hurricane
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El Niño made the Atlantic hurricane season disappear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The National Hurricane Center suggests there is no sign of any tropical storm activity or hurricane over the next week at least.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Meanwhile Tropical Storm Rachel is paralleling Mexico's Pacific coast and is forecast to strengthen into a major hurricane by Thursday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
A hurricane is an engine that pulls in heat and is rotated by wind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
She’d been so ready for the hurricane to be over that she’d completely forgotten about the eye.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Of those, three to six were predicted to become hurricanes, with one to three becoming major hurricanes.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Although there haven’t been any hurricanes, eight named storms have developed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Warmer seas help spawn Pacific hurricanes, which have already battered Hawai‘i this year. As I write this, rhyming storms named Polo and Nolo threaten to bring flooding to Hawai‘i and Mexico.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Mexico gets hit by hurricanes every year, both on the Pacific coast and the Atlantic coast, usually between May and November.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
She came roaring down like thunder, screaming like a thousand hurricanes, eyes as bright as dragonfire, and before she was within a mile of us, the creatures had leaped to their horses and galloped away.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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