Ryan Maue

I'm really just a history buff moonlighting as a meteorologist. So much recent excellent research in climare + history ... like The Great El Niño of 1789-93. Fascinating ... and almost totally ignored journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

@euginewx Right on schedule!

@RyanWeather NHC just analyzed the first topical wave.

The 1685-1688 and 1789-1793 El Niño events were extremely severe and probably even stronger than the cataclysmic 1877 El Niño. Recent El Niño like 1997 and 2016 and 2023 don't hold a candle to those monsters from 237 and 341 years ago. nature.com/articles/30636

Almost 30 years ago, in October 1997, Al Gore held an "El Niño Summit" in Santa Monica and (without evidence) blamed it all on global warming. Kyoto Treaty followed shortly thereafter. From Time (1997) time.com/archive/673181…

I'm really just a history buff moonlighting as a meteorologist. So much recent excellent research in climare + history ... like The Great El Niño of 1789-93. Fascinating ... and almost totally ignored journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

From @RogerPielkeJr on El Niño of 1997 hype --> went into mainstream culture sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publicat…

👀 footnote 5 In recent history the severity of the El Niño of 1997 and 1998, as well as the La Niña event that followed on from it, has tempted both politicians and scientists to suggest that the 1997–98 event was the worst known in history.⁵ Similar hasty claims had been made for the El Niños of 1982–83 and 1991–95⁶ The historical as well as the prehistoric record tend to suggest otherwise.⁷ ⁵For example, see statement by United States vice-president Al Gore and NOAA sci-entists, The White House, 8 June 1998, claiming the 1997–98 El Niño to be the most sig-nificant climatic event of the century, and suggesting (without any evidence being produced),that this implied an acceleration of global warming. 😬

In 1994, researchers coined such 1788-1793 events as rare, only few per millennium "Mega-Niño" climate shocks Not Super El Niño but Mega El Niño. Brutal societal impacts from tropical drought e.g. failed monsoons. Why? Little Ice Age + 🌋 and weak ☀️

Now 40 years after Chernobyl ⚛️ Belgium 🇧🇪 reverses course on nuclear decomissioning ... will keep smashing atoms. dw.com/en/belgium-see…

@elonmusk It's critical that you have weather satellites in orbit before arrival of humans to provide decent forecasts of dust storms on Mars. That was the problem with Matt Damon being left behind -- bad dust storm forecast.

Thank you to @XHandles Me --> @RyanWeather After almost 20 years on Twitter/X back to the beginning

Just saw Mike Breen in Downtown Atlanta getting ready for Knicks & Hawks Game 6. Bang!

Low-60s in Atlanta in Noon hour as the Braves look to sweep the Tigers. Braves are hot 🔥

You Can’t Trust ‘Climate Economics’ Governments, banks and other institutions have based policies on models unconnected to reality. @WSJopinion from @RogerPielkeJr

Wednesday Weather After Dark Update Very welcome wet pattern from Texas into the Southeast w/stationary frontal boundary. --> Just in time for first week of May to dent drought! "Abnormally cool" eastern Lower 48 for next 2-weeks! Read/Sign up: weather.substack.com/p/april-29-202…

@tomysweat1 Not reaching 80°F during the first half of May would be very unusual in Atlanta.

After reaching 80s today in Atlanta, might not see 80°F again for 2-weeks? That's unheard of during first half of May. It can easily soar in the 90s. ⛅️Windows open in May in Atlanta --> amazing!

We’re getting deeper into spring so that means temps will…cool down? 📉 Persistent troughing in the Central and Eastern U.S. means below average temps into the first couple weeks of May. Remember that average temps this time of year are increasing…so it’s all relative.