9.27.2004

Hurricaust!

'Jon here, brain soaked with pabst on friday evening, wondering why all the sudden lambasting of the florida peninsula with the hurricanes, wondering if four majors is only the beginning of a 'Hurricaust' (YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!) of a season for them, wondering what affect this will have on the midwesterner, and wondering where andy hid the bottle opener....'

Divine Retribution.

Actually, I don't know. The Hurricane Prediction Center predicted an above average year for hurricanes based on a number of variables such as wind shears and ocean temperatures and trade winds, which are too boring to explain here unless you really want to know, all of which are related to this 'multi-decadal signal', which as far as I can tell is scientific shorthand for 'the conditions necessary for hurricane formation fluctuate roughly every few decades and we don't know why'. If you want to know all of the details of this, ask me again, but I warn you it is very complicated and dull. Unlike the Hurricast! Which could continue because the season doesn't end until mid-october. None of this affects the midwesterner, it just makes us feel better about ourselves.

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