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Yes, you should be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
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Not just early July. A full 16 days earlier than the previous record from 2005. The record before that was Allen(so the first hurricane of the season) all the way back in August 5 of 1980.
They also used to be rare, and are getting less so. Since 1924, only 39 are known. Since 1960, there have been 30. 8 of those(so ~20%) are since 2016.
Iirc they're talking about adding more category levels too because 5 just doesn't cut it anymore.