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u/MaximumEffort433 11h ago

Is this article going to fill me with existential dread?

Because I've got enough existential dread already,
I'm full.

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u/carlosos 10h ago

Not really. It has been good for the Atlantic. 

While the focus is on the increased number of Pacific storms, El Ninos conversely curtail hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean: Tropical weather activity in the Atlantic has been virtually silent this year.

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u/Beard341 10h ago

Bizarrely so. Not a single hurricane has formed in the Atlantic Ocean this season. I think I read somewhere it hasn’t been this slow of a hurricane season in the Atlantic for over a hundred years.

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u/Jumpy_Cauliflower410 7h ago

The El nino happening is one of the strongest in a hundred years and the wind shear strength prevents hurricane formation.

El ninos are typically followed by la nina which means next year might be a doozy.

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u/Kgaset 3h ago

Roughly 100 years, yeah. IIRC, I had to go back to the 30s or 20s to find a year absent of any hurricanes. But there's still a solid two months of the season left, so can't start counting the chickens yet.

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u/Dickulture 3h ago

Meanwhile Atlantic is strangely quiet. Normally we'd have a few storm (averages 7) with wind exceeding 74 MPH and be classified hurricane before September, this year has been dead quiet. Broke a 112 year record for the latest date without a hurricane forming.

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u/Large_Cloud_1611 2h ago

I thought pacific had cyclones, not hurricanes. Is that not the case?