2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

Heck, there are still places in that part of Duplin County you can still see the signs. Of course, a lot of those folks didn't have the resources to recover well.

 

"Happy" happy. WU SZN.

Last year was stupid in spite of El Niño. When the oceans are boiling, an ordinary storm can dial up to a Cat 5 in no time.

 

"Colorado State University, a prominent hurricane and tropical weather forecast center," has to be one of the great non-sequiturs in academia. Sounds like "the University of Miami, a prominent predictor of blizzards, ..."

 

“Meanwhile, in America, the bedrock of a free and benevolent society ... ”

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...cane-season-2024-danger/73889241007/?tbref=hp

"The whole tropical Atlantic is warmer than its ever been for this time of year," McNoldy told USA TODAY on Thursday. It's sitting at temperatures normally not seen until mid-August. And, "the Caribbean is going crazy."

 

I miss being able to get to the salt water quickly for an impulse fishing trip, but I'm grateful that my home is not anywhere close to the gulf.

Sad but true.

 

Me, too. Miss living on the water.
Katrina was the end.

 

I've been four hours or so from the salt water for thirty plus years now. When I lived in Houston, I could jump on I-10 and be wade fishing the flats at Anhuac in 45 minutes or so. Galveston was a bit farther, but I did a good bit of fishing around there. Been quite a while for me. /sad

 

And we're off . . .

Atlantic season's first tropical storm, Alberto, forms over the Gulf

 

Just in time for my week at Gulf Shores!

 

The jellyfish are your bigger concern there. Well that and the entire Midwest creating traffic jams all the way down.