The weather in the USA...

[Kanda]

I think we're on our 22nd Typhoon of the year. (A typhoon is the same as a hurricane but from a different ocean)

ETA: I googled it:

Background. Officially, the 2024 Pacific typhoon season so far has thirty-seven tropical depressions formed; twenty-four became named storms. Nine became typhoons, four of which intensified into a super typhoon. This season's ACE index, as of November 10, is approximately 169.3 units.

 

[abe11825]

My friend in Peabody, Massachusetts (north of Boston) keeps sending me pictures of her area. Almost weekly for the past month or so, vicious wildfires are circling the cities near her. They seem to stop for a few days and then, due to lack of rain and having heavy wind, they start back up again. All it takes is one smoldering pile to start another section of burn. She said that it's so heavy and thick some days that her husband can see and smell the smoke several towns over while he's at work. He works the graveyard shift so he drives through it in the morning to get home. She has to stay inside because it triggers her asthma very badly, so she can't walk her kids to school or play with them outside. When they are driving to do errands (she doesn't drive as they have one car - his), they travel in such dense smoke, that it's hard to see down the road. It's so scary when she tells me this because it's such a new thing for the area to go through. There's no stopping it at the moment.