Today, June 1 is the official start of the 2025 hurricane season. The articles I have read suggest a worse than usual hurricane season with a federal government less prepared for it.
NOAA predicts above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season: Above-average Atlantic Ocean temperatures set the stage
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-above-normal-2025-atlantic-hurricane-season
It might be a bit delayed:
This phenomenon is closely watched by meteorologists in cities such as Cape Coral and Fort Myers because when the Saharan Air Layer is present, hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding areas is often reduced, providing a temporary break during the six months of hurricane season.
Dry air inherently lacks moisture, which makes it difficult for hurricanes to get going. If a tropical system manages to begin gathering strength when a Saharan Air Layer is above, the increased wind shear can pull the developing system apart.
And we’ve already had Tropical Storm Alvin.
Waiting on Theodore and Simon to catch up.
Worth noting that Alvin was a Pacific basin storm.
The United States is almost certain to have at least one major storm make landfall. The current climate calls for it. It’s just a matter of where, and how bad it will be.
My money’s on something in the Atlantic coming ashore on the east coast.
And it brought us rain in Tucson! Dances around, splashing puddles
Are there any graphics showing NOAA hurricane season predictions (i.e. for this century) and how they actually turned our?
FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say
Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation. The remark was made during a briefing by David Richardson, who has led FEMA since early May.
Here’s some more utterly foolish unnecessary excitement from the morons in Washington:
But wait, there’s more:
I’m not sure that doesn’t belong in the Stupid MFers In The News thread.
What the hell do they think they are doing? Does the current administration think that hurricanes won’t happen if they’re not predicted?
I would love to know. Hurricanes don’t care what your political party is.
However if Mar a Lardo gets washed into the ocean, I would laugh. Heartily.
You’d have lots of company.
However, I gather that’s unlikely to happen unless a whole lot of other people, many of them reasonably innocent, also take a great deal of damage; up to and in some cases including their lives.
They “think” (and I use that term loosely)
See, when you explain it like this the “logic” is inescapable.
Also, possibly:
Actually, you replied to my v1 post which didn’t make that point. I later inserted #5 to make that same point after you captured my post but before you completed yours.
Great minds …
Of course, the private weather companies are getting their information from NOAA. All the other weather prediction people are also getting screwed.
Though maybe Musk thinks he’ll be able to replicate with his own satellites.
– I think you also missed 8:
The people making these decisions all think that they themselves have places on high ground/designed to survive hurricanes and are therefore themselves safe from damage, let alone from drowning or having the place blow down on top of them.
Some of them may be wrong about that.
(Why on earth does Discourse think that if I want to indent a paragraph I also want to shrink it and put it into a different font?)
Because indention is a standard feature of computer programming languages. And not something anyone uses on ordinary paragraphs any more. So it assumes indented text is a snip from a computer program in a programming language. Something like this:
protected override int DoCompare(Item item1, Item item2)
{
try
{
DateTime thisDate = ((DateField)item1.Fields["Create Date"]).DateTime;
DateTime thatDate = ((DateField)item2.Fields["Create Date"]).DateTime;
return thatDate.CompareTo(thisDate);
}
catch (Exception)
{
return 0; // Sorry, ran out of budget!
}
}
If what you really wanted was to move the left margin in, so the whole paragraph, not just the first line, is pushed over there are three ways to do that.
Start it with an asterisk plus space like this:
* The people making these decisions all think that they themselves have places on high ground/designed to survive hurricanes and are therefore themselves safe from damage, let alone from drowning or having the place blow down on top of them.
gives
OR
Start it with a number, period, space combo like this:
8. The people making these decisions all think that they themselves have places on high ground/designed to survive hurricanes and are therefore themselves safe from damage, let alone from drowning or having the place blow down on top of them.
gives
(which is how I did my list.)
OR use unmarked list codes at the front and back of your paragraph(s) like this:
<ul>The people making these decisions all think that they themselves have places on high ground/designed to survive hurricanes and are therefore themselves safe from damage, let alone from drowning or having the place blow down on top of them.</ul>
gives
See? Easy peasy. 