Hugo Ernesto hit an earlier unexpected first warning indication…

Hugo Ernesto hit an earlier unexpected first warning indication…

Normally, it takes three weeks for a third Atlantic hurricane to form, but here we have Ernesto, threatening Bermuda.

After causing extensive flooding and cutting out power to half of Puerto Rico, Ernesto, the third storm of the season, has shifted its direction and is now headed toward Bermuda. Ernesto has arrived far earlier than usual because the third storm doesn’t spin up until September 7 in a typical Atlantic season. By August 9, over 90% of the activity that would have been created in a typical season this summer had already been produced.

Because of all that, Ernesto, a Category 2 storm at this point, is a warning of what lies ahead in the coming months and what to anticipate as the globe continues to warm rapidly. “Being somewhat over three.

As of August 9, this summer had already produced a third of the activity in a typical season — with nearly 90 percent of it remaining.

All that makes Ernesto, now a Category 2 hurricane, an ominous sign of what’s still to come in the next few months — and what to expect as the planet rapidly warms.

For good reason—the ocean is abnormally warm and is forecast to remain so—scientists predicted this spring that the Atlantic Ocean will have an extraordinarily busy hurricane season, with five major hurricanes and 21 named storms. The Atlantic hurricane nursery was running 2.8 degrees Fahrenheit above the long-term average in July. Daniel Gilford, a hurricane researcher at Climate Central, a nonprofit research group, explained that storms are similar to engines in that they require fuel of some kind. “They require a means of acceleration and wind-speed pickup, and the ocean surface serves as their primary means of doing so.”