It could well be a blockbuster hurricane season, and that’s not a good thing
by Eric Berger from Ars Technica - All content on (#6KVJN)
Enlarge / As of late March, much of the Atlantic Ocean was seeing temperatures far above normal. (credit: Weathermodels.com)
The Atlantic hurricane season does not begin for another eight weeks, but we are deep in the heart of hurricane season prediction season.
On Thursday, the most influential of these forecasts was issued by Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane scientist at Colorado State University. To put a fine point on it, Klotzbach and his team foresee an exceptionally busy season in the Atlantic basin, which encompasses the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico.
"We anticipate that the 2024 Atlantic basin hurricane season will be extremely active," Klotzbach wrote in his forecast discussion.