Delta Dawning

Hurricane Delta, the fourth tropical cyclone named for a Greek letter and the twenty-fifth named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, has approached major-hurricane status and is lashing the Yucatan Peninsula before it's expected to close in on the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Delta is going to hit the delta.

The storm is likely going to do a number on New Orleans and affect a good deal of Mississippi before becoming a depression and moving northeast, its remnants possibly affecting New Jersey or Pennsylvania by Columbus Day.  Right now, as I type, there are no other disturbances in the Atlantic basin that could form a tropical system, so the mid-October hurricane that the almanacs predicted for the Northeast is not going to happen.  That doesn't mean that there won't be tropical activity later.

This all happens as Sir David Attenborough is promoting a new film saying how the earth is living on borrowed time due to climate change.  Maybe we should listen to him.