It's not a particularly common thing to have a streak of winds like that going across the tropics, but it has been seen before. It happened in April too. This just looked like wind flow between two large high-pressure areas in the tropics, with the northern one tapping into a branch of the main subtropical jet (the other branch went toward California) and once the blocking pattern stopped with high pressure weakening the flow went back to a more normal pattern.
Climate change may definitely be messing with jet stream patterns (it probably is) but this isn't the ultimate proof that all the rules should get thrown out the window or anything. It seems like the blog that brought up "gravity waves" and the like went for click-bait and it succeeded, which sadly gives the upper hand to the deniers who will point to that post as "proof" that anyone that believes in global warming is lying. I've seen a few major deniers bringing that up already.
OT, so is the jet stream crossing the equator not that big a deal?
It's not a particularly common thing to have a streak of winds like that going across the tropics, but it has been seen before. It happened in April too. This just looked like wind flow between two large high-pressure areas in the tropics, with the northern one tapping into a branch of the main subtropical jet (the other branch went toward California) and once the blocking pattern stopped with high pressure weakening the flow went back to a more normal pattern.
Climate change may definitely be messing with jet stream patterns (it probably is) but this isn't the ultimate proof that all the rules should get thrown out the window or anything. It seems like the blog that brought up "gravity waves" and the like went for click-bait and it succeeded, which sadly gives the upper hand to the deniers who will point to that post as "proof" that anyone that believes in global warming is lying. I've seen a few major deniers bringing that up already.
Well, they got me. I may have remembered the April event and thought it's a trend.
Can't blame you for worrying, some of these sites can be very convincing at first look.
For a couple years I was checking RS if I was gonna link but have slacked off I guess.
I think we all know the real problem here:
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Florida Man+chemtrails=Gravis. It's math, people!
This is good news for unskewedpolls.com!
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Gravis literally changed its numbers after people complained, which now makes them even more suspect.