Feels like…a concern…
The latest hurricane is a rare product of the southwest Gulf of Mexico, rather than the Caribbean or the Atlantic.
Milton started as Tropical Depression 14, in the Gulf’s Bay of Campeche, sheltered behind the western coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
A hurricane taking that path, from the Bay of Campeche to Florida, is exceptionally rare — the last time it was recorded happening was in 1867.
The footage in the linked tweet is terrifying. That’s an apocalyptic looking storm!
https://x.com/valbistan/status/1843925314403217876?s=46&t=VIFL5UYjxd376tbe4uqp6A
Not just the trajectory of this this thing but the intensification, it went from a Cat 2 to to a Cat 5 literally overnight. Every tenth of a degree matters. And every tenth of a degree is far worse than the last.
If this monster wasn’t bad enough, it’s bringing tornadoes with it
Some flooding already being reported with Milton around 5-6 hours away from landfall. But, in some good news the wind shear seems to be weakening it a little and hopefully it can do a number on it and bring it down a category or two.
Fingers crossed for the many souls that are still there and for the dwellings of so many, especially those that are uninsured.
This is not the time to be talking about climate change!
Meanwhile, in spite of everything, progress …
Victoria turns on what will be world’s biggest onshore wind farm (theage.com.au)
Is that how they erect them…
Friday…
The initial forecast cone for Milton released 5 days out from landfall was ony 15 km off. Amazing they can predict that so far out with that much accuracy. Science, huh.
Animated cone progression here:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2024/MILTON_graphics.php?product=5day_cone_with_line
I have a northern european complexion with a skin condition exasperated by heat, pray for me, this one is gonna be nasty
Move to Tassie
Very interesting video, Scania are under no illusions that electric trucks are a hard sell.
Notwithstanding this, Scania are building 40t, 60t & 80t electric trucks, and the batteries alone in each truck weigh 4 tonnes but they move silently so how good would they be for dwellers who live near a main road.
They’re getting worried about not having enough wage slaves in 20 years. My partner conceived 9 years ago, and I am not sure we would make the same decision today. It absolutely makes perfect sense for people to think twice now.
Remember when @benfti took umbrage at someone calling an indigenous player a Scania, thinking it was a racist term.
No…a Scania is a sh*t truck! Not b a bad truck but one often used to transport excrement…a night truck in the old parlance.
I remember when @Reboot defended Scanias from the abuse they were getting here being linked by analogy to shithouse players, saying that Scania made very good trucks.
I recently watched this video…I watched it all the way through:
I thought the presentation was interesting.
I probably don’t agree with everything in this guy’s belief system (I looked up: he appears to be Catholic with 4 kids)…but much of the presentation is straightforward facts.
Whilst watching it, I had one particular realisation: there must already be a huge number of countries experiencing a shrinking in the number of midwives, kindergartens, primary schools etc…the early-stages-of-life already thinning out…and it’s only going to become more prevalent.
I welcome it. I think the only way to get to net zero is to slash the global population…off the top of my head, I’ve been carrying a wild guesstimate in my head of 4 billion people…I recently looked up when we last had that many people: ~1975…lots of people scaremonger about the collapse of the human population, when we functioned with 4b people as recently as 1975.
