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Title: A Busy Hurricane Season is Expected. Here's How It Will Be Different
From the Last

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/05/0027...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Yet another busy hurricane season is
likely across the Atlantic this year -- but some of the conditions that
supercharged storms like Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024 have waned,
according to a key forecast issued Thursday. A warm -- yet no longer record-
hot -- strip of waters across the Atlantic Ocean is forecast to help fuel
development of 17 named tropical cyclones during the season that runs from
June 1 through Nov. 30, according to Colorado State University researchers.
Of those tropical cyclones, nine are forecast to become hurricanes, with four
of those expected to reach "major" hurricane strength. That would mean a few
more tropical storms and hurricanes than in an average year, yet slightly
quieter conditions than those observed across the Atlantic basin last year.
This time last year, researchers from CSU were warning of an "extremely
active" hurricane season with nearly two dozen named tropical storms. The
next month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an
aggressive forecast, warning the United States could face one of its worst
hurricane seasons in two decades. The forecast out Thursday underscores how
warming oceans and cyclical patterns in storm activity have primed the
Atlantic basin for what is now a decades-long string of frequent, above-
normal -- but not necessarily hyperactive -- seasons, said Philip Klotzbach,
a senior research scientist at Colorado State and the forecast's lead author.

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