As you may know so far this year no hurricanes have made landfall on the United States coast. It could still happen but the season is almost over and no activity is expected for the next seven days.
I had the impression that this was rare. I was wrong. 2025 is thus far the first year for a decade when there were no landfalls on this coast, but if we make it through, this will be the seventh year since 2000 and the seventeenth since 1951.
Those are years without hurricane landfalls. During some of them landfalls were made by tropical storms.
I expected that AI will greatly improve weather forecasting and read an article this morning which indicates that it already is.
I did not know of Google’s Deep Mind Weather Lab site.
https://deepmind.google.com/science/weatherlab
I visited and am impressed and have added a bookmark to the list of sites I check each morning.
Unlike the government I do not shut down and am still going to the factory seven days a week. I do not like Daylight Savings Time which has never saved anything and find my body has yet to adjust to the time change. My shift now begins at what the clock says is 5 AM rather than 6. I am 73,000 words along and have just sailed from Darwin for Durban.
The photograph was taken at Cape York when I anchored there in CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE in 1981. I have not gone ashore on my three stops there since and am using it in GANNET SIX. Cape York has not changed in forty years. Or probably four thousand. The pinnacle is an ant colony taller than I am.
Six poems.
The first was written by Liu Zongyuan 773-819.
This by Zhu Shuzhen 1063-1106.
Zhu Xizhen whose dates are uncertain, but about who lived about 1000 A.D.
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