Warm water alone doesn't make hurricanes. Wind shear, winds changing speed and direction with height, tears young storms apart first. Same El Niño, opposite result in the Pacific: 20 named storms, three of them Category 5.
“Water temperatures have been warm enough for Atlantic hurricanes, but El Niño-fueled wind shear, aka tropical-system kryptonite, is the biggest reason the season has been squashed.”
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Two months to go, and no Atlantic season since 1950 has finished without one.
“In more modern records — since 1950 — there hasn’t been a single Atlantic season without a hurricane.”
El Niño just gave us the first no-hurricane September in decades. How long can the Atlantic shutout last?cnn.comThe South’s Joint Chiefs put a number on the flight: launched from Wonsan, more than 700 km. That is the detection claim to hold onto.
Fair question from the BBC host, and an honest answer. The climate scientist on the show says he hasn’t been able to look at the exact methodology behind the 450,000 figure. What he will vouch for is the direction: extreme heat kills, and Europe’s summer showed it without any help from El Niño. That’s the right way to handle a number you haven’t checked. So I went and read the source.
