Despite the headlines, the official forecasts favor a normal season: https://www.almanac.com/content/hurricane-forecast https://www.almanac.com/content/hurrica

Despite the headlines, the official forecasts favor a normal season: https://www.almanac.com/content/hurricane-forecast https://www.almanac.com/content/hurricane-forecast https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/2023-atlantic-hurricane-season-outlook https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/2023-atlantic-hurricane-se... Seems so counterintuitive when you read about these massively hot sea surface temperatures. I think the long term rise in sea level temperatures as a trend is more worrying than any one season, as the overall potential for a super-normal event is apparently rising.