17 points RickJWagner 2 hours ago 15 comments
treetalker 1 hour ago | parent
The end of the post touches on it, but couldn’t this be foreshadowing the really bad El Niño that they’ve been talking about?
delichon 13 minutes ago | parent
For us in the southwest it looks like a good El Niño. We are deeply in drought, but just maybe we may already be seeing the start of a wet fall.
eagerpace 14 minutes ago | parent
I thought the warming waters were supposed to increase the number of hurricanes?
Veliladon 11 minutes ago | parent
El Niño sends the jet stream southward. Once the jet stream gets far enough south it tears apart any developing storms in the Gulf and Caribbean Sea before they have a chance to become a problem.
fhdkweig 9 minutes ago | parent
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/will-2026-go-down-w... says:
> Given the strong and still-strengthening El Niño, which tends to reduce the number of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic basin while boosting numbers in the Pacific, there is some chance that this season could end on Nov. 30 with no hurricanes.
But I am not liking this site. Both articles are mostly just restating "this is really rare" in 5+ different ways without explaining why. If anyone has a better site, a link would be most appreciated.
wewewedxfgdf 12 minutes ago | parent
Such good news.
fhdkweig 7 minutes ago | parent
Only in the Atlantic Ocean. In the Pacific, Hawaii has had back-to-back hurricanes for the last few weeks. Lala, Lowell, Karina, Norbert. They haven't made landfall there, but have come close enough to send flash floods and high storm surges.