The lack of hurricanes also means that heat is not being removed from the Gulf of Mexico. Therefore, future hurricanes are likely to be more powerful and more frequent.
In 1877, 50 million people starved to death from El Niño. The charts are looking far worse in 2026 (thankfully our supply chains and infrastructure are much better today)
We can't stop the storms but we can work to avert the impacts and save lives.
One thing we need help with is how to provide detailed recommendations per city/address to people based on historical El Niños. What are local emergency notification services, where can you get free sandbags, should you expect floods, droughts, tornadoes? What backup services are there if 911 goes down? (If you have ideas, here's our github: https://github.com/titojankowski/elninoready)
Our first step is bringing together people at New York Climate Week so that's what's up on the site right now.
AMA
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eagerpace
I thought the warming waters were supposed to increase the number of hurricanes?
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treetalker
The end of the post touches on it, but couldn’t this be foreshadowing the really bad El Niño that they’ve been talking about?
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mindslight
The Sharpie works!!
mudil
Reminds me of Al Gore's movie poster.
wewewedxfgdf
Such good news.
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unnamed76ri
Bill Nye told us that deadly hurricanes would increase if Kamala Harris wasn’t elected president. If I can’t trust Bill Nye, who can I trust?
The lack of hurricanes also means that heat is not being removed from the Gulf of Mexico. Therefore, future hurricanes are likely to be more powerful and more frequent.
https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2026-08-31/rising-humid-hea...
This El Niño is off the charts for any ever recorded in human history.
Stripe's climate scientist Zeke Hausfather came to AirMiners to tell us about what's next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Xu_H3Wo8o
In 1877, 50 million people starved to death from El Niño. The charts are looking far worse in 2026 (thankfully our supply chains and infrastructure are much better today)
We can't stop the storms but we can work to avert the impacts and save lives.
We're building tools at: https://elninoready.earth
One thing we need help with is how to provide detailed recommendations per city/address to people based on historical El Niños. What are local emergency notification services, where can you get free sandbags, should you expect floods, droughts, tornadoes? What backup services are there if 911 goes down? (If you have ideas, here's our github: https://github.com/titojankowski/elninoready)
Our first step is bringing together people at New York Climate Week so that's what's up on the site right now.
AMA
I thought the warming waters were supposed to increase the number of hurricanes?
The end of the post touches on it, but couldn’t this be foreshadowing the really bad El Niño that they’ve been talking about?
The Sharpie works!!
Reminds me of Al Gore's movie poster.
Such good news.
Bill Nye told us that deadly hurricanes would increase if Kamala Harris wasn’t elected president. If I can’t trust Bill Nye, who can I trust?