{"668525":{"#nid":"668525","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"This Hurricane Season Depends on a Showdown in the Atlantic","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELike a massive,\u0026nbsp;watery battery, the Atlantic Ocean powers hurricanes. As the ocean warms throughout the summer, it sends moisture into the atmosphere\u2014heat energy that combines with wind to spin up storms.\u0026nbsp;And the surface of the North Atlantic has never been hotter at this time of year \u2014 the early stages of hurricane season \u2014 at least since routine satellite measurements began in the early 1980s.\u0026nbsp;Because of this change, a showdown over this year\u2019s hurricane season is literally heating up in the Atlantic. Hurricanes could feed on that warm ocean water. But at the same time,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-looming-el-nino-could-cost-the-world-trillions-of-dollars\/\u0022\u003Ean El Ni\u00f1o has also formed in the Pacific\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and could provide conditions that\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eprevent\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ehurricanes. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, mentions other factors that may influence the 2023 hurricane season.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELike a massive,\u0026nbsp;watery battery, the Atlantic Ocean powers hurricanes. As the ocean warms throughout the summer, it sends moisture into the atmosphere\u2014heat energy that combines with wind to spin up storms.\u0026nbsp;And the surface of the North Atlantic has never been hotter at this time of year \u2014 the early stages of hurricane season \u2014 at least since routine satellite measurements began in the early 1980s.\u0026nbsp;Because of this change, a showdown over this year\u2019s hurricane season is literally heating up in the Atlantic. Hurricanes could feed on that warm ocean water. But at the same time,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-looming-el-nino-could-cost-the-world-trillions-of-dollars\/\u0022\u003Ean El Ni\u00f1o has also formed in the Pacific\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and could provide conditions that\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eprevent\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ehurricanes. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, mentions other factors that may influence the 2023 hurricane season.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-07-19 18:52:21","changed_gmt":"2023-07-19 18:52:21","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Wired","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/this-hurricane-season-depends-on-a-showdown-in-the-atlantic\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"171968","name":"Annalisa Bracco"},{"id":"2262","name":"climate"},{"id":"173794","name":"ocean warming"},{"id":"189478","name":"Atlantic hurricane season"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}