NOAA predicts below-normal hurricane season amid building El Nio

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11. The Hurricane Hunters are a treasure that 45 has now decimated.

I frequently go to the Recon section of the Tropical Tidbits site to watch their flight tracking and dropsonde data - https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/recon/ (not active for the season yet). E.g., they display this type of OBS info for both NOAA and Air Force recon flights -



The past couple of hurricanes that have gone across Cuba have still weakened and don't always have enough "room" to re-intensify to full strength before hitting the Gulf states... i.e., not enough time to complete an ERC.

But agree that climate change has definitely intensified these storms to the point where there has been discussion about expanding the Saffir-Simpson scale to include a "Cat 6" category.