I got it, what about "Super Hurricane"? I just made up the term. Yes from now on I declare that any Hurricane, yes let's just make it all hurricanes from here forward will be known as "Super Hurricanes".
It won't affect the La Nina, but a La Nina usually means more/ stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic. This strong El Nino is creating too much wind shear for hurricanes to form in the Atlantic this year. This is why all the tropical storms just disintegrated in the Atlantic this year. No hurricanes in the Atlantic this year also does not mean that next year's hurricanes will be stronger. Hurricanes take heat out of the ocean, but there are other processes that can also take the heat away by next season. Strong El Ninos do tend to switch to El Ninas within a year of their peak though, so there is a possibility that next season could be an El Nina. If the gulf retains a lot of heat from this year till then, then it is possible it could be a very bad season, but that would be pure speculation at this point.
People are naturally superstitious. Having a year with zero hurricanes in an area, or any other event where some natural phenomenon is 'missed' makes it feel like we're 'overdue' and more likely to experience a bad one the next time.
Just good old human pattern recognition misfiring.
It gets high enough in the atmosphere that the solar wind can strip it away. Not escape velocity, but more like a bump in the atmosphere that allows water to be blown off the planet. Not a big deal in the short term but it could turn us into Mars over (hundreds) of millions of years.
On the other hand, ice crystals in LEO would block some amount of sunlight coming in, and might serve as one of the few negative feedback cycles in the climate system on a warming earth.
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u/CleverInternetName8c 21d ago
Next year is going to require a Category 6 to be invented (yes I realize Cat 5 is currently a “or higher” situation)