It may be hard to believe, but about a month ago, people were calling this year¡¯s hurricane season a bust.
Now the U.S. faced a second devastating storm in less than a two week period. In terms of pure quantity of hurricanes, this may still end up being a fairly normal season. But on a heating planet, ¡°normal¡± is increasingly dangerous.
Hurricane Milton churned through the superheated Gulf of Mexico as a Category 4 storm aimed at Florida¡¯s Gulf Coast, where it made landfall Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm and delivered devastating winds, tornadoes and rainfall. Florida¡¯s beaches were still littered with debris from Hurricane Helene, which made landfall just weeks earlier as one of the deadliest and most destructive storms in U.S. history.
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