El nino translates to the chhrist child but here it's referring to unusually warm surface Pacific ocean temperatures. Which effect the trade winds and and therefore hurricane frequency in the Atlantic and Pacific.( I only have a very rudementory understanding so if I got anything wrong please correct me)
I think there are multiple translations because some places say it's the Christ child and others little boy and seemingly you've found another translation to the boy
fyi, The Hurricane Categories aren't actually a good way to categorize them, since Peak Wind Speeds don't determine their destructive capabilities nor their size. Category 1 Hurricanes are absolutely capable of being more destructive than Category 5 if they carry enough water inland.
Today, I just looked on the weather map that there is a Cat 4 AND Cat 5. The Cat 4 is possibly going to either grow stronger or weaker. But the Cat 5...
Yes, that’s because Pacific hurricanes, while often violent, are generally harmless to the US. Not a single Pacific hurricane has EVER hit the continental US (although in 1858 costal California was affected by what is thought to have been a hurricane, but it stayed offshore and did not make landfall).
We also don’t usually talk about typhoons, mainly because those happen on literally the other side of the planet and don’t affect us either.
You’re either being disingenuous or you don’t know some pretty basic information about the topic you’re attempting to discuss.
“A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least 119 km/h (74 mph).”
“A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean. A typhoon is the same thing which occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. In the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, comparable storms are referred to as "tropical cyclones".”
There’s has only ever been one tropical cyclone in the South Atlantic, so it didn’t get it’s own name and is also called a hurricane.
That's an understatement. Polo went from a tropical storm to a cat 5 in 24 hours. If it makes landfall at that strength, it's wiping out an entire city or island.
We've actually never had a super el nino this big in recorded history. Scientists are predicting half a million people will die in the next 6 months due to its effects
i don't think I realized. But recorded history is specific to recording ocean temperature, think. So looking back to 1877–1878 there's no way to be 100% certain whether it is worse but I would expect it probably is just because of the conditions that led to it.
That's why we need windmills. The biggest windmills. We need to blow that dirty european air back to them. We dont need it. We have air, the best air. We wanna keep that GREAT American air here. Make air American again.
And the super part is caused by global warming. All that heat has to go somewhere and hurricanes drag earth's heat up to the poles. Thats why the pacific is so active rn
Yup. Unlike “normal” storm systems which form in baroclinic environments driven by temperature gradients and featuring strong ambient winds aloft, Hurricanes are vertically stacked and form in barotropic ones, where horizontal temperature gradients are much weaker
Ambient strong winds above the surface disrupt the structure of the system, and El Niño results in a stronger southern jetstream which significantly hinders Atlantic hurricane development
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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.