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by drewcoo
884 days ago
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The story is a little misleading. > 2024 will mark a rare natural event as two distinct cicada broods emerge together for the first time in over two centuries. That means these two particular broods haven't seen each other in that long. It doesn't mean no broods have coincided in the last two centuries, though that makes for punchier stories. https://www.newsweek.com/cicadas-brood-both-emerging-same-ti... There are 15 broods in total. They emerge on 13- or 17-year cycles. https://cicadas.uconn.edu/broods/ When I lived in the PNW, I really missed cicadas. Am looking forward to this year's songs! |
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Based on the table linked in this thread, it's rare enough to be interesting on its own. Geographical overlap of broods emerging doesn't appear to have happened since 1998 and then only in Oklahoma.
But yeah, it's weather.com, they've been clickbait since not long after clickbait began.