Historical: 3 major hurricanes simultaneously in Pacific east of Int'l Dateline -
Kilo, Ignacio & Jimena
(good thing climate change is not real...whew!)
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What a photo. 
Do I see the Hawaiian Islands between the left and the center one?
K&R
bookmarked
I can never remember movie or music titles. At least I retain some of the substance!
That's a cool portal for info! I like that one. I've been using this one out of Canada for a few years:
http://solarimg.org/artis/
Sometimes the links and graphics come and go but it's still pretty useful.
Looks like short term and long term changes are coming together to magnify impact.
http://www.adn.com/article/20150801/another-unusually-warm-winter-forecast-alaska
All of Alaska is likely to be warmer than normal in the next three months, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center. Probabilities of unusual warmth edge up to 80 percent in the Gulf of Alaska coastal areas. The outlook extending into the next year also predicts warmer than normal temperatures for almost all of the state, with similar heat expected in the Pacific Northwest and the West Coast.
The warmth has multiple sources: persistently high sea surface temperatures, which are expected to linger; a shift into a positive and warm phase of the cyclical Pacific Decadal Oscillation; a powerful El Nino that is developing in the Pacific; and wavy jet-stream patterns that bring warm weather north and cold weather south.
All of that comes on top of long-term warming in Alaska and in the Arctic.
“That’s kind of in the background that everything’s projected onto. Every year, that background gets a little brighter, a little redder,” said Thoman, who prepared the Alaska section of the August/September/October forecast.
