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The Atlantic hurricane season is entering was is typically the busiest time of year. An average hurricane season produces four tropical cyclones and two hurricanes during a typical year.

Tropical systems often start out as tropical waves that take a journey into warm water that is at least 150 feet in depth. This makes the ocean the perfect place for development, especially during the summer months in the Northern Hemisphere.

Climate scientist and meteorologist Kerry Emanuel has spent more than 40 years at MIT undertaking pioneering research into hurricane formation and climate change outreach.

Hurricanes that went over the most unusually warm water for that time of year, and then hitm occurred before 1950. >> martha: that's very interesting. another statistic out there. you tell me what you think about it. since 1970, you've had a one tenths of a percent increase every decade. so it's the slow but steady climb, according to those numbers, that show that over time, the oceans are warming up. what do you say about that? >> the atmosphere is warming up. i think, probably based on the theory, over 50% of that is due to humans. but the warming is very slow. warm waters are only one part ...

The water temperatures will be fairly conducive to further development. so as a consequence we could see a category 1 hurricane develop by this afternoon. we'll be receiving another update from the national hurricane center coming up at 8:00. a category 2 hurricane going into thursday. as it begins to move into cooler waters, we think it will be downgraded to a category 1. all those theoretical but we look at the water temperatures here and very conducive to hurricane development with water temperatures 80 degrees and above, but further north those water temperatures are only in the 80s. we wa...