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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 hurricanes.

Its called the Loop Current.

The Loop Current, and it’s the 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks. It can spell disaster for folks along the Northern Gulf Coast, from Texas to Florida.

A loop of warm water in the Gulf of Mexico could aid tropical formation under the right conditions.

Meteorologist Payton Malone explains the loop current phenomenon.

With La Niña helping clear the way for a busy hurricane season, this wide current of warm water could spell disaster for the northern Gulf Coast.

For the past several years, a number of research programs have funded significant efforts to advance understanding of and forecasting capabilities for the Gulf of Mexico circulation, including the Loop Current, its associated eddies, and abyssal dynamics. One such program is the National Academies’ Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems initiative, which focuses on improving forecasts of the physical dynamics of the open Gulf of Mexico in space and time scales useful for the reduction of risks to of...

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A Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research team has been awarded $7.6 million to support its study of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current.