The U.S. has been hit with a series of severe storms and hurricanes, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes and destroying millions of dollars worth of infrastructure. While Americans pick up the pieces from the destruction of Hurricane Idalia, a new hurricane, Lee, heads toward the East Coast.
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hurricane wants to form, and so el nino years with a greater wind sheer in the caribbean and tropical atlantic, tend to be relatively quiet hurricane seasons. we were looking at that thinking, well, you know, it s warm in the tropical atlantic, but, you know, there s an el nino, that s a mitigating factor, it will be, you know, above average, but not a hyper, sort of active season. what surprised us all was the excessive warmth that we ve seen. it went well beyond what the forecasts held, and that excessive warmth is overcoming what would be the typical dampening effect of an el nino event, and, you know, these storms, dagain, when they encounter that very warm water, they can intensify quickly, and they can reach a higher maximum intensity. so sea surface temperatures throughout the tropical atlantic, the caribbean right now are going to support this major, monster category 4 and category 5 hurricanes if they have the chance to form.
force because it won t slow down that much. the other hingthing going on, f we re watching the beaches for rip currents. higher waves in cocoa beach and such. but because of franklin, you need to be out of the water for a different reason because the crashing waves and the dragging you out to sea risk will be extremely high starting tonight. something to watch. you and i always talk about how does climate change make a difference in storms like this? makes it warmer, the storms more powerful and affecting conditions today. chad myers, thanks so much. experts say that florida s active hurricane seasons are being impacted by climate change in those ways you will heard jim talk about. the warmer ocean waters, easier for storms to intensify more rapidly, higher sea levels can also feed storm surge in coastal flooding. it all works together in a bad way. and we have bill weir here to