There are indications that, thanks to a lingering La Niña influence, the 2021 hurricane season may be abnormally active. The National Hurricane Center declared the system a “previously unnoted … unnamed subtropical storm” the following April. In some cases, the Hurricane Center even ingests data from third-party storm chasers to supplement observations. … But we don’t really know.”Nowadays, Morgerman’s data make frequent appearances in Hurricane Center reports, including that of Hurricane Willa, which struck the Sinaloa state of Mexico in 2018. “The Hurricane Center took an interest because they saw me tweeting the information,” he recalled.

Source: Washington Post March 21, 2021 15:05 UTC