A gas station destroyed in the aftermath of Hurricane Agatha in Mexico. Photo: Reuters
Hurricane Agatha, the first of this year’s Northern Hemisphere hurricane season, has departed a mass of destruction and death: at least 11 dead and 33 missing in Oaxaca, Mexico. And the forecasts indicate what’s coming it could be worse.
The threat that the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico becoming an “incubator” of destructive hurricanes is one of the biggest fears for meteorologists in the face of this new hurricane season in the Atlantic, which officially begins this Wednesday and It should be very active.
If the experts’ predictions for the 2022 hurricane season will come true, with the record of between 14 and 21 tropical stormsthis serious the seventh consecutive year cyclone activity is above average (14).
Road signs fallen on the road after the passage of Cyclone Agatha in Oaxaca (Mexico). Photo: EFE
Also, of the named storms, between 6 and 10 could become hurricanes and 3 and 6 of them reach the highest category, 3, 4 and 5 on the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale, of magnitude 5 for cyclones with devastating winds above 252 km / h.
A breeding ground for hurricanes
This alarm for another consecutive and destructive hurricane season is reinforced by the threat that the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico will act as an “incubator” for ferocious hurricanes or serve as a reinforcing fuel for storms in its wake
“The water temperatures of the Gulf of Mexico are crucial in terms of hurricanes and storms, as they get the fuel they need. hot water vaporfrom the surface of the ocean, “warned Anthony Reynes, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center (NHC), based in Miami (USA).
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