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2024-06-21 03:13:32 UTC
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PermalinkThen SERIOUS HEAT & FIRE - now, oddly, MIXED
with FLOODS in New Mexico.
Last week there was a piddly 'invest' that
crossed Florida but caused emergency-declarations
after dumping over 24 inches of rain in a number
of locations, including Miami/Ft.Lauderdale metro.
Yea, Florida rain means fuckin' RAIN.
Today - a BARELY tropical storm going in to
MEXICO caused serious flooding in a bunch
of southeast Texas towns ... tides immediately
flooded the streets and more. News crews were
up to their asses.
There are signs of another TS forming near
Mexico - this one expected to trend a bit
further south. Meanwhile there's a new
spin-up off Florida - kinda headed towards
the Georgia coast.
El Nino has rapidly died off - La Nina will
be emerging again (seems more the norm now).
As in the past few la Nina years, this may
mean a LOT of very bad storms coming up
to the gulf coast - Texas to Florida - and
a few biggies hitting from SC on up to
New England. All these areas are highly
populated/developed. Last year one storm
TRASHED several big SW Florida cities,
the losses were IMMENSE.
Most INSURERS are DROPPING such areas - can't
get/afford most any kind of property insurance.
The demographics/economics that used to make
insurance profitable ain't there anymore. They
are also dropping fire/quake/ice-storm areas,
so it ain't just hurricanes. In short you
can only get insurance if you DON'T NEED IT.
This is gonna trend-out in the next year or
two when existing policies expire.
Is this "GW" ? Hard to say. Weather follows
long-term trends of unknown origin. A few
old S.American civs died off because of
severe DROUGHTS 700-2000 years ago. Why
drought in whats now steamy JUNGLE ?
Wasn't because of SUVs folks. The really
old civs - Sumeria and friends - their
areas USED to be quite green, now desert.
An ice-age came, and went, and screwed-up
everything humans saw as "normal". The
"world flood" wasn't - just lots of LOCAL
floods from glacial melt-water to the north.
The changes in today's el Nino/la Nina cycles
will surely drive a lot of weather weirdness.
ONE odd climate weirdness in the medieval
era SEEMS to have been traced to our solar
system passing through a cosmic dust cloud.
It slightly decreased sunlight but also
caused magnetic/ionospheric issues that
eventually reflected in lower-level changes.
In particular, Europe kinda froze over for
a few years. Volcanoes can also cause
that, but in THIS case ...
Humans make large, LARGE, investments in what
they see as "normal" weather. If "normal"
changes .......