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For sure. Much more population near the ocean is one issue why it would be way worse now, than in 1938. But ya…it’s just a matter of time.

Thanks for the stats. Yeah, the last decade or so has really changed my views when it comes to Atlantic Hurricane Seasons. Several of my own personal tropes have been thrown to the wayside. 1. A high end Cat 4 hurricane can only strike Florida, and likely most places anywhere in the United States before late September. You wont see high end Category 4 storms striking areas of the Bahamas or around the east coast of Florida after late September. Joaquin 2015, Matthew 2016, and Michael 2018 threw that away. 2. All major hurricanes tend to weaken at landfall on the north Gulf Coast. Michael 2018, Laura 2020, Ida 2021 and Helene 2024 threw that one away. 3. A Category 5 landfall on the North Gulf Coast is highly unlikely, and Camille 1969 was likely overestimated in strength. See: Hurricane Michael 919 mb. 4. A strengthening Category 5 hurricane into landfall on the North Gulf Coast in MID-OCTOBER is not possible. Again, see: Michael 2018. 5. September 10th is the peak of the season. Honestly, it should be October 1st at this point. 6. The Big Bend rarely gets hurricanes. B.S. I have seen more maps of the Big Bend the last ten years than I can count.

Only a matter of time, because wx will be wx. Our mistake as humans is thinking we’re immune to Mother Nature.

I have NG here but if we have a warm winter that will help many with oil heat and crazy costs

The scary part is….its only a matter of time before it happens again. Maybe we don’t live to see it happen again…but it most certainly will.

80 here dp 70.

It was 48 this morning.

Yes perhaps, but one would also need to include the costs for lower lifespan of solar and wind, the costs for recycling the very hard-to-recycle materials, the environmental costs of the things that can't be recycled (e.g. carbon-fiber blades), the costs for acquiring the land (including the huge amount of community-by-community fights that inevitably happens), the environmental costs of dead and disturbed wildlife - birds, whales, etc. (how to quantify?), and of cleared balsa forests, the cost for additional land and steel required for additional transmission lines, etc. etc. Also keeping in mind that this does not scale linearly. As the scale of projects get larger and larger (e.g. Spanberger's proposal for 277,000 acres of solar in Virginia), it drives the costs of material - e.g. silver for solar panels - up, due to their relative scarcity. These things are not nearly as simple as people make them out to be, due to the immense amount of factors, which is why you have to look at the bigger picture, such as what's been happening in Europe (and to a smaller extent the US). I mean - just step back and think about it. Electricity prices (especially in Europe) have been rising - faster than inflation. Is it because of rising oil prices? No - it can't be, because we don't use oil for generating electricity. Is it because of the price of coal? No - that's generally been flat (save for a big spike in 2022) since 2008 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-prices. Is it because of the price of Natural gas? No - that's been *down* the last couple of decades: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/rngwhhdm.htm. Why then? Why have electricity prices been going up so much? Is it just coincidence that it happens to be happening at the same time as we've pushing for replacement of fossil plants with renewable? No. Keep in mind that this is *despite* the money that's been flowing into the renewable energy industry, vis a vis our taxes. Without that electricity prices would be even higher. (and lest one be tempted to blame the price increase on increased demand from AI and data centers - keep in mind that the electricity prices started getting higher long before that recent demand spike) P.S. that Fresh Energy link is from what is essentially a renewable energy lobbying organization - extremely biased. The EIA link doesn't really provide any useful information for the conversation.

Ugh!

Enjoy it while we can.

2021 and 2023 were warm in October and cool in November before torching in December. Then again, those were -QBO years, with 2021 being a la nina. 2023 was a strong nino. If I remember correctly, 2015 had a very warm late August and September. October was the odd cool month in the bunch.

Currently 81° with a 67° DP…summers revenge .

He can’t help himself. Lol

Yeah whenever I left Asheville this morning it was 54 degrees there. A big difference but Asheville sucks. Sorry guys lol.

Every day that I don't have to burn $6/gal oil is a win.

How can one not have faith and trust a snowy forecast from someone named SnowbirdBob?!!

...only idiots want to experience a repeat of 38. I'd like to know how many people here have taken the time to read the fine print in their homeowners insurance policy. I guarantee most people here have done little in the way of preparation for a storm of that magnitude. ..the butter knives in the draw are sure going to scare off looters..lol...perhaps they can toss some acorns at them to scare them off..