Warm oceans are extending the threat of hurricanes into the holiday season

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hurricane-threat-ocean-warming-holiday-b2637469.html

by theindependentonline

3 comments
  1. Sing it with me now

    “Gramma got run over by a storm surge; Walking home from our house Christmas Eve; You may say the climate isn’t changing; As for me and Grampa we believe….”

  2. Given the S-curve nature of ocean surface warming (well, best case scenario it’s an S-curve, if it’s just exponential you might as well stop all 401k contributions), we’re probably going to get to the point of there no longer really being a hurricane season (because there is no longer a “non-hurricane season” which requires counter-identification) within a decade or so

    It’s already gone from “hurricane season is mid june through the end of october” (what I heard growing up and as recently as the 2010s) to “beginning of june to end of november” being firmly established at present. Give it a couple more years, it’ll be beginning of April-end of December, and then you’re at the point where you’ve got a total of three shrinking months of not expecting hurricanes. Wonder how long it’ll take to get all the way there?

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