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The anticipated arrival of El Niño will align with the Atlantic hurricane season, which begins in June and ramps up in August and September. Although El Niño occurs in the Pacific Ocean, it can ...
Following the El Nino event in 1997 – 1998, the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory attributes the first large-scale coral bleaching event to the warming waters. [ 169 ] Most critically, global mass bleaching events were recorded in 1997-98 and 2015–16, when around 75-99% losses of live coral were registered across the world.
In 2023, the Atlantic accrued 146 ACE units, making this year the most active season ever during a moderate or strong El Niño. The 2023 hurricane season was the forth most active on record and ...
The hurricane re-flooded New Orleans (though to a far less degree than Katrina), and caused about $18.5 billion in damage. [38] Wilma caused about $19 billion in damage when it moved across southern Florida in October. The hurricane contributed to 30 deaths, five of whom were killed directly by the storm. [39] [40]
The Atlantic season and its 18 named storms has already been above average, according to Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher with Colorado State University. But October usually signals changes ...
On the other hand, however, hurricanes in the eastern and central Pacific are the reverse of those in the Atlantic due to increased sea surface temperatures; [19] therefore, the odds of a hurricane hitting Hawaii [20] or, rarely, California [21] [22] are increased during El Niño years and decreased during La Niña years.
Hurricane experts say it’s too early to know whether so many storms will dodge land next Atlantic hurricane season, but at least one thing is clear for the 2024 season: El Niño isn’t sticking ...
The combination of El Niño and above-normal temperatures in the Atlantic Main Development Region (MDR) tends to favor increased hurricane activity in the eastern Pacific. [ 14 ] At the beginning of the year, it was considered that the climatic conditions of the first quarter of 2023 pointed to the occurrence of a strong El Niño event, similar ...