Pollination is Important

 

The small brown plumlets did not get pollinated and will not develop further.

Chuck

WTF SST?

 Global sea surface temperatures have been high recently. Almost no news about them.

According to the chart at 

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

SST are a solid 0.2 C above the old daily record. Sounds small? That is 0.2 C over all ocean surface from 60 S to 60 N.  Last year the temperature tracked about 0.1 C above the two sigma high line. That data set goes back to 1981. Since 2023-apr-1 the trace has been about 5 sigma high.

The world's oceans have been about five standard deviations above the 40 year average for six weeks. Something momentous is going on.

The same site offers another strong clue. Switch to the North Atlantic and look at the color SST map. The bands are nearly horizontal. That is not how they are supposed to look. The gulf stream is nearly invisible. It looks like the AMOC has stopped.

Chuck

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