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Waves from the Gulf of Mexico push up against the shore as Hurricane Helene churns offshore on September 26, 2024 in St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Abnormally warm water helped Helene rapidly intensify and suck up moisture

Rebecca Hersher

Helene is dumping rain across the Southeast, after coming ashore as a powerful Category 4 storm. Abnormally warm water in the Gulf of Mexico helped it rapidly intensify and suck up moisture.

Cars pass by the Llano County Courthouse on Dec. 14, 2021, during an unusually warm month. This past December was the warmest on record for Texas since at least 1889.

This was Texas’ warmest December since 1889

The Texas Tribune

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Global Weirding: All the extreme weather we've had lately isn't anything new, right?

Becky Ivey

Crazy weather, we see it all the time, hail and haboobs; blizzards and heat waves; tornados and tropical storms. So there’s been a lot of extreme weather…