The Atlantic is frying, however to this point hurricanes are dying. What’s occurring?

Enlarge / Don briefly reached hurricane standing in July 2023. (credit score: NOAA)

As July got here to a detailed, the Atlantic Ocean was completely scorching, significantly in areas the place hurricanes generally type.

Within the “primary improvement area,” a stretch of tropical water between Africa and the Caribbean Sea the place most main Atlantic hurricanes develop, the ocean floor temperature averaged 82.4° Fahrenheit, a full diploma above any earlier July.

This type of temperature, a minimum of partly fueled by a altering local weather, has solely hardly ever been seen in previous hurricane seasons—after which solely throughout September or early October, when temperatures within the tropical Atlantic usually attain their peak.