Capital Weather Gang's Angela Fritz explains the four factors that are behind a busy 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. (Claritza Jimenez/The Washington Post)The 2017 hurricane season has been a full-on assault from Mother Nature. This hurricane season — not yet even close to finished — has generated more destructive, land-falling storms than the past few years combined. “They speak very clearly.”If they continue to deny climate change, he added, “history will judge those decisions.”This hurricane season is, indisputably, a nightmare. “This isn’t a random coming together,” said Gerry Bell, a hurricane climate specialist at NOAA.

Source: Washington Post September 23, 2017 20:03 UTC