The Atlantic hurricane season remains weirdly quiet. Many metrics are marginally above climatic averages for this point in the season, but that's entirely due to one big early storm (Beryl.) Three months ago, the record-breakingly ridiculous sea surface temps implied many, large, powerful hurricanes, and the
#EotS comments were full of confident predictions of armagedfkn, especially from the more simple-minded elements of the "no normal any more" climate
#doomer brigade. What they failed to anticipate is that weirdness doesn't automatically mean "bad for humans". (This is not to imply there's no
#climatecrisis or that
#AGW is good news, of course.) And there's still 10 weeks or so for the MDR to settle down, waves to return to normal latitudes, etc, with monster storms as a result... I'm just sayin'.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/where-are-the-hurricanes-the-atlantics-late-august-nap-may-lead-into-a-stormy-september/