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Often I feel like I’m repeating myself and reacting over and over again in the same pattern: Journalist discovers a natural phenomena that has been going on forever, or a University PR department and/or a scientist/activist hypes a newly published paper to

The biggest thing to watch today is Hurricane Polo, making landfall on the Baja peninsula.

There are nine tropical systems on the map this morning.

Three hurricanes and a tropical storm impacting/threatening land today, and the US Northeast is facing its first nor’easter of the season.

Busy tropical map this morning, with three major events developing.

While the Atlantic remains quiet (yeah, yeah, orange blob and Fay, they aren’t threats), the Pacific continues to spawn dangerous systems.

Another super-busy week, as both Europe and the Middle East are on geopolitical fire.

Two tropical systems are causing problems this morning, neither catastrophic but worth mentioning.

The blob fades, but the scary hype about the El Niño continues.

The oppressive heat wave in the Frogmore Metroplex and the surrounding environs has abated somewhat.

NHC started posting a yellow blob of doom on the tropical outlook yesterday, and while the short term outlook is 0%, this morning the seven day outlook is up to 30%.

Lowell continuted it’s eastward track shift and is passing just offshore of the western main islands of Hawaii this morning.

Lowell made its turn to the north yesterday.

Lowell is well into its turn to the north, and as often happens when a storm suddenly changes direction in response to powerful steering it dropped a category, but it’s still a Category 3 hurricane and should remain a very powerful storm.

Hurricane Lowell is an impressive Category 4 storm on IR this morning, almost a Cat 5: It has slowed and is seems to be starting the turn to the north.

TL;DR: Indications that Lowell track may be shifting to the west, which would be great.

Edouard may not have been much of a tropical storm from a wind/storm surge standpoint, but it is dumping epic amounts of rain in Texas.

Yesterday Invest area AL97 went from potential tropical cyclone to tropical depression to tropical storm.

TL;DR: Is a storm forming in the Gulf?

TL;DR: NHC has the blob in the Gulf at 20%, but does advise TX/LA to “monitor.”

After a few hours of no blobs on the NHC Tropical Weather Outlook, two low probability blobs returned to keep the clicks going for the doomscrolling community.