Experts fear an already active hurricane season could come to an eventful and exceptional end.
This year. Scientists are watching *** rapidly developing and strengthening El Nino event. It's *** natural climate pattern typically every 2 to 7 years bringing warmer than average sea surface temperatures to the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. That warming can influence our winter weather. The effects of El Nino are pretty pronounced across Dr Daniel Swain, *** UCLA climate scientist explains El Nino is not just *** pacific story.
However, extremely high sea surface temperatures across the Atlantic"expand the reach of where something might form" into the late season this year, Brian McNoldy, a Senior Research Associate at the University of Miami, told CNN. On balance, the warmer ocean temperatures and weaker winds are winning, and more storms have been able to form than would otherwise be possible in a typical El Niño year,"Usually as we get into the back half of the hurricane season, El Niño tends to dominate, even if the Atlantic is warm. But we've just never seen anything this warm," Michael Fischer, an Associate Scientist with the University of Miami, told CNN.
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