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El Niño sends the jet stream southward. Once the jet stream gets far enough south it tears apart any developing storms in the Gulf and Caribbean Sea before they
by Veliladon 19d ago
El Niño sends the jet stream southward. Once the jet stream gets far enough south it tears apart any developing storms in the Gulf and Caribbean Sea before they have a chance to become a problem.
- bearjaws 19d agoAlso having large waves of Saharan dust which is too dry and inhibits hurricane development.
- abakker 19d agoWhere does this dust end up? Into the oceans? Because iron-rich dust entering the oceans helps create nutrition for algae which can absorb CO2
- joecool1029 19d agoBelieve it or not at least 40 million tons of it ends up in the Amazon basin each year where it does have an effect on the plants there: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/1/1/014005 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/1/1/014... It goes elsewhere too, as expected.
- consp 19d agoN/Nw Europe also has sand rains. Not seen it this year yet though.
- consumer451 19d agoIn South Florida you can sometimes get Sahara dust on your car after a rain.
- HWR_14 19d agoIt also prevents those storms from dissipating the energy. So once the jet stream moves north again, bigger than otherwise storms will happen.