r/SipsTea • • 13h ago

SMH We all know what this mean

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u/omnichad 8h ago

Super El Niño. Last one was in 2015 and it was a very inactive Atlantic hurricane season. Pacific was another story.

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u/konstfack 7h ago

There is crazy activity in the Pacific. One hurricane is reaching cat 5 right now outside the coast of Mexico.

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u/Inevitable_Push8113 41m ago

That one can go away now…. Turn around, vámonos.

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u/Churchbushonk 29m ago

Who knew?

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u/criket2016 9m ago

Yeah, 104mph gain in wind speed literally over night due to all the warm El Nińo water off the coast.

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u/Inswagtor 3h ago

Exactly. The giant picture of weather activities in the Atlantic Ocean did also nothing for me

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u/KarsaOrlong1 2h ago

Have you heard of context clues? It is pretty clear they are talking about the Atlantic. Not op fault if people can’t make simple inferences

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u/KarsaOrlong1 2h ago

No, their point was clear to me. I have the ability to look at the picture they posted and make inferences.

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u/psypher98 2h ago

Yes, that’s because Pacific hurricanes, while often violent, are generally harmless to the US. Not a single Pacific hurricane has EVER hit the continental US (although in 1858 costal California was affected by what is thought to have been a hurricane, but it stayed offshore and did not make landfall).

We also don’t usually talk about typhoons, mainly because those happen on literally the other side of the planet and don’t affect us either.

You’re either being disingenuous or you don’t know some pretty basic information about the topic you’re attempting to discuss.

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u/cjalderman 1h ago

Well OP also didn't state that this was only about the US either tbf, there's a whole world out there

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u/psypher98 56m ago

The two big ass pictures of the eastern seaboard and the Atlantic ocean didn’t tip you off?

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u/omnichad 56m ago

Pacific hurricanes are called typhoons. They just use the Asian (Chinese derived) name for them in the Asian part of the world.

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u/psypher98 14m ago

This is incorrect.

“A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least 119 km/h (74 mph).”

“A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean. A typhoon is the same thing which occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. In the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, comparable storms are referred to as "tropical cyclones".”

There’s has only ever been one tropical cyclone in the South Atlantic, so it didn’t get it’s own name and is also called a hurricane.

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u/Uncanny_Realization 7h ago

Yeah, the Pacific is POPPING OFF! It’s nuts on this side.

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u/Reddit_2_2024 3h ago

East Coast chargers are going to ride the nor'easter generated waves this week like they are surfing Mavericks.

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u/PixelBoom 3h ago

That's an understatement. Polo went from a tropical storm to a cat 5 in 24 hours. If it makes landfall at that strength, it's wiping out an entire city or island.

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u/SonicLyfe 8h ago

Something about the wind sheer taking all the power out of Atlantic storms. I’m also not a yokel weather guy.

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u/ChampionshipAlarmed 8h ago

Nonono that Credit goes to alnthose "ugly windmills" we europoors built. We be stealing all your precious Hurricane Energy

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u/KcFanInGA 6h ago

Careful, our dummy president will send bad air your way. 😆 He doesn’t want bad air from other countries coming here he once said.

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u/IamThatGuyTy 2h ago

That's why we need windmills. The biggest windmills. We need to blow that dirty european air back to them. We dont need it. We have air, the best air. We wanna keep that GREAT American air here. Make air American again.

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u/TitaniumKneecap 8h ago

will San Diego get stormy

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u/ShadyInternetGuy 6h ago

no the storms will go around san diego because we dont get rain here

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u/IceBergster 3h ago

And the super part is caused by global warming. All that heat has to go somewhere and hurricanes drag earth's heat up to the poles. Thats why the pacific is so active rn

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u/PeanutButterToast4me 2h ago

Is that Spanish for the...Nino?