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What could future hurricane seasons mean for the East Coast?
I saw this video on Yahoo (but couldn’t find it again to embed it - darn, Yahoo is annoying) that said that the warming of the northern waters could allow hurricanes to develop in places where they shouldn’t - i.e. right off our east coast. Usually our swell machines develop off the west coast of Africa and send swell our way as they approach continental U.S., but if they develop right off the East Coast, not only will the damage greatly increase, but my theory is that if hurricanes move the opposite way (away from the coast) then we will only get swell when they develop, and long-period hurricane swell will be very rare. Let’s hope that the East Coast’s knight in shining armor doesn’t stab us in the back.
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Poor west coast would have to know what its like :’(