Atmospheric river storms are getting stronger, and deadlier. The race to understand them is on (www.theguardian.com)

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British scientists disagree and say that the outcome had been "forced" and unrealistic

Prof Jonathan Bamber, director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre at Bristol University, said: “They did this by imposing a huge freshwater forcing to the North Atlantic that is entirely unrealistic for even the most extreme warming scenario over the next century.

https://lemmy.world/post/11827066

I can't say whether AMOC will collapse this year, but we can expect La Nina to come in August. We'll see what happens in the next hurricane season

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