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Hurricane Beryl slammed into the Texas coast early Monday, tearing down trees, blocking roads and knocking out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses.

“The expectation for this summer is something close to a record-breaking hurricane season for the Atlantic,” Nielsen-Gammon said. “We remain at a higher risk of hurricanes than normal, which still means it’s more likely than not that we’ll get hit by another hurricane, but the odds are higher than we normally would be.”

How the remaining hurricanes will react this year is hard to predict, Nielsen-Gammon said. In 2020, Lake Charles, Louisiana was hit by two hurricanes six weeks apart. And higher temperatures, due to climate change, push hurricanes to reach a great intensity.

“Whichever ocean is the most unusually warm will be the one that gets an uptick in hurricanes in any given year,” Nielsen-Gammon said. “Right now, that’s the Atlantic.”