EarthSky reports:
NASA's Terra satellite just released this August 29 image of Hurricanes Kilo, Ignacio, and Jimena, all Category Four Hurricanes. According to the Weather Channel:
This is the first recorded occurrence of three Category 4 hurricanes in the central and eastern Pacific basins at the same time. In addition, it's also the first time with three major hurricanes (Category 3 or stronger) in those basins simultaneously, according to hurricane specialist Eric Blake of the National Hurricane Center.
[...]On Sunday, August 30, from west to east, Hurricane Kilo was located 1,210 miles west-southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, Hurricane Ignacio was located 515 miles east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii, and Hurricane Jimena was located 1,815 miles east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:28PM
Last month was the hottest July, globally, that we've ever recorded. I'm sure it just an aboration.
Oh, and then there is this http://www.weather.com/news/climate/news/earth-record-warmest-january-june-2015 [weather.com][so were the first 6 months of this year.]
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:32PM
You misunderstand. I'm fully aware that global warming is serious, real, and human induced. The evidence so far does not substantially link it to hurricane seasons in any way according to all the literature I've read.
El Nino, on the other hand, has a well known(though not entirely well understood) relationship.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by ikanreed on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:37PM
Oh, also, El Nino is going to spike (almost) all our temperature readings for the year also: you know how the deniers like to start graphs with 1998 because that was(until now) the hottest recent year? Yeah, El Nino was the force behind a substantial amount of that inter-annual variation.
(Score: 1) by dingus on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:50PM
It's a harmonic thing. El Nino and La Nina do their normal cyclical jazz, but they will probably get more and more pronounced/frequent as time goes on.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:37AM
I've seen one paper broaching the subject with a maybe. Do you got something bigger?
(Score: 1) by dingus on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:51AM
No, just me talking out my ass. I assume we'll see more weather extremes in the next few centuries though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:02PM
Don't let your emotional reaction overshadow your analytics. Ikanreed's first point was to acknowledge AGW.