hurricanes,hurricanes where are you?

https://www.wfla.com/weather/climat...ind-the-slow-hurricane-season-and-whats-next/

Clearly, something is going on in the North Atlantic. The surface ocean temperatures are up to 14 degrees above normal. This odd distribution of heat is clearly at least a part of what is throwing the Atlantic Tropical season off-kilter.

Now typically blobs of ocean heat and cold are caused by prevailing weather conditions. And while the ocean temperatures themselves can feedback on and impact the atmospheric pattern, the weather patterns are the determining factor. In other words, the prevailing weather pattern this summer has likely intensified the North Atlantic Ocean heatwave – so the heatwave is a symptom of what is disrupting the Atlantic hurricane season.

In an active hurricane season, the textbook pattern would be for a sprawling high-pressure system – sometimes called the Bermuda high – to be centered across the subtropical Atlantic. That type of system, pictured below, helps guide tropical waves and storms westward toward the US. It also blocks the jet stream – and associated wind shear and dry air – in the North Atlantic from invading the tropics.

But this textbook pattern has not been in place this summer – far from it. Instead, the tendency has been for the high to be much smaller and further north. This has helped fuel the ocean heat wave. And the position of the high has enabled something called wave breaking. This is essentially when the jet stream becomes elongated north to south and unstable, with pieces breaking off at times.

 

What did one Florida palm tree say to the other as the hurricane approached?


Hold on to your nuts, this is going to be one hell of a blow job.

 

If you have to hold your own nuts, it's just a big depression.