To no one's surprised, it's been confirmed that May 2024 was the hottest month of May on record. The average global temperature last May was 2.12° F above the 20th-century average of 58.6. The month marked the 12th-consecutive month of record-high temperatures for the planet.
Also as expected, that broad area of low pressure over the Bay of Campeche has developed into Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the season. Heavy rainfall associated with Alberto will impact large regions of Central America, north across northeastern Mexico and into South Texas. This rainfall will likely produce considerable life-threatening flash and urban flooding along with river flooding and mudslides near areas of higher terrain across the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas, including the cities of Monterrey and Ciudad Victoria. Moderate coastal flooding is likely along much of the Texas coast through Thursday. Tornadoes are possible today and tonight across parts of deep-south and southeast Texas.
For those of us on the Universal Solar Calendar, the 2024 Hurricane Season started on the Fifth Day of the Icon and will last all the way until the sounding of the Winter Drum.
Impermanence is swift: yesterday, Willie Mays, Anouk Aimée, and James Chance (of James Chance and the Contortions) passed away. I saw James Chance perform at Atlanta's 688 club in '82 or '83. It was an insane show and I danced with a zombie. Here's a video from that time of him performing as "James White" in Paris. For some reason, French videos always seem to start with long verbal introductions and this one cuts at the very end to a performance by Nick Cave for some reason. Regardless, you'll get the idea of the kind of fire Chance (aka White) was playing with live on stage that night in 1982 (or '83).
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