Why haven’t we had an Atlantic hurricane yet? Thank El Niño.
You are about to time travel. Off the Pacific coast of South America, the band of warm water known as El Niño is mutating into a freak of nature . At more than 3 degrees Celsius above normal, it’s the warmest El Niño recorded since satellites started measuring sea surface temperatures half a century ago, and it won’t peak for several more months, potentially hitting somewhere around 4 degrees by…
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