Opposite the “worse than ever” missive: Global tropical shutdown now impacts the Atlantic
By
Joe Bastardi
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September 11th, 2025
In a meeting with Dr. Willie Soon, Dr. Ronan Connolly, and Dr. Michael Connolly their study on the weakening of the Hadley cell provided a compelling explanation for the 20-year downturn in the Western Pacific (WPAC), which serves as the real canary in the coal mine for tropical climate changes.
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That canary is now coming home to roost in the Atlantic. While the Atlantic has been in a frenzy over the past several years as it tries to take up the slack, the distorted warming has likely impacted vertical velocity patterns over the tropics (which is what a weakening Hadley cell would imply). We now see storms developing further north, being more compact, and featuring shorter tracks. Storms like Erin are the exception, and the main development region is almost a misnomer now in both the Atlantic and the Western Pacific.
This is yet another case where what climate alarmists have been pushing is going the other way. The flurry of impacting storms on the U.S. coast gave them cover to ignore the Pacific. Yet most of these storms had much shorter tracks, exploded in intensity within two days of landfall during phase 2 of the MJO, and size-wise could not hold a candle to similar Saffir-Simpson rated storms of the past.
What is amazing to me is how, because of climate change hype, all this is being ignored.
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