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Atlantic unusually quiet at hurricane season's peak, but warm waters to fuel storms soon
Atlantic unusually quiet at hurricane season's peak, but warm waters to fuel storms soon

Don't jinx it!

Folks try and blame anything that happens now on climate change, including any paucity of  hurricanes.  It's amusing.

Hell, I just think we are getting lucky so far.

I think this is obvious, weather (and hurricanes) are largely unpredictable in terms of the short term and their genesis and frequency.  Ocean Ts may be conducive to their formation and as we see nothing happens, or something does happen.  But until someone can explain all of it, I don't think we can just say Hurricane X was because ocean Ts are high as a single variable.

I expect the hurricane prediction folks to downside their prediction again, which to me is cheating.  

This stuff is WAY more complicated than our modeling can manage in my opinion.  They can start to do "OK" when something forms, usually, but even then they get surprised.

Hitachi Energy successfully deployed its first-ever customer HyFlex hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) generator in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where the generator will replace an equivalent diesel generator producing 500-kilovolt-amperes (kVA). In doing so, the HyFlex-powered construction site will save 200,000 gallons of diesel fuel per year, and reduce the company’s carbon-dioxide emissions by ~2,900 tons.

https://electrek.co/2025/09/09/worlds-first-hitachi-energy-powers-up-construction-site-with-hydrogen-genset/

Like an automotive fuel cell, the HyFlex generator delivers electricity and usable heat with almost no noise, and each mWh of power requires about 70 kg of hydrogen (compared to just over 70 gallons of diesel for the same amount, which would produce more than 700 kg of CO₂).

“At Hitachi Energy, we are committed to providing innovative solutions and technologies that inspire the next era of sustainable energy,” explains Marco Berardi Head of Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service, Hitachi Energy. “We recognize that the entire energy ecosystem needs to move in the same direction. We are proud to have showcased HyFlex in the Netherlands, thanks to a unique collaboration with key industry players.”

Hold it off a little longer --- I'll be in Destin from Sept. 21-26.

The last time we went in September, around these same dates, we did get caught in a hurricane.

This one:  

Sally


Pensacola, a coastal town on the westernmost edge of Florida's panhandle, is still reeling from the impacts of Sally, a hurricane that made landfall as a slow-moving Category 2 storm in September 2020 and dumped incredible amounts of rain as it hovered over the region.Sep 18, 2023