May Heat Wave

The month of May was unusually warm for me, and I had to google to check if May temperatures were warmer this year. Yep, several records fell in May during its unusually early heat wave. Some Northeast temperature records from the 1800’s were broken.

Those who deny climate change…are they starting to come around? I think some are but there are plenty still denying. But that crew seems to be quieter now, especially those in politics. I think more and more people are recognizing that the weather has been acting more and more extreme and that something is wrong. They are just going to quietly change their mind.

I don’t care how they get there as long as they start to realize that the climate is changing in ways that are not good. We can’t get there fast enough.

So, with the May records being breached, is this heat wave a sign of an unusually severe hurricane season?

The 2022 hurricane season starts tomorrow and is projected to be higher than average. Another year of worrying about the weather sitting in the Gulf or Atlantic.

“Agatha is the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in May in the eastern Pacific”

“Pacific season’s first hurricane makes landfall in Mexico”, LA Times, Jose Maria Alvarez, May 30, 2022

As a matter of fact, yesterday I had to worry about a hurricane developing in the Pacific and slated to cross over Mexico. For the first time ever, a hurricane level 2 has crossed the shores of Mexico from the Pacific and will enter the Gulf. Where will it go and how severe will it be if it heads for US shores? That’s my next worry.

It’s so early in the season and we already have an unusual development.

This is gonna be a looonnng summer. Things to worry about: the Russian-Ukrainian war, the hurricane season and the coronavirus – yeah, it’s still around and is projected by the health officials to be bad again towards the end of the year. Although I have to say, after the January/February surge, people are just tired of that particular crisis and are trying to move on to normality. We’ll see at the end of the year.

But first, I have to get through the summer of hurricanes.