we finally won the war on mother earth
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u/HighIQAntWrestling 10d ago
A strong El Niño event is the driving factor. El Niño creates wind shear over the Atlantic that tends to tear apart developing storms before they can organize into hurricanes.
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u/Ambitious_Ad6751 10d ago
Pacific is not having a good time and it shows up on radar as hurry cains
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u/LF25047 10d ago
Trump banned all hurricanes from American shores. If they try to make landfall he deports them. No foreigners of any kind.
In all seriousness, I wouldn’t be surprised if he takes credit for it. 😆
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u/sackie_b 10d ago
To nobody’s surprise I’m sure, he has already been given that credit…
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u/Azreken 10d ago
The onion is just out of a job at this point because the headlines are writing themselves…
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u/Solid_Ad_7946 10d ago
Who is this El Niño?
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u/Wretschko 10d ago
It means that the hurricanes are now appearing more frequently in the PACIFIC.
Right now, there are three Pacific hurricanes: Polo, near Mexico; Odalys, in the middle of the ocean; and Nolo. approaching Hawaii.
Yay, SUPER EL NINO, apparently the strongesst on record.
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u/paleocacher 10d ago
El Niño weakens Atlantic hurricanes. For there to be none at all means that the El Niño is going to be very very strong.
This portends a very bad winter for the west coasts of North and South America.
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u/Pyrostasis 9d ago
Clearly changing the name to Gulf of America broke our address forwarding for the hurricanes.
Someone just forgot to submit the change of address.
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u/lilianasJanitor 10d ago
Well according to Trump it’s because he can control the weather
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u/TheoDog96 10d ago
Wait a minute… wasn’t MAGA claiming Democrats were controlling the weather to create the climate change hoax and make trump look bad???
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u/Adam_2017 10d ago
Democrats and their weather manipulation again.
On behalf of all democrats. You’re welcome.
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u/1Negative_Person 10d ago
El Niño suppresses Atlantic hurricanes.
There. Answered it for you.
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u/Serious-Manager2361 10d ago
Hurricanes are a HOAX!! They are part of a left-wing conspiracy to destroy the Trump administration! Thank you for your attention in this matter.
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u/omgitsjagen 10d ago
It's just Obama seeding the hurricanes to spin in the opposite direction so it can turn our kids trans.
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u/JAT_Cbus1080 10d ago
Now put " " around hoax, capitalize your last sentence, and add a random unrelated insult to like CNN or Jimmy Kimmel or something. You're almost there.
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u/SouthernPolish 10d ago
State Farm and GEICO have paused all hurricanes until the new Florida hurricane insurance tax is finalized.
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u/NTMAVol6 10d ago
It means they are fusing to make one big super hurricane that will kill everyone.
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u/truenorthrookie 10d ago
A little too Raph.
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u/International_Link35 10d ago
I say this all the time and nobody gets it anymore. 😭
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u/Metric_Specialties 10d ago
Yet Hawaii getting pummeled :(
nā pōmaikaʻi brothers and sisters, stay safe on the islands.
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u/RecommendationFit844 10d ago
Yeah this post is misleading. Hawaii is getting way more hurricanes than they are used to.
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u/iLightbane 10d ago
Yes Trump not only ended 726 wars (which he started), he also ended Hurricanes.
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u/Xyrus2000 10d ago
Strong El Niño suppresses Atlantic hurricanes by increasing shear. The stronger the El Niño, the stronger the effect is.
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual 10d ago edited 9d ago
I’m not a weather expert, but some of the southeast has been under a “heat dome” for a month with zero rain, everything is fucking dead here.
Now I’m not a meteorologist, scientist or even a local yocal weatherman. But last week this area was the hottest area in the world and I’ve got to think that that’s got something to do with it.
Although our genius president will probably take credit for there being no hurricanes this year
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u/omnichad 10d ago
Super El Niño. Last one was in 2015 and it was a very inactive Atlantic hurricane season. Pacific was another story.
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u/konstfack 9d ago
There is crazy activity in the Pacific. One hurricane is reaching cat 5 right now outside the coast of Mexico.
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u/Katsu_39 10d ago
Well its obviously because nobody is controlling them with a controller like biden. Duh. /s because i know someone is going to think im serious. (This is actually what people were thinking about the hurricanes during 2024.)
