See: Record Marine Heatwave Hits Mediterranean Sea “Marine heat waves are relatively unknown to scientists, with research papers on these ocean temperatures starting to appear only in 2013. The phenomenon has since become a key signal of climate change — for decades oceans have absorbed most of the…

In the US mainland, tornado alley is drifting to the southeast as the jet stream shifts farther north. In a historically rare event, the ABC islands just got raked by a tropical cyclone and a tropical wave behind it is headed in the same direction. Possibly related to marine hot/cold waves?

It was a tropical disturbance and not technically a cyclone. Also there were no “Marine Heat or cold Waves” anywhere nearby. Sea Temperatures were near normal. [image]

[image] fredwx: there were no “Marine Heat or cold Waves” anywhere nearby. I was thinking more along the lines of a butterfly effect.

Nature seeks equilibrium so the butterfly effect (aka tipping point) is highly overrated. There are likely about 100 tropical waves each season in the North Atlantic but only about 10% become tropical cyclones. There are currently 3-4 tropical waves. [image]

Late June saw a semi-stationary upper ridge over the west-central Mediterranean which allowed for clear skies and thus very warm surface temperatures to heat-up sea surface. The Marine Heat Wave here is directly related to the prevailing weather pattern above. [image] [image]

[image] Climate Change The dry weather in East Africa may be related to a “Marine Cold Wave” that persists over the western Arabian Sea. So higher temps in the GOM loop current have no effect on the land mass directly north of it. Got it.

Spoke to a friend in Aruba. The event was overhyped and underwhelming.

Granted I may have stretched the meaning of the butterfly effect to accommodate my point but I’m in good company. Ben Franklin had his own take on it long before Lorenz coined the phrase: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost, For want of a horse the rider wa…

Seems like a simple case of somebody forgot to chain the damn thing down… From today’s WAPO [edited at…]: On Friday, “heavy weather” swept a state-of-the-art fighter jet off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman into the Mediterranean Sea, the Navy reported Sunday in a news release.…

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