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posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the Triple-Event dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:28PM (#230974)

    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

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:32PM (#230978) Journal

    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

      by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:37PM (#230979) Journal

      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

      by dingus (5224) on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:50PM (#231016)

      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

        by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:37AM (#231076) Journal

        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

          by dingus (5224) on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:51AM (#231087)

          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

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:02PM (#230985)

    Don't let your emotional reaction overshadow your analytics. Ikanreed's first point was to acknowledge AGW.