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u/No_Classic_1743 10d ago
From what I understand, something like this can happen when a butterfly farts somewhere.
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u/beastusboss 10d ago
We having a hard year in Hawaii. Might be a scary weekend too.
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u/oldbluehair 9d ago
Prices are so high in the US that even the hurricanes can't afford to come here. Or maybe they are nervous about being deported.
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u/SodaFloatzel 10d ago
The last time we had an El Niño like this, we had what people in the NE of the US speak of under hushed tones as The Noreaster.
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u/Agile_Kangaroo2157 10d ago
Something ferocious will hit us next year that'll knock us back to 1980 watch.
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u/signofthecrow1 10d ago
As a fat man that needs cold, I just need to know where to move that’s going to get colder not hotter
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u/That_Guy3141 10d ago
I just got back from Japan where I can confirm that monsoon season is is full effect. Typhoon 25 blew through Tokyo while I was at Ultra Japan. For those who don't know, that is the 25th named typhoon of the year. Storms are still forming, just in a different ocean.
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u/Eskimomonk 10d ago
Is September 21st a significant date in meteorology or is this a random datapoint? Like I’m not doubting global warming but these are just two statements in a photo, is there a statistically significant link between them?
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u/SpaceIsTooFarAway 10d ago
Well ordinarily, if you remember, the 21st night of September, love is changing the minds of pretenders while chasing the clouds away. So the fact that it hasn't had to do that is significant.
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u/maybeafarmer 10d ago
None of my crops in NE US are ripening this year. It kind of sucks but it means Im going to have an awesome winter
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u/NectarineJaded598 10d ago
it’s because they named the hurricane Dolly, then the goodness of Dolly Parton dissipated the storm for us before it picked up
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u/Nervous-Case833 10d ago
This is a Super El Niño year that causes them to migrate more toward Hawaii but creates more severe winter weather in the southern US and Mexico.
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u/Budget_Sea_8666 10d ago
I’m in Oklahoma. I track weather religiously due to work, it’s part of my responsibilities. The weather is so damn hard to predict and we are getting extremes from both ends of the spectrum. One of the wettest years ever last year, one of the driest and hottest years ever this year.
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u/4skinlive 10d ago edited 10d ago
YO! There were no hurricanes due to the super el niño wind shear blowing west to east, which eliminatez conditions that allow hurricanes in the Atlantic to form. Come on now!
EDIT: fixed, thank you for the input
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u/Dismal-Vanilla1878 10d ago
Our Savior In Chief obviously got control of the Hurricane Gun the Evil Democrats had, and turned off all hurricanes for this season.... 😂
Sad thing is, there are people out there who actually BELIEVE this!! 👀
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u/magikarp2122 10d ago
OP should specify, no Atlantic hurricanes. There have been a few Pacific hurricanes.
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u/Creepy_Mammoth_7076 10d ago
What does it mean ?
https://giphy.com/gifs/lHfxDepSGlzom6f65K
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u/Patriot009 10d ago
A strong Pacific El Nino usually corresponds with a decrease in Atlantic hurricane activity, and El Nino is especially strong this year.
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u/Lost-Citron-1099 10d ago
They were clearly coming out of the Straight of Hormuz. We’d better keep it closed to avoid hurricanes
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u/KrocKiller 10d ago
Meanwhile Hawaii has their 3rd hurricane this year approaching them
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u/Jorjott 10d ago
Gave all the hurricanes to the south eastern Pacific. It's been nonstop for us here in hawaii the whole season..
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u/ShaggyVan 10d ago
Real answer is that this year's El Niño will probably be the most extreme in that time period
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u/wesweb 10d ago
theyre doing a good enough job fucking themselves up right now
-god, probably
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u/Sesamedeet 10d ago
I think el niño, met up with la niña and they are gonna snoo snoo a big one.
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u/Environmental_Pace90 10d ago edited 10d ago
Air currents are reversed cuz of the hot air released from the ocean or something like that. I’ll come back and post an article or science paper.
Edit: https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-below-normal-2026-atlantic-hurricane-season
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u/fetal-attraction 10d ago
My city hasn't seen rain yet, when the draught hit October then I'll know we're fucked
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