Hurricane Barbara

Hurricane Carol

Hurricane Florence

What do all 3 of things Canes have in common?

They were part of an active El Nino Year.

1953

NOT a Super El Nino.

But still .... El Nino

Fairly busy year.

Lots of landfalls.

Part of the Carib was shut down...

..few long trackers!

Sometimes El Nino years, that are not Super El Ninos, are busy with lots of weak storms drawing scribble scrabble lines with tracks that seem to trace the previous storm.  Again, Mother Nature always finds a way and when it works it keeps doing it over and over again! Take 2023 for example. 

2023 El Nino 

Note the similarities!

Lots of blue scribble scrabble tracks.

Deep SW Carib is kind of quiet...

Some landfalls.

Monotonous year to track.... 

...or chase. 

They all just kept turning at the same spot.

Tracing each other.

Not much creativity involved. 

A few ocean cruisers provided ACE.

And then there was Idaliah!

And, as these storms formed and got their names and began to make their move all the talk on social media began to explain why this was happening in an El Nino year. Okay, there were extenuating circumstances. Not your Momma's typical El Nino!

And that really is my message, aside from El Nino doesn't stop hurricanes from forming though it does redirect them! 

Every El Nino is different.

You can count on them like chickens, but the chickens often have surprises they can flee the coop and take off for parts unknown...

Time will tell.

1953 and 2023 both had El Nino and had similar busy seasons, though the SW Carib was fairly quiet!

Sweet Tropical Dreams,

BobbiStorm

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