Hypercane is the meteorological word. It means a hurricane of millennial proportions (occurring once in a thousand years). The record is clear: they've happened in the past. And with the current trend of warming oceans due to greenhouse gas emissions, a worse one could be coming.
We're not talking here about an Andrew or a Katrina; these were storms of the decade that did catastrophic damage to Miami and New Orleans. But Katrina and Andrew would pale compared to a maximum-strength storm in the anticipated overheated Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico.
It is well documented that the ocean water temperature is critical to hurricane strength. Katrina, for example, exploded over an unusually warm eddy in the Gulf of Mexico before it struck New Orleans as a category 4 storm (winds 130 to 155 miles per hour). Previously, when it passed over Florida, Katrina was a relatively mild category 1 hurricane (winds 75 to 90 miles per hour).
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