Flooding Rains and Hurricanes

We are now officially in hurricane season. It started June 1 and will continue until November 30. In my post on sea surface temperatures, I discussed how abnormally warm the Atlantic Ocean is. Sea surface temperatures are also exceptionally warm throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Today there is a huge swath of the Gulf just west of southern Florida where the water is so hot it is literally evaporating millions of gallons of water per hour.

So it’s no coincidence that southwestern Florida is getting heavy rain. After all, what goes up must come down. Some parts of the state are expected to receive 20 inches of rain throughout the week. June 11 through June 14.

June, July, and August are typically rainy months for Florida, but what is happening now is highly unusual. The heavy rains in Florida follow weeks of heavy rain in Texas where every river in east Texas was at or near flood stage and more than a dozen people were killed by the storms. Some of the storms were so severe that storm-driven straight-line winds exceeded 100 miles per hour, causing millions of people to lose power.

It’s as if the oceans are going crazy, but it is said that the oceans are holding 90 percent of the accumulated heat from global warming. The Earth is a water planet. Two-thirds of the surface are covered by water.

The laws of physics state that as water is heated the evaporation of that water intensifies. Because of its geography, the U.S. is especially vulnerable to hurricanes.

I can easily envision a scenario where continuous heavy rains devastate any one of the Gulf states causing massive flooding, and then immediately following these storms the whole region gets hit with a major hurricane and subsequent days of more heavy rain. I can see a situation where entire cities are under water, rivers beyond flood stage, the water having nowhere to go.

Is the government prepared for such a disaster? No, it isn’t. The United States government is not prepared for what is probably going to happen this summer and fall.

I watched President Biden on television today—the man can no longer put a coherent sentence together. He’s too old to be running the country. He belongs in a nursing home, not the White House. Biden is simply not capable of having to deal with a major crisis, and based on the high ocean heat content currently in place, we can expect a series of major disasters this summer.

I can’t predict exactly what might happen, but all Gulf state residents need to be alert and monitor the weather day by day. And if you are ordered to evacuate, don’t hesitate. Go.