"significant chance that the Pacific Ocean returns to a La Niña state by spring this year, increasing the chances of wet weather across eastern Australia in spring and summer."
"It was Peruvian fishermen, hundreds of years ago, who first noticed the unusually warm ocean currents that would appear in some years near South America, disrupting their fisheries and triggering heavy rainfall across the lands... "
Idalia got me thinking about how many storms have hit #Florida the past few years. I found this #hurdat dataset from #NOAA, then used #googleColab to spin up a #python notebook. Sure enough, as is known already, Tropical Storms are becoming more frequent.
This all reminds me of old articles from #theOnion that would quote studies from "The Center for really Obvious Things". I have more questions than answers now. How did #NOAA data collection change over time? Did they miss/undersize a few storms before having satellite imagery? Do the fluctuations on these charts coincide with #elNiño, #LaNiña? Are we ready to stop using #fossilFuel yet?
New study suggests #ClimateChange will result in multi-year #ENSO events. i.e. like the triple-dip #LaNina we just had. Or the current #ElNino may go on for several years.
"Extrem besorgt": Globale Meerestemperatur gegenwärtig viel zu hoch
Eigentlich sinkt die Oberflächentemperatur der Weltmeere etwa ab Mitte März. In diesem Jahr steigt sie aber immer weiter. Die Warnungen werden immer lauter.
The global oceans are extraordinarily warm right now--so much so that the margin by which current records are being broken is itself record-breaking. That is even more remarkable as #LaNina has just faded, and #ElNino is only now beginning to influence ocean sfc temperatures. https://t.co/fkryBfNjE1