Why haven’t we had an Atlantic hurricane yet? Thank El Niño.

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You are about to time travel. Off the Pacific coast of South America, the band of warm water known as El Niño is mutating into a freak of nature . At more than 3 degrees Celsius above normal, it’s the warmest El Niño recorded since satellites started measuring sea surface temperatures half a century ago, and it won’t peak for several more months, potentially hitting somewhere around 4 degrees by…

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