Climate Change : Irma: A Meditation on Hurricanes and the Bahamas ~ Global Voices

I grew up in Miami, Florida.  I'm so old that I can remember when hurricanes only had female names.  I no longer in Florida but I have not fully escaped the hurricanes.  I live in Texas now and hurricanes also like to swing by here and say Hello! People who live in locations where they experience hurricanes and have lived to tell can always share a story.  The longer they live in a place and survive, the more stories they have to tell.  Nicolette Bethel has a story.
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And then came Irma: Not behaving at all like a genteel gracious lady at all.   She even brought friends to her soiree.  September 2017, Hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and Florida, and brought some tornadoes with her.   She definitely gave us something to think about it. These are the thoughts of Nicolette Bethel.

"Every thirty years or so, however, some regular shift in global weather patterns appeared to encourage the formation of hurricanes further north and increase the likelihood that they would affect The Bahamas and US eastern seaboard. These hurricanes would sweep across the Atlantic and not be disrupted by land or mountains until they were well inland in the USA." 

(My comment/observation.)  Extracted this excerpt because it seems to present a plausible explanation for 2017 being the year of the hurricanes.  In other words, maybe it's not the effects of climate change.  Maybe ... it's just normal weather patterns.  The global warming debate continues.

Author of the post republished by GlobalVoices.org is Nicolette Bethel, Bahamian teacher, writer, and anthropologist.

Visit her blog for more interesting posts. 

~ Original Article Source: Global Voices

Hurricane, Bahamas. Winslow Homer (1898). 

Image donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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