COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Emerging El Nino raises hopes for another slow hurricane season
Description: Hurricane forecasters are reporting signs of a developing El Nino, a weather phenomenon that can significantly suppress the number of hurricanes over the upcoming six-month Atlantic season. An El Nino occurs when warm surface waters from the western Pacific Ocean are pushed to the eastern Pacific. The warmer surface waters cause upper-atmospheric storms and shearing winds that can thwart hurricane formation thousands of miles away in the Atlantic basin - the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]
URL: http://www.tampabay.com/news/weather/hurricanes/emerging-el-nino-raises-hopes-for-a-slower-hurricane-season/2168849
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Source: Tampa Bay Times
Publish Date: 3/6/2014
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