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A Monster Hurricane Season Is Coming—and Here’s the Culprit

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A swirl of warm tropical water called the Loop Current is unusually far north this year. That’s bad news.

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The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster...

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