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On September 26, Hurricane Helene slammed into the Gulf Coast of Florida as a powerful Category 4 storm.

Over the next 48 hours, the massive cyclone wrought death and destruction across Georgia,

North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky.

In the wake of this multi-state rampage, you might be wondering what we can

expect from the rest of the 2024 hurricane season. We're clearly not out of the woods yet.

In the days since we recorded the bulk of the episode you're about to hear, Hurricane Milton

spun up into the fifth most intense storm ever measured in the Atlantic Basin, and it's expected to unleash

catastrophic wind speeds and storm searches today, particularly around the west coast of

central Florida. For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. Associate editor

Andrea Thompson, who covers the Environment, Energy, and Earth Sciences for Siam, is here to tell us more about how hurricanes are evolving in the era of climate change.

Andrea, thanks so much for joining us today.

Thanks for having.

So this here's hurricane season was predicted to be a bad one, but how has it actually been playing out?

So it's been a bit of a mixed bag. We did

see a sort of aggressive start to the season with Hurricane Barrel being the earliest Category

five ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean Basin, and that caused, you know, a lot of damage.

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