Gee, if we only knew why storms were becoming stronger...

Too much sodomy and abortions in the world?

There's not nearly enough sodomy and abortions in the world to keep these storms from happening. Get busy, everybody!.

completely cut off from any kind of flow to move it along. It had transitioned between a subtropical storm/tropical storm/hurricane a few times before finally moving out towards Europe as an extra-tropical system.

I don't recall other hurricanes acting this way before. I know a rare one hits the British Isles, but not that far south.

and sortof sat and spun in place or drifted around in circles until finally heading out. In fact, there was one just last year - Hurricane Lee, that had all but dissipated, then regenerated, and drifted on and off into various statuses for over 2 weeks just like Leslie.

Hurricane Lee (2017) -



Back in 1995 I remember Hurricane Felix was barreling towards the east coast and then suddenly stopped short and started just spinning around in place before moving on near the coast and then off towards the NE over to the UK.

Hurricane Felix (1995) -



What is a bit different with Leslie though, is where it headed on its final journey, which is pretty far south from where they normally go based on the Gulf Stream flow.



You can see how the natural ocean currents push the newly born storms off the coast of Africa and over to the western hemisphere -



Whenever the storms hit here around North America, they (or some remnant of them) eventually jump the jetstream or a front or a trough, and head on out over the Atlantic. And once they reach the Gulf Stream, they head over to the UK as extratropical/non-tropical systems, where they become the famous raging storms that batter the coasts of Scotland.

Problem though is because of climate change and melting of glaciers up in the far northern reaches, the changes to ocean temperatures around the globe seem to possibly be impacting these known currents, which means that storms that normally ride along them may be more unpredictable.

for your posting. Very informative.
Climate change vs tRump, hopefully we can take care of both of these catastrophes.

I saw a story on Accuweather from a few years ago that talked about an anomalous "cold pools" (or "cold blobs" ) in the Atlantic, which was probably caused by glacier melt from Greenland -



As of the last data available from NOAA, that cold blob was still very much there as of August of this year -



Of course hurricanes thrive in the bath water parts of the ocean (as long as they don't get sheared away by the westerlies).

And yeah, we need to do something fast because he is dismantling the policies designed to minimize greenhouse gasses, quick, fast, and in a hurry.