This hurricane season could be among the worst in decades, NOAA warns

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1. Warm waters across the tropical Atlantic in May 2005 prompted warnings of an active hurricane season ahead. A record-smashing 28 storms formed, including Hurricane Katrina.

   Nearly two decades of global warming later, those late-spring ocean temperatures are cool compared with today’s record-hot waters. Government meteorologists issued a seasonal forecast Thursday that predicts that storms could develop at frequencies and with ferocity comparable to some of the worst seasons in the past 19 years.

   The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast — which calls for 17 to 25 tropical storms, eight to 13 hurricanes and four to seven “major” hurricanes — underscores how dramatically the environment has shifted and increased the risk of destructive weather. The prediction is the most aggressive outlook the agency has ever made ahead of the start of hurricane season.

   Evidence of the increasing hurricane risk has mounted with each monster storm that [analyses show were juiced by global warming](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/04/12/hurricane-rainfall-climate-change/?itid=lk_inline_manual_8), the consequence of an atmospheric blanket of human-emitted greenhouse gases. As global temperatures rise, cyclones are intensifying about three times faster than they did decades ago as they approach the coast, research published this month found.

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2. Florida is covering their eyes with their hair so that the hurricanes don’t see them

3. DeSantis gonna ban hurricanes, problem solved.

4. Does anyone know if this increases the chances or ability of these storms to move further in land or further up the east coast? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

5. Hurricanes are Woke.

6. Always the worst, the biggest, the windiest – yeah we get it – now cope people or die.

7. The worst in decades, for now.

8. The worst in decades, so far!*