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		<title>Erin</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2025/08/12/erin/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been a minute. We are all the way up to the letter &#8220;E&#8221; without much of interest happening in the Atlantic Hurricane Basin, but we now have Erin. Erin is a tropical storm but is expected to become a hurricane, and possibly a major hurricane. It is way to early to say with &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2025/08/12/erin/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Erin</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It starts. Tropical Storm Alberto has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, just to the right of Actual Mexico. As I write this, Alberto is making landfall as a naty storm with 50 MPH winds, downgrading quickly to a 35 MPH storm that will dissipate over land. However, the wet and disturbed air remaining from &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2024/06/20/2024-atlantic-hurricane-season/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hurricane: 2026, Atlantic Basin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Entry of 8/17/2023 It has been a quiet Atlantic Hurricane Season. That is expected for an El Nino year, when wind patterns tend to throw sheer at the storms, messing up their plans to become giant rotating vortices of chaos and destruction. Not sure if &#8220;vortices&#8221; is a word. Anyway, it is now* expected, according &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/08/17/hurricane-2026-atlantic-basin/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Hurricane: 2026, Atlantic Basin</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Nicole Meet Florida</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[November 8th Florida is about to get another hurricane. Tropical Storm Nicole is expected to develop into a Category 1 hurricane and come ashoire on the East Coast somewhere near Palm Bay, north of West Palm Beach, late in the day Wednesday. This is going to be a physically large storm, with effects over a &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/11/08/the-2022-atlantic-hurricane-season/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Nicole Meet Florida</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Heat Kills.  More Heat Kills More</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/22/heat-kills-more-heat-kills-more/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years, the Atlantic Ocean and other parts of the world smashed their weathery fists into the faces of climate change deniers again and again until the denial of climate change fell to the mat, bleeding, and forever silent. I wish. It wasn&#8217;t quite that extreme, but nearly so. In certain social &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/22/heat-kills-more-heat-kills-more/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Heat Kills.  More Heat Kills More</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/09/09/2021-atlantic-hurricane-season/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sept 9th: From the National Hurricane Center, pertaining to Larry: &#8220;Larry is forecast to move near or over portions of southeastern Newfoundland Friday night or early Saturday morning as it undergoes transition to a hurricane-force post-tropical cyclone. Hurricane conditions are storm surge are possible in portions of southeastern Newfoundland where a hurricane watch is in &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/09/09/2021-atlantic-hurricane-season/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hurricane Ida is the real thing</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/08/27/hurricane-ida-is-the-real-thing/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ida is currently menacing western Cuba. It will then pass the long way across the Gulf of Mexico, gaining strength every day. Ida will probably be a Category 3 hurricane by the time it has crossed the gulf. There is a chance Ida could rise in strength to Category 4. It is too early to &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/08/27/hurricane-ida-is-the-real-thing/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Hurricane Ida is the real thing</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The strongest cyclone known on this planet just happened.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/31/the-strongest-cyclone-known-on-this-planet-just-happened/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 02:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to Jeff Masters, &#8220;With 195 mph winds, Goni is the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone in world recorded history. Previous record: Super Typhoon Meranti, September 16, 2016, Itbayat Island, Philippines, and Super Typhoon Haiyan, November 8, 2013, Leyte Island, Philippines (190 mph winds).&#8221; With 195 mph winds, Goni is the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone in &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/31/the-strongest-cyclone-known-on-this-planet-just-happened/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The strongest cyclone known on this planet just happened.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A very stormy Atlantic Hurricane Season</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/09/12/a-very-stormy-atlantic-hurricane-season/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2020 02:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sally is going to turn into a hurricane, probably category 1 or weak category 3, and slam into the golf coat, possibly very close to New Orleans. In fact, Sally might approach New Orleans at a really dangerous angle. This storm is expected to bring a lot of water in land, for some major flooding, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/09/12/a-very-stormy-atlantic-hurricane-season/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A very stormy Atlantic Hurricane Season</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Laura is a Formidable Hurricane</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/08/26/laura-is-a-formidable-hurricane/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2020 13:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what the National Hurricane Center says. At this moment, Laura is a Category 2 hurricane edging over the next few hours into Category 3 territory. It is possible that Laura will reach Category 4 status before making landfall, but the storm is expected to weaken a little prior to the eye coming ashore. Laura &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/08/26/laura-is-a-formidable-hurricane/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Laura is a Formidable Hurricane</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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