Oh the Games We Play... Counting Down the Days.... April Turns to May and Then..........Hurricane Season. El Nino? No Nino? IYKYK....

 

This is going to be a short blog post.

I was on Instagram.....

...after a very long day.

My iPhone actually died!

I never let that happen.... 

Note it says "Late 2026"

Details matter....

Cantore reposting.

Good graphic.

Catches the eye.

Catches the imagination.

Could we have a Super El Nino?

Or.........

...just a "meh" barely there El Nino?

I don't know. I've seen data supporting both and I could guess the truth will lie somewhere in the middle. I have an odd relationship with El Nino, especially super ones. Take 1997 for example! It was the best of times and the worst of times. LOL the better sticks with me as I laugh thinking on it. If you ever wondered how tropical meteorology people handle a "Mother of All El Ninos" delivering a very quiet hurricane season? My answer will be 1997, but I'm not telling so let's let secrets lie down deep in the dark blue Neptunian Sea of Secrets. Oh what a time it was ....  

You can't blame chasers, meteorologists and weather people deprived of their favorite oxygen or perhaps we can call it their favorite addiction. We don't need a hurricane to make landfall, we just need one to track, watch, stare at satellite imagery and follow the models. True chasers need to chase. Won't lie but somehow, somewhere there are always opportunities. We obsess a lot. Sometimes we write funny stories and other times people go moody remembering the years we do not talk about ever tho the image is below.

And, in truth some El Ninos are illogically busier than anyone ever expected and break all the rules. Can't say, it's too soon. But when Jim puts up a JAWS like graphic the discussion online has hit my tipping point and now here I am blogging about it. It was a year most people pray for, but not chasers or trackers or well you know who we are if you are reading this....

Mike is ready to chase!

He has been playing with artistic posts on AI all off-season and I suppose there will be some funny AI posts IF this season is quiet as most El Ninos are ... well until they are not. 1992 brought us Andrew at the end of August, after a very hot, dry summer from hell in Miami.  The Mango trees were so confused they actually bloomed three times. Locals who know old Cuban Wives Tales in Little Havana told everyone "they knew we'd have a bad hurricane" because of the triple Mango Bloom. Hey, it's Miami... it's how we roll there.

This is also the 100th anniversary of the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane. 1926 was NOT an El Nino it was one of the busiest hurricane seasons few can imagine........ hitting Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida every which way that was possible and sometimes more than once!

And if you are still reading this I will be very honest. I am tired of trying to think of what to write on and no I am not watching "SEVERE WEATHER" episodes highly touted as if it was a movie with it's own trailer about to released...........and it rains for 3 minutes in Raleigh and it stops suddenly as if someone turned the hose uff and the sun comes out again. We have a hard core drought, yet there are few AI designed MEMES on the drought that deprived us of 9 inches of snow in Raleigh due to the infamous "snow hole from hell" and zaps the rain away every time rain is forecast to fall. Pollen got MEMES but the drought just goes on and on and well you know what they say about drought busters? Okay, maybe you don't want to know.

I don't want to write about Severe Weather that's really not so severe.

I don't want to talk about hurricanes "Down Under"

I don't want to scroll through a parade of El Nino is COMING posts on X.
Yes I love the Northern Lights, but unless they are lighting up my nighttime sky I'm  not interested.

I don't want to talk about anything but hurricanes. 

It's April. Every day we get deeper into April. And, then it's May!

April 9th, 2026 the CSU Hurricane Forecast will come out. That's the last day of Passover by me, so as soon as I come out of my Sabbath like shadow I am in .... I'll be reading that first before anything else. Lots of reports are out, some good, some I'm not sure about and I traditionally measure them against the CSU report and a few from some of my most trusted friends. 

I had a small tooth problem last Wednesday and every Dentist I knew was closed for Passover or took the week off for Easter. An annoying molar. I'm not kidding. Maybe it was about Easter. I like to believe people are at Church praying but maybe it was March Madness.  If you know North Carolina you know. So I was put on strong antibiotics which bothered my stomach even though I took everyone I was supposed to ...  

I like Passover. Sometimes though Passover does not like me :( 

But I went to the Dentist today and I'm good! Medication was changed!! I feel great! Awesome. Normal.

And, I am blogging!!

You can read all the wild headlines and watch the flowing  feed of discussion on El Nino, but we won't know til we know for sure. That's the truth. El Ninos can be tricky, sneaky and unpredictable.

Been there... just ride it out and we will see for sure soon enough!

I'm thirsty for action. Hungry for the GFS to put out silly forecasts that we all make fun of...

I am really thinking on being in Miami for the May Monsoons, because I want to sit on my daughter's balcony high up in the sky in Midtown that faces West while playing with her Golden Doodle as I watch tall thunderheads climb high into the Miami sky! I want to go to the Keys with my brother and chase a line of thunderstorms with possible waterspouts down somewhere past Key Largo. 

So know I'm officially close to obsessing on the start of the 2026 Hurricane Season. 

Time will tell.

I don't want fake meat or fake fish. Winter is in the rear view mirror. Spring has sprung! Spring Training even started! People be talking on the NFL draft! 

Time to get real and think on what comes next. The real season. The mean season. 

Never stop researching. Never stop tracking. Never stop chasing.

Sweet Tropical Dreams,

BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on X and where ever you can find me.