Global sea surface temperatures. Look at this year (a red line). Doesn't bode well for hurricane season.

[applegrove]

My god. What have we done.

— Luke (@lukehklipp.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T20:19:12.936Z

[moonshinegnomie]

1. El Nio should counteract that

It tends to make the season less severe due to increased wind shear which tends to rip storms apart
https://www.weather.gov/jan/el_nino_and_la_nina#How_do_El_Nino_and_La_Nina_affect_the_Atlantic_hurricane_season_

[surfered]

4. Unlike Hunter S Thompson, it's getting too weird for me.

Last year was a La Niña year. Supposed to be more active and predicted to be so, yet not one tropical storm in the Gulf.

Andrew struck Florida in an El Niño year.

I don’t think any of us can predict what’s going to happen, except to say it’s going to be bad.

[applegrove]

5. Excellent. Thanks.

[surfered]

2. Plus there is this...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

We’re toast. A “hoax” will kill us all.

Don’t look up!

[applegrove]

3. Oh man. People in NoLa can't catch a break.

[misanthrope]

7. To be frank, NOLA's problems are also from subsidence

New Orleans has been sinking. Partially it is because they constrained the flooding that replenished the land since NOLA is built upon a massive pile of silt that extends into the Gulf of Mexico. The other part is the weight of the city atop that silt presses down it while removal of the gas and petroleum under that section of the world also adds to the subsidence.

It has been known for decades now that at some point NOLA was going to have to relocate to the continental shelf. Its current location is doomed.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. That looks catastrophic. I am not a climate scientist, and I am aware of

how easy it can be to manipulate data in graphs but damn. That really does look like a horrible shift is in process.