🇨🇳In China, more products are transitioning to plastics made from bamboo.
It fully biodegrades in about 5 months and doesn't create forever-microplastics.
SOMETHING UNPRECEDENTED IS TAKING SHAPE IN THE PACIFIC
Something big is building in the Pacific.
The developing El Niño could become the strongest in living memory — and the signal showing up in the latest projections is unlike anything experts at the UK Met Office say they’ve seen before.
We’ve already been watching an enormous reservoir of unusually warm water building beneath the tropical Pacific.
If this develops anywhere near current projections, here’s what it could bring:
• Heavier rainfall and flooding in some regions
• Hotter, drier conditions and worsening drought in others
• Major shifts in storm tracks
• Changes to winter weather across North America
• Another push upward in global temperatures
• Effects that could continue well into 2027
We were watching the heat building beneath the Pacific.
Now we’re starting to see what that could turn into.
#MrMBB333 #ElNino #PacificOcean
EL NINO UPDATE: The "Super El Niño" hyperbole is off the charts this week. Many are posting those really bad Chat GPT graphics promising days of doom, gloom, death, and destruction this winter. Many on TikTok continue to tell you that "mankind will be wiped out" by next summer.
This is an update posted on Saturday August 22 in an effort to provide a sane voice crying out in the wilderness.
The graphic posted here is a current look at the warm equatorial waters, associated with a very strong El Niño ENSO phase underway.
NOAA's current probabilistic outlook gives 100% odds of El Niño continuing through January-March 2027, with a 97% chance still in place for February-April and 82% for March-May. The event is forecast to peak during late fall and early winter, then gradually weaken during spring 2027.
For Alabama, El Niño is generally a wet/cool signal for the cool season, particularly when the event is moderate or strong like the current situation. The most likely implications:
*Above-average precipitation: El Niño winters tend to favor a more active southern storm track, increasing the odds of frequent rain across Alabama.
*Temperatures leaning cooler: The odds favor a cooler-than-normal winter compared with La Niña winters, although that does not mean persistent cold.
*More storm systems: A stronger subtropical jet can send more disturbances across the Gulf Coast and Southeast. Alabama's tornado season (November through May) should be considerably more active than the last one, which was very benign.
*Better opportunities for winter weather: El Niño increases the opportunity for snow, sleet and freezing rain events in Alabama, but it absolutely does not mean Alabama is going to have a snowy winter. The details of individual storm tracks and temperatures will determine that.
*Gulf Coast storms/rainfall: A more active southern jet can mean several significant Gulf Coast low-pressure systems.
This is the important point: I would not use El Niño alone to make a confident tornado, severe-weather, snow, or ice forecast for Alabama. A strong El Niño can load the dice toward a wetter southern U.S. winter and a more active subtropical jet, but it does not tell us exactly when cold air and Gulf moisture will overlap.
Likewise, a very strong El Niño does not guarantee an exceptionally wet Alabama winter. NOAA explicitly cautions that even the strongest ENSO events do not produce their typical impacts everywhere.
Time will tell how this plays out. But mankind will be here next summer, and you don't need to be consumed with anxiety.
1 year ago today, Category 5 Hurricane Erin explosively intensified to reach winds of 160 MPH and a pressure of 913 MBAR north of Puerto Rico.
At peak intensity, she produced one of the clearest, driest, and most cylindrical pinhole eyes you will ever see in your lifetime.
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Update: Mount Kilauea erupted on
8/15/26 episode 53 produced large lava fountains and some spectacular footage as hurricane Lala hits the big island in Hawaii with record, rainfall and catastrophic flooding.🌋🔥
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