"Much of the southeast #Caribbean is on alert as Beryl strengthens into the first #hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, with forecasters warning of a “very dangerous” Category 3 storm."
"Hurricane Beryl is now a 120-mph Category 3 monster, a day after it was a tropical storm with 60-mph winds. The storm rapidly intensified at a rate unprecedented for June."
"Sam Lillo’s post on X tells you how explosive the intensification of Beryl has been. Lillo explains that Beryl intensified by 65 kt in 36 hours. He also goes on to say, “It took #Beryl 42 hours to go from a tropical depression to a major hurricane, on June 30th. This has been done 6 other times in Atlantic hurricane history. And the EARLIEST date this was achieved before was ... September 1. SEPTEMBER!” "
@Nonilex This is fear mongering. Russian cargo ships carry the weapons systems to be installed, not warships.
Russia was just visiting Cuba to pretend it has a meaningful navy.
I honestly believe that he is trying to swing the vote in favour of #TFG by encouraging #FuxSpews to report on just "how weak" Biden is and that #Putin would "never dare" to even entertain the thought of holding exercises anywhere near Cuba if #TFG was in power. (Though, of course, the reality would be the opposite.)
The Caribbean vampire—soucouyant, in St. Lucia and Trinidad; Ol’ Higue, in Jamaica, Belize, Guyana, and elsewhere—is usually a crone who feeds on the blood of infants. She sheds her skin at night and transforms into a ball of fire. In this form, the sorceress can make herself small enough to enter a house through a keyhole.
" Current summer temperature outlooks for the US are certainly bringing the #heat. Above-average temperatures are forecast over nearly every square mile of the Lower 48.
“We anticipate a well above-average probability for major #hurricanes making landfall along the continental #UnitedStates coastline and in the #Caribbean,” the group said in a news release."
"If you live in a part of the country vulnerable to #hurricanes, now is the time to prepare for this year's hurricane season.
Begin by finding the evacuation centers for your area. "#HurricaneStrong" is a national hurricane resilience initiative whose partners include FEMA and NOAA. They have a guide available to download for family hurricane preparedness that includes tips on safety, preparedness, resilience, insurance, and how to help your community through service."
It should have been on the front pages, but due to global events, it has been overlooked.
A large oil spill near the #Caribbean island of Tobago, caused by an abandoned vessel on Feb 7, 2024, triggered a massive clean-up effort as the spill affected approximately 15 kilometers of Tobago's coastline, damaging a reef and potentially contaminating the island's fish and food supply.
The ecological impact is still unknown.
Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy
“_An archbishop of Canterbury in the 18th century approved payments for the purchase of enslaved people for two sugar plantations in Barbados, documents seen by the Observer have revealed.
Thomas Secker agreed to reimburse a payment for £1,093 for the purchase of enslaved people on the Codrington Plantations, as well as hiring enslaved people from a third party._”
"The paper proposed aims to analyze the slavery legislation born between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the so-called Black Codes laws—enacted in all the greatest colonial powers of the Old Continent—which regulated life and transportation of slaves in the colonies. Spain, Portugal, England and France, between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, created legislative codes dedicated to the slave’s management in the colonies, which regulated all aspects of their life: from religion to marriage, from cohabitation to imprisonment, from crimes to corporal punishment."