That fucking tropical storm, I forgot to look for a picture of it. I think it was called 'Nuri' or something like it.
It distorted the jet stream and let loose the bitter cold of the polar airmass flow down into the middle of North America weeks too early.
We were not spared. Where it was 80 yesterday, it is 48 as I write this in the afternoon.
That is the thing about tropical storms, they affect everything.
Hurricane Season ends at the end of the month. It is still likely, well, if environment is conducive for it.
I will be cold for a while. I have turned on my heater for the first time since last April.
I have to shave later, smh. Can't let it go on too long, becomes hard to shave it. I will man up and do it.
Too bad I can't post a picture of my peena when I am cold. I think it is funny as it retracts like that. Okay, no more goofiness.
I'm cold!
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Friday, October 10, 2014
Ebola
I have been very upset. I reckon I might as well write about Ebola.
A long time ago, like when I was 18, I read 'The Hot Zone' by Preston. It tells the story of the 1976 Ebola epidemic in what had been Zaire in those days. My empathy, apparent even back then, stronger now, felt for those poor people who died in such a horrible way.
I know what Ebola can do. It is a hemorrhagic fever virus, causes fatal bleeding and organ failure. Prognosis is very grim.
It is a dangerous health threat, to be sure.
However, Ebola doesn't spread like the flu. A person with the symptoms is not in any shape to visit with people but that is no excuse to be lax in how you behave. Don't kiss, have sex, suck, whatever with the sick one. Don't handle what they use. Keep a distance even though you want to help.
It is unlikely to be a pandemic issue in the United States but both the CDC and the WHO say it can 'mutate', 'evolve' is how I see it, and one never can be too sure.
I won't worry about Ebola. My anxiety disorder is killing me. I need no outside help with that.
There is an Ebola outbreak on a smaller scale in the Congo right now. That is the strain that affected those people in the same region in 1976.
Sanitation isn't like it is here in parts of Africa. Customs are different as well. This is why it spreads there.
That very reason should allay fears of this virulent, extremely dangerous, viral disease affecting America.
A long time ago, like when I was 18, I read 'The Hot Zone' by Preston. It tells the story of the 1976 Ebola epidemic in what had been Zaire in those days. My empathy, apparent even back then, stronger now, felt for those poor people who died in such a horrible way.
I know what Ebola can do. It is a hemorrhagic fever virus, causes fatal bleeding and organ failure. Prognosis is very grim.
It is a dangerous health threat, to be sure.
However, Ebola doesn't spread like the flu. A person with the symptoms is not in any shape to visit with people but that is no excuse to be lax in how you behave. Don't kiss, have sex, suck, whatever with the sick one. Don't handle what they use. Keep a distance even though you want to help.
It is unlikely to be a pandemic issue in the United States but both the CDC and the WHO say it can 'mutate', 'evolve' is how I see it, and one never can be too sure.
I won't worry about Ebola. My anxiety disorder is killing me. I need no outside help with that.
There is an Ebola outbreak on a smaller scale in the Congo right now. That is the strain that affected those people in the same region in 1976.
Sanitation isn't like it is here in parts of Africa. Customs are different as well. This is why it spreads there.
That very reason should allay fears of this virulent, extremely dangerous, viral disease affecting America.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Sea Surface Temperature
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As you can see, the water is quite warm, hurricanes like that.
It looks cool but doesn't reveal the El Nino, the Mid-Pacific one does and it is abnormally warm (a literal El Nino situation).
El Nino inhibits Atlantic hurricane development. The most recent forecast discussion still talks about a layer of Saharan dust in the atmosphere which creates fair weather in the West Indies and the Caribbean Sea. The dust inhibits thunderstorm convection, can't form with dust in the way. This has been the case for over a month now. I do not know what is going on in west Africa to cause this but imagine the amount of dust from the Sahara Desert.
It is good no hurricanes are able to form but that means no hurricane images to post. There exists a tropical wave at about 24.1 North in the mid-Atlantic, could develop as it moves west over the next 2 weeks. We shall see.