2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

I'll take a snoozer a season long.

 

This should be the absolute peak of hurricane season—but it’s dead quiet out there



Perhaps what is most striking about this season is that we are now at the absolute peak of hurricane season, and there is simply nothing happening. Although the Atlantic season begins on June 1, it starts slowly, with maybe a storm here or there in June, and often a quiet July before the deep tropics get rolling in August. Typically about half of all activity occurs in the 14 weeks prior to September 10, and then in a mad, headlong rush the vast majority of the remaining storms spin up before the end of October.

 

I blame Driftwood and his cellphone containing private messages with high-ranking officials in the National Hurricane Center.

 

People in Alabama are just one Sharpie pen away from disaster.

 

Most of the models have the storm in the Pacific pushing across the North American landmass and causing Fiona to curve the way it is. Good for that storm.

 

Puerto Rico is taking a bath today. Fiona is a slow-moving Cat 1, and it's dropping tons of rain that is leading to flooding and mudslides.
All the tracks have it still hanging a hard right turn and sparing the Bahamas. Bermuda may get some unwanted attention, though.

 

Puerto Rico has received 27 inches of rain so far and power is out all over the island.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/19/hurricane-fiona-puerto-rico-live-updates/

 

Fuck. I think we're gonna need more paper towels.

 

All the models have it picking up to Cat 3 by Wednesday but remaining a fish storm once it clears Hispaniola.

 

He's not threatening to hold a rally there ... is he?