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Why Hurricane Beryl foretells a scary storm season

Seen from perhaps an adjacent pier, a few people among planted palm trees have walked onto a pier that is being pummeled by white waves.
People visit a pier during a high tide after the passage of Hurricane Beryl in Oistins near Bridgetown, Barbados, on Monday. Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in – and the kind of season ahead, experts said.

Beryl smashed multiple records even before its major-hurricane-level winds approached land. The powerful storm is acting more like monsters that form in the peak of hurricane season thanks mostly to water temperatures as hot or hotter than the region normally gets in September, five hurricane experts told the Associated Press.

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