Large swaths of the North Atlantic are well above normal temperature for this time of year, a trend that could affect the forthcoming hurricane season.
In the past few weeks, sea-surface temperatures in some parts of the North Atlantic Ocean have soared to record heights.
This year’s warmer-than-normal waters might help strengthen storms that form in the eastern Atlantic and eventually spawn hurricanes, scientists say. But lately, the Azores high has weakened and shifted southwest away from Africa. So those winds that typically pick up and transport Saharan dust westward over the North Atlantic are calmer and largely dust free, says Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania.If and when the trade winds strengthen, increased dust from Africa could help cool the area somewhat.
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