The Atlantic Is Cooling at a Mysteriously Fast Rate After Record Warmth

Gizmodo ^ | 20 August 2024 | Adam Kovac

[Alas Babylon!]

For over a year, surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean hit new highs, but that trend has reversed at record speed over the past few months, and nobody knows why.

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NOAA data shows Atlantic sea surface temperatures have cooled at a surprising rate since May. Since June began, temperatures have been a degree or two Fahrenheit colder than normal for this time of year. That means El Niño will likely be replaced by its counterpart, La Niña, a weather system that allows cold water to rise to the surface of the Atlantic, some time between September and November. Both El Niño and La Niña are complex systems driven by trade winds, solar heating, and rainfall in the tropic regions, and can be difficult to predict. Still, the sudden shift in Atlantic temperatures has been puzzling, and nobody seems to know why it’s happened so quickly.

“We’ve gone through the list of possible mechanisms, and nothing checks the box so far,” Frans Philip Tuchen, a postdoctoral student at the University of Miami, told New Scientist.

[voicereason]

Shift happens!

[Elsie]

How long has the mid-ATLANTIC ridge been spreading?

There WAS no 'atlantic ocean' before it started to part!

[Elsie]

GMTA

[Elsie]

SWAG!

[Elsie]

What caused all the CO² to disappear at the 450,000,000 BC point?

And what caused it to rebound to exactly where it was before??

[Elsie]

All of us need to speak with G-d. Why?

I think it's just the opposite: we need to LISTEN to Him.

And then - OBEY Him!

[up hermit]

Anyone familiar with the Chaos theory can determine that it is in fact the windmills that are disrupting air currents leading to this strange phenomenon.

[BitWielder1]

1-2 degrees? How is that a mystery? It's Natural Variation.
They made it sound so serious.
If they have to blame human activity, try blaming the chem trails.

[grobdriver]

Does this mean we’re all going to die?

That is pretty much assured.

[libh8er]

“Weather forecasters can’t accurately forecast the weather 6 months out”

Six months out ??? They can’t predict Friday’s temperature on a Monday without being off by several degrees.

[Steely Tom]

"I'll make it stop, for the sum of... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!"

[kvanbrunt2]

We’re all gonna die.......

[DoughtyOne]

This global warming hoax is so tedious.

[metmom]

No idea.

I just like the charts because they blow the CO2 global warming thing out of the water.

[VastRWCon]

FL Here usually by this date 08.26 my pool is as we say a hot tub but this year cool and refreshing. Hottest summer ever??? 😆 🤣 😂

[Mark17]

Weather forecasters can’t accurately forecast the weather 6 DAYS out let alone decades.

That’s closer to what I was thinking.

[ridesthemiles]

WE have had over 2 months of 100++ degrees days.

IT snowed at Donner last Sat night—3”.

About 80 miles west of me.

[FlingWingFlyer]

More proof the environmental “EXPERTS” haven’t go a clue about what they are talking about. They’re just looking for government grants.

[montag813]

New ice age coming fast

[napscoordinator]

Last year the hurricane season was slow until September and then one after another until November. I’d rather we never have a hurricane ever again.