El Niño in the Eastern Pacific - Indian Ocean dipole Also Around

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And don't forget the “blobs” in both the northern Pacific and Atlantic.

Cyclone Chapala did a job a few days ago, and now Cyclone Megh is on its way.

More than a year's rain in a matter of hours. And the next cyclone will provide more. So much for desert living. And, I've seen nothing in the news about how it's affecting Saudi Arabia's military venture in the area.

And here's a picture of flooding from the same storm in Amman, Jordan:

with story @ Amman municipality blames hill for massive flooding

 

[Old Rocks]

Wilder and wider swings, with an overall warming. Prediction still stands, and is looking more valid every day. If you want to see news of the world, go to the BBC. The US news thinks the world ends at the border, unless it involves military action.

 

[longknife]

Wilder and wider swings, with an overall warming. Prediction still stands, and is looking more valid every day. If you want to see news of the world, go to the BBC. The US news thinks the world ends at the border, unless it involves military action.

BBC is but one of the many international news sites I visit on a daily basis.

 

[Old Rocks]

Expansion of the Hadley cell under global warming
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• First published: 24 March 2007Full publication history
• DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028443View/save citation
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Abstract

[1] A consistent weakening and poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation is diagnosed in the climate change simulations of the IPCC AR4 project. Associated with this widening is a poleward expansion of the subtropical dry zone. Simple scaling analysis supports the notion that the poleward extent of the Hadley cell is set by the location where the thermally driven jet first becomes baroclinically unstable. The expansion of the Hadley cell is caused by an increase in the subtropical static stability, which pushes poleward the baroclinic instability zone and hence the outer boundary of the Hadley cell.

Midterms next week, so no time to read this and several other very interesting articles on this subject. Most are not paywalled, so you can read the whole article. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that we are seeing things like cyclones where they were never known before.