Toren Hynes, M.Sc.
@torenwx.bsky.social
PhD Candidate with Dasog Lab at Dalhousie University. Amateur hurricane tracker. NAFO Fella. Proud Nasty Canadian.
Time to ask the questions: Why did Houston hide this?🤬🤬 It’s been approved for months!! Anthropic is shady AF!! Trent Vichie is shady AF!! Construction already started after Houston stated months ago there would be no data centres, he fucking lied to all of us!! I stand with Halifax Examiner!
Halifax Examiner@halifaxexaminer.ca · 2d agoHalifax Examiner reporters thrown out of EverWind data centre announcement in Point Tupper By @joanbaxter.bsky.social and @dartjenhen.bsky.social
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Extreme Wind Warning for coastal parts of #Okaloosa, #SantaRosa, #Walton and #Escambia Counties in #Florida. This warning is only issued when a major #hurricane (Category 3+) comes ashore. #Isaias maintaining Cat 3 strength. Landfall soon. #wx #flwx
First (and quite possibly last) major hurricane of the season. If you live along the eastern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, I'd suggest finishing up your hurricane prep ASAP. If you're going to be evacuating, it's time to get out of the driveway now. #ISAIAS
National Weather Service@nws.noaa.gov · last wk.#Isaias has strengthened to a major hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph. Preparations Within the Storm Surge and Hurricane Warning Areas Should Be Completed Within the Next Few Hours. hurricanes.gov
Indeed, we have our first hurricane on October 8. #Isaias
Brian McNoldy@bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's all but certain that the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season will go in the books on October 8. During the satellite era (I'm using 1966), that is BY FAR the latest... by 27 days! It's an incredible 63 days after the median date.
The anomalies off the coast of South America in this #ElNino are off the charts, pushing 6.25C. Literally. And we're not even at the peak of the event. @cyclonicwx.bsky.social, I think you might need to extend the colour map...
🚨 BREAKING Y-AXIS 🌊🌡📈 Record warm waters in the main El Niño region reached >30°C for the first time in the @noaa.gov Sea Surface Temperature dataset. We've ain't seen nothing yet of the impacts this will have around the world.
Adam McKay@ghostpanther.bsky.social · 2w ago
I have serious concerns about how the Democrats and most media are normalizing these US midterms, prioritizing issues like affordability. The elephant in the room is the emergence of an authoritarian and corrupt RW President and oligarchy working to fundamentally destroy the American democracy.
Breaking News! y-Axis Alert! With yesterday's preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature spiking to a new record at 29.975°C, the y-axis was raised to 30.5°C. Meanwhile, the Niño 3.4 anomaly now sits at 3.33°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Until tomorrow ...
Wading into the "relative versus absolute" El Niño intensity debate: I genuinely think both are important--and I think we lose important information if we focus solely on one vs another. And both, as of late Sep, have now reached or exceeded record levels! [Thread]
Not really surprising, then, that the U.S. elected a rapist as president, even though that shouldn't have happened. And that the U.S. population isn't in the streets protesting day after day, even though that should be happening.
Anonymous@opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 3w agoA former Cornell student was drugged and raped by seven men. Two were expelled; others only received sanctions including suspensions, workshops or essays. No one was charged. Now the DA has reopened the case. #OpDeathEaters
Some crazy stuff going on with the warm pool right now. You can even see it in the raw temperature plot, reversing the usual vertical gradient. May see Nino 1+2 and Nino 3 warm even further as this surfaces
Polo's been a Category 5 hurricane for a total of 48 hours so far, longer than any other Category 5 hurricane on record for the Northeastern Pacific. 2026 also just tied 1997 and 1994 for the most Category 5 hours in a single season and should be the new recordholder by tonight.
This should terrify Americans. This is the true long term damage that Trump has done to your wealth and power. The reserve currency was your super power.
And over in the Atlantic, #FAY is back, with convection redeveloping over the low-level centre. Definitely a very persistent storm with good structure. The environment isn't super favourable for strengthening overall, but FAY nearly became a hurricane before so so...we'll see.
After completing an eyewall replacement cycle earlier today, looks like hurricane #POLO is back on a strengthening trend with cooling cloud tops and a symmetric, circular eye. I could see this storm making another run at Category 5 status overnight.
Tropical Depression #Fay Advisory 15 (9 PM GMT, Wed Sep 23): Low Pressure System Re-Develops Into Tropical Depression Fay.
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Looking at the sun set on hurricane #POLO in the Eastern Pacific. This a textbook hurricane, at Category 5 intensity with sustained winds of 280 km/h. Luckily it's not going to be making landfall in Mexico, despite its proximity to the shore, though it'll drop heavy rain along the coast.
Looks like #FAY recently took in a bit of dry air, but there's no doubt that she's got a good structure, which was probably helped by the convective burst around 23Z In the last few frames, the eye has popped out. This storm is probably going to become the Atlantic's 1st hurricane at 06Z.
There's actually a tropical storm in the Atlantic in 2026. I'll be darned. Her name is #FAY. And she's honestly probably the healthiest-looking tropical storm of the year so far. The system is unlikely to affect land in a significant way.
Canadians strongly believe they have more in common with European nations than with America
El Nino is the one (or, more accurately, climate driver) who takes the credit for this lack of hurricane activity. Not the President of the US. It still baffles me that there are some US citizens who would actually believe what Rapid Response 47 said on Twitter.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · last mo.That’s a taxpayer funded X account.
At peak season and the day before the latest first hurricane for the Atlantic... there remains no activity at all. Will probably see many more similar inactivity records go down before the season ends
Welcome, Zelenskyy! Canada is happy to welcome you. We know a thing or two about standing up to a big bullying neighbour. We're #ElbowsUp and #GlovesOff, and proud to be called "Nasty" for standing up for ourselves. #NastyCanadian
24Hours Ukraine@24hoursukraine.bsky.social · last mo.❤️🇺🇦🇨🇦 Dear Canada and my Canadian friends, President Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska have arrived in your country. I’m sure they will be welcomed with great respect and lots of love. Thank you for standing with Ukraine! 🙏
Cape Breton storm is yet another one for the history books over the past decade alone. Friday to Monday totals have climbed above 300 mm in the Ingonish area. In hard hit Richmond county, the Sampsonville station recorded 150 mm in just 6 hours on Friday night! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #nsstorm
And let's remember, this was not a tropical cyclone at all, or even a very intense system: 996 mbar is nothing in the winter, and even in summer, it's not anomalous. But, if a garden variety storm gets stuck and keeps dropping rain over the same area over several days, this is the result. #NSStorm
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · last mo.#NovaScotia 'We really weren't prepared for that': Torrential rain batters Cape Breton 46-year-old Cape Breton woman reported missing Saturday morning was found dead later in the day in a flooded area of Richmond County. 💔 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Well, folks...going by accumulated cyclone energy, the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is now the least active season ever by this date, going back to 1950. And it doesn't look like that's about to change anytime soon: ensemble forecasts show the quiet continuing for the foreseeable future.
