Neil Freiman
speaker
21,402 appearances
119 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3d ago
Neil Freiman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The most recent year the first Atlantic hurricane came this late was in 1941, when one formed on this day, September 17th.
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Forecasters don't expect a hurricane to magically appear today or at least for the next week, so we are in virtually unprecedented territory here.
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The eerie quiet owes itself to one main factor, El Nino.
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The weather pattern, which is unusually powerful this year, heats up water in the Pacific Ocean, and while that creates a tempest of stormy conditions over there, it tends to put a damper on hurricane activity in the Atlantic.
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For example, there's been this strong vertical wind shear over the tropical Atlantic this summer that's acting like a guard dog and smashed up many storms before they can grow into hurricanes.
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Toby, if you extend this to last hurricane season, it's now been nearly two years since a hurricane made landfall in the continental United States.
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But I'm going to stop there because I don't want to jinx anything.
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would be crazy.
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If we got to the end of hurricane season, which ends in November without a single Atlantic hurricane.
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Uh, I know everyone in Florida listening right now is like, oh, Neil, you just jinxed it, but could happen.
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El Nino is so strong out in the Pacific.
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There's a ton of storms out of the Atlantic.
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There's just calm.
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For my next number, Japan has more than 100,000 people who are at least 100 years old, breaching the mark for the first time ever.
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According to the latest health ministry data, there are now 107,677 centenarians in Japan, up 8,000 from last year.
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In 1963, there were just 153 people aged 100 or older, 1,000 in 1981, and 10,000 in 1998.
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What stood out to me is the gender breakdown.
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Women account for 88% of Japan's centenarians.
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That's due to a variety of reasons.
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One, women simply live longer than men.
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