the most exciting announcements tonight since the hyperloop.
has the volatility of hurricane strengths increased with global warming? within the lifetime of a particular storm and/or across the population of storms?
@louis i hope it’s not too terrible there.
The 8pm track projects the center of the eye coming right over the Sarasota/Bradenton Airport, maybe a mile from the Center of the Universe (Palm Court, #NewCollege).
That's where we used to have our end of the world parties, when lesser storms showed up. The music still echoes, provoking ghost noise complaints from now evacuated neighbors.
Close up screenshot of NOAA's forecast track for Hurricane Milton, crossing the grounds of the Sarasota/Bradenton Airport just north of New College.
Milton's forecast track is within 10 miles of #NewCollege of Florida.
By far the most wonderful place I ever lived, for the past two years vandals like Ron DeSantis and Chris Rufo have been dismantling the college at an institutional level.
Maybe the algorithm doesn't like what they've done. Maybe it's helping them finish the job. Mysterious ways.
Screenshot of NOAA interactive track of Hurricane Milton, annotated with the position of New College a labeling of the track near the college.
it’s the end of the world as we know it. and there are profit opportunities in that!
it’s CPI that looms. what else were you thinking?
headline from https://finance.yahoo.com/
headline from finance.yahoo.com: Dow, S&P 500 vault to fresh records as CPI looms
@jalefkowit @wordshaper still do, saw it last night.
@zoom_earth @jrefior are those “bumps” the supercells causing tornados from central to eastern florida?
The frequency of extreme weather events has increased dramatically. Hypotheses:
1. This is a long predicted effect of global warming.
2. Insidious actors have developed a weather control device which they r weaponizing for mysterious purposes.
Which is more parsimonious? Depends upon your priors!
This is some picture.
via #MichaelLowry https://michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/milton-closes-in-nightmare-forecast
Photograph of gigantic Hurricane Milton bearing down on Florida, the penninsula’s shape framed by the bright lights of its coastal conurbations, with interior cities like Orlando clearly marked.
@louis There are those hurricanes that just curl up into the North Atlantic. Isaac this season.
“A fully developed hurricane releases heat energy that is the equivalent of a 10-megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes — more than all the energy used at a given time by humanity, according to National Hurricane Center tropical analysis chief Chris Landsea.” https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2024/10/can-humans-control-the-path-and-power-of-hurricanes-like-milton-or-helene-no-chance-scientists-say.html
when people describe some piece of information as having “just dropped”, usually it’s best to treat it as droppings.
“To lie without shame about everything…is to show contempt for the idea that you can reason with or persuade other people. It is to attempt to shape their reality so that they can’t really disagree. It is to demand obedience to a narrative. It is to cultivate the habits of autocracy.” @jbouie https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/opinion/helene-trump-vance-fema.html
“the libs are always blaming fossil fuels when it was obviously solar power that heated up the Gulf.”
life these days feels like fleeing from the devil, taking a minute to catch your breath if you are lucky enough to make it.
the news cycle is such a distraction from the actual news.
it turns out, humans don’t actually make for very effective shields.