Hurricane Harbor: 2023 & 2024 El Nino Years ... yet Beryl, Helene and Milton!!! ULL North of PR Headed Westbound Currently... Hot Dry Ridge Across the SE. Carolina Baking Near 90 Degrees in April!

Checkout that SW to NE flow from the Pacific.

Fueling storms in the USA

A wayward Upper Level Low North of PR

NHC knows it's there...

..watching it slide West.

The RIDGE over the SE

Having a Heat Wave in Raleigh...

....hot and dry!

This is what you'd expect in June.

But April not too soon this year!

Misery loves company they say....

...we are having a drought :(

Continuing on with yesterday's theme:

2023 was an El Nino Year.

It began in January ...kind of..

tho Arlene was June 1st!

Arlene was a meager Tropical Storm...

...formed from a "non tropical low"

You gotta love "Naked Swirls"

Tho meager you can see it's circulation.

2023 was not your Momma's normal year.

An unnamed storm formed in January...

...in the North Atlantic.

Then.......

we had Arlene go the wrong way!

Southbound........

To add insult to injury...

..it caused flooding in SFL

But they had a drought like this year...

...so Arlene was a drought buster!

Too much all at once...

From Wikipedia below...

"Arlene brought 2–6 in (51–152 mm) of rainfall to many locations in Central and South Florida,^[67] including a peak total of 9.82 in (249 mm) in Lakeland.^[68] However, this precipitation was mostly beneficial, alleviating drought conditions along with other rains that week.^[67] The remnants of Arlene generated severe thunderstorms across Southern Florida, with wind gusts up to 83 mph (134 km/h) at the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport.^[69] Nearby, winds caused the partial roof collapse of an apartment building in Pembroke Park, forcing two families to evacuate. Damage from this incident totaled $50,000.^[70] The remnants of Arlene also dropped rainfall on several islands in the Bahamas, peaking at 8.5 in (220 mm) of precipitation in Cockburn Town.^[68]"