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With the official start of hurricane season just over a week away, a meandering ocean current known to supercharge storms has hurricane experts on edge. The Loop Current, which flows
The forecast would make the Atlantic season, which begins June 1, the seventh consecutive above-average season.
The "loop current" is a current that brings warm Caribbean water to typically cooler waters near the Gulf coast.
University of Miami Rosenstiel oceanographer Nick Shay says the Loop Current swings up from the Caribbean toward the Gulf coast like an ocean river, moving warm water hundreds of feet deep. That can help produce dangerous storms like 2018's Hurricane Michael that rapidly intensify.
The Gulf of Mexico Loop Current could be setting up another brutal hurricane season