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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAbnormally warm Gulf of Mexico could intensify the upcoming tornado and hurricane seasons
Water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico are running more than three degrees above average, increasing the prospects for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes this spring and potentially stronger hurricane activity in the summer and fall.
The last time Gulf of Mexico waters were similarly warm in 2017, it coincided with an above-average tornado season through the spring, and then Category 4 Hurricane Harvey struck the Texas Gulf Coast at the end of summer.
The balmy gulf waters have already contributed to abnormal warmth across the Deep South, where virtually the entirety of the Interstate 10 corridor through Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia is wrapping up one of its top five warmest Marches on record. Numerous records have toppled, with some cities soaring into the 90s.
The heat was most prevalent in regions that bordered the gulf. According to the Southeast Regional Climate Center, cities such as Brownsville, Tex., Corpus Christi, Tex., Houston, New Orleans, Mobile, Ala., and parts of Florida have all seen their warmest Marches on record.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/03/31/gulf-of-mexico-warm-tornadoes-hurricanes/
I think 2020 will be a year long remembered for many awful reasons.
rampartc
(5,435 posts)where will they evacuate hundreds of patients on ventilators? the plugs will pull themselves,
HAB911
(8,912 posts)Zorro
(15,749 posts)Earthquakes, wildfires...with an insane nincompoop "leading" government responses.
It will be the perfect shitstorm.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)Especially if it foreshadows new volcanic activity in the area.
Craters of the Moon includes several dormant volcanic fissures and isn't far from the quake location.
Last thing the environment needs is rift eruptions and formation of new flood basalt regions.
Plus any volcanism remotely near yellowstone would be alarming