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I know increasing ocean temperatures should be bad for storms.

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No, warm ocean is the very fuel hurricanes feed off of.

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but still I remember being surprized just a few weeks ago when a neutral and informed news source mentioned that all these hurricanes were an expected cycle in the pattern independent of GW [kind of a pun...].

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Reporters and science do not mix well. If you want a good source of information on this there is nothing better than NOAA. BTW, there is an independent cycle, but climate change will increase storm activity.