Tropical Storm Harold made landfall on the Texas coast this week, becoming the eighth named storm in the Atlantic this year. As hurricane season arrives, Texas Wants to Know set out to learn if this summer’s record-setting high temperatures could impact tropical storms.
"This heat wave will eventually break," he said."So as the atmosphere starts to cool off in September, the ocean is still going to be quite hot. And that's when I would start to worry that all of this heat we've built up has sort of built a reservoir for conditions to be favorable in another month or so."
Just because the season could be longer than normal, it doesn't mean more storms will threaten the Texas coast.says the right combination of factors needs to converge for that to happen. "It's a timing situation with cold fronts, where the troughs are, where the peaks and valleys are in the upper levels that determines, do they hit the East Coast? Do they move out to sea? Or does the upper-level ridge pull the storms through the Caribbean and move it into the Gulf of Mexico, towards Texas, all the way to Florida," he said.
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