% My prayers go out to our friendly U.S. neighbors to the south as I hope the damage from this storm is minimal. But it only points to what is in store for everyone world-wide (this weather is whack).
For those where one of their reasons for driving Electric was to reduce what they contribute to Global Climatic Changes, I (and Mother Earth) thank you. % http://motherboard.vice.com/read/patricia-how-climate-change-is-fueling-the-strongest-storm-ever-recorded Behind Patricia: How Climate Change Is Fueling the Strongest Storm Ever Recorded Brian Merchant October 23, 2015 [images http://motherboard-images.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-id/1445631530279217.gif (map of storm's path into MX) ] ... Friday morning, Hurricane Patricia became the strongest storm ever [ http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-patricia-mexico-coast ] recorded. It did so at a rate so rapid that it took scientists by surprise: Its winds grew from 60 MPH to a sustained 200 MPH in just over a day’s time. As it nears the southwestern coast of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center is calling Patricia “potentially catastrophic.” And it almost certainly wouldn’t be so powerful if human activity hadn’t warmed the waters to near-record temperatures before it developed. “Patricia was fueled by ocean waters that were a near-record-warm 87 F, which would not have been so warm without climate change,” Jeff Masters, the director of meteorology at the Weather Underground, wrote me in an email. “It is fair to say climate change increased the odds of getting such a strong storm.” ... [© 2015 Vice Media] ... https://google.com/search?q=Hurricane+Patricia Hurricane Patricia ... https://google.com/search?q=weather+is+whack (everything you knew has changed, weather is whack) ... https://wamu.org/news/15/10/23/with_200_mph_winds_hurricane_patricia_closes_in_on_mexico With 200-MPH Winds, Hurricane Patricia Closes In On Mexico Bill Chappell October 23, 2015 Most Powerful Hurricane In Our Hemisphere For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/OT-High-ocean-temps-fueled-Hurricane-Patricia-hitting-MX-200mph-tp4678320.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
