On a Stateside visit years ago,

I was warned - and with good reason,

To take care to avoid when hard winds blow

At the time of the "Hurricane Season".

 

The storms that have materialised

To reek recent havoc there

Are coincidentally appearing

With what is witnessed elsewhere.

 

The media news has been omitting

Stargazing's overheated surprise:

Excessive activity on our sun

Seen by NASA checking the skies.

 

And since the hot and cold react

To stir up sea and air,

Producing storms to show that Nature

Retains the power to scare -

 

It seems that Irma and the rest

Are stoked up in their ire,

Their fatal fury fed and fuelled

By huge flares on the Ball of Fire.

 

Mankind may worry about its effect

On Earth's fragile atmosphere,

But compared with 'old Sol' I suspect

It's neither there - nor here!

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