Thread by @WeatherProf

One job of a hurricane is to dissipate & redistribute heat. As storms move they churn up the ocean, use/ transport energy, drop heavy-cool rain & upwell cool water from down below. Summer steering took Major Hurricane’s Franklin and Lee over the same region cooling record… 1/

…cooling record hot sea sfc temps. Amazingly, even this large region of cooler water, and active hurricane season, has not been able to change the margin of the record hot anomalies. We are still at 4 standard deviations above normal. Nature’s typical remedies are struggling…2/

@BMcNoldy has been keeping track of the standard deviations. ~4 sigma right now which is outside of the extreme tail of historical possibilities.

https://twitter.com/bmcnoldy/status/1703791342047187440