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MACDONALD: 1915 and 1927

September 26, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Until this year, 1914 was the least active Atlantic Basin hurricane season on record. I know, on record doesn’t mean much. If the Earth is 4 billion years old, the absence of 3.9999999999… billion years’ worth of records makes any predictions or remembrances appear insignificant. And so they are, but what interests me isn’t how … Read more

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MACDONALD: Guessing Games [Update]

September 17, 2025September 16, 2025 Steve MacDonald

If you live in New England, and maybe this is true everywhere, you can’t trust the weather forecast more than a day or two out. The joke in the northeast is that if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes. And it’s all fun and games until you talk about climate change – by … Read more

MACDONALD: Climate Change vs. Climate Change

September 6, 2025September 6, 2025 Steve MacDonald

If you look up any subject area linked to Climate change (pro-tip, they are all linked), you’ll get more manure than you can manage with a fleet of shit spreaders. The mass of material is copious and contradicts itself, always with a perfectly straight, I am science sort of face. This is serious business we’re … Read more

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MACDONALD: The Climate Cult Holds Its Breath

August 24, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Hurricane Erin wandered about the Atlantic, creating storm surge, rip tides, and heavy surf, but not a lot else. Not the sort of damage the Climateers use as tribute to their cause. They want wreckage, flooding, and a pile of dead bodies on that altar. Look what you did! As if they are gods who … Read more

FEMA Better Get Its ****! Together Because Trouble is Brewing in the Gulf

October 6, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The climate crazies are getting their hurricane season peak a month late this year because (same as always) trying to live a comfortable lifestyle broke the planet. September started to show some promise a bit late, but October? We’ve got more cyclones than you can shake a hockey stick at. And while FEMA does bureaucratic … Read more

There Will Be Lots of Guessing – Most of It Will Be Wrong

September 2, 2024 Steve MacDonald

One of the risks of writing about hurricanes a day before the content is published is that they can form in the interim. This has happened to me before, but not so much this year. That’s odd. All the indicators suggested a knock-down drag-out storm-a-palooza of a season. It has yet to materialize only days … Read more

More Hurricanes Ministry Asks Us to Have Faith

August 24, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Google tossed this bone at me the other day. “National Hurricane Center tracking 4 tropical waves as we near the peak of storm season.” The headline comes from TC Palm, serving South Florida (part of USA Today). As an observer and blogger, I was caught by such things. Holy crap, I thought, here it comes! … Read more

Hurricane Beryl Getting Rave Reviews from Fearmongering Media

June 30, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Hurricane Season is finally perking up a notch. We’ve gone from a few tropical depressions to one named tropical storm to one actual hurricane. Beryl is currently a Category 3, north of French Guiana and Suriname.

Atlantic Hurricane Season is Almost Here – Get Your Climate Hyperbole Ready!

May 21, 2024 Steve MacDonald

You can feel it in the air (Phil Collins or Bernie Seigle?)—the promised energy of a heated Atlantic hurricane Season. The oceans are boiling, and we are overdue for an above-normal number of storms in the Atlantic Basin. This should be a banner year for storms.

NOAA “Above Average Hurricane Season” Prediction Update – No Named Storms in July/Aug

September 4, 2022 Steve MacDonald

In keeping with the Climate Cult’s inability to predict a damn thing (where are those Vegas odds I keep asking about?), the Atlantic hurricane season has stumped them again – with a feat not duplicated since 1941.

CNN, Dorian, and Alabama: Media v Trump

December 22, 2024September 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

In the void left by the absence of nearly non-stop collusion-coverage (is collusion even a real word?) Da’ Media has time to fill. Into that hole, they dropped this bomb. Trump showed the Hurricane heading to Alabama. What a dope. Not so, fast.

Now That Dorian is Only CAT 3 are We Talking About the Burning Amazon Again?

September 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The media crisis narrative is on a climate swivel. For days all we heard about were cataclysmic fires in the Amazon that were nothing special. When Dorian showed up the Amazon “problem” disappeared. I’m serious. The best search results were several days old.

Does a Hurricane Dorian Change Long Term Trends in Florida? No. [Update- No Florida Landfall]]

September 2, 2019 Steve MacDonald

First things first. A storm like this is an impressive natural display. There will be significant damage. But we must also remember that in 1900, when we started having reliable data, 1700 people lived in Miami. Today it is 2.7 Million. And all their stuff.

Is that Jesus or Just More Fake News from “tropical storm” Florence?

September 27, 2018September 20, 2018 Steve MacDonald

It’s not every day you get to see Jesus. How else do you explain walking on water (twice) just behind this reporter who is up to his knees in the stuff? H/T RCSB

Weather Channel Guy ‘Fighting High Winds’ More Fake News

September 27, 2018September 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

A quick preface. Florence is a hurricane. It’s causing flooding, wind damage, and as more and more people flock to live in these areas the risk to lives and damage to property increases. That is their choice. And so it this.

A weatherman reporting for the weather channel is having a rough go. He’s trying to do his report in what appears to be very high winds. Leaning forward, and shifting his stance to stay upright. He’s really working it. Thespis would be proud. Because while he’s giving his performance, two guys walk into the back of the shot and for some reason, the winds are different where they are.

This isn’t “Trump’s Hurricane” – He Inherited it.

September 27, 2018September 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The media is all aflutter with the implication that Mr. Trump and his destructive exit from the Paris Climate agreement is responsible for Hurricane Florence. If not the hurricane itself then it’s intensity. If not the intensity then the risk to human life and (what will undoubtedly be reported as) record high property damage.

There’s only one problem.

Fake Hurricane News – CNN Busted

May 4, 2023September 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Anderson Cooper reports from hurricane ‘ravaged’ [insert name here] wearing waders and up to his waist in water. But that’s only because he chose to stand in a ditch along the side of the road. His cameraman and technician, as you’ll see in the following image, are only up to their shins in water.

Free Market Gets Water To Hurricane Victims Faster…

September 26, 2018November 5, 2012 Steve MacDonald

The first supplies of bottled water to arrive to aid those affected by hurricane Sandy did not come from FEMA, which has a large staging area in Georgia stocked with pallet after pallet of bottled water for just such an occassion. Nestle America, without any coordination with FEMA or any government agency, provided half a million bottles (gratis) to a staging facility in Sommerset New Jersey, long before FEMA even got its water moving.

And So It Begins…

September 26, 2018October 29, 2012 Steve MacDonald

We already lost power at my house. Not surprising. Anyone want to start guessing how long it will take to get it back? Update from Skip: 1/2 hour ago, PSNH reported about 10,100 customers out. Just now, 20,100. Guess what just arrived!