Hurricane Hilary, doing business as a tropical storm, gave Southern California and Arizona much-needed rain. Yes, they had a lot of winter runoff, but they are terrible at managing it, so more is usually better.
The aquifers will be happy, as are the climate alarmists, but the Northern Atlantic and the Gulf are the new hotness.
Three depressions, one of them a named Storm (Franklin), are milling about. Franklin has 90-mile-per-hour winds and is projected to brush past Bermuda but is not currently a threat to anything else (cue Hey, It’s Franklin).
Invest 92L is a disorganized mess east of Franklin, visible in the image above. NOAA projects a 10% chance of cyclone formation in the next 48 hours, and while we wait, we’ve got Tropical Depression 10 currently over the Yucatan Peninsula.
With maximum sustained winds of 35 miles per hour, TD10 is poised to pick up strength as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico before landing in North Florida and the Panhandle. Moving at five mph, it is forecast to reach hurricane strength before making landfall in three days, which would give us our first actual hurricane of the season. Governor DeSantis has already declared a state of emergency to mobilize resources.
Looking further out, other than Invest 92L, nothing new has formed on the Western Coast of Africa, but we are in the heart of Hurricane Season until the end of September, and after several months of mucking about, it is game on!
There is nothing left to do now but prepare for the climate hysteria and wait to see what sort of storm hits the coast.
If you’d like to geek out, The Heartland Institute’s Climate Change Round Table #77 focuses on Hurricane Season, the warm Atlantic, and some regular features you might find fun or disturbing – we won’t judge.
