Will La Niña pump up this year’s hurricane season?

Here’s devastating and deadly Hurricane Katrina on August 28, 2005. For this upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, we’ll be transitioning from El Niño conditions to La Niña conditions. What will that mean for hurricane season in 2024? Find out here. Image via NASA.

One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year – El Niño – is nearly gone. And its opposite, La Niña, is on the way.

Whether that’s a relief or not depends in part on where you live. Above-normal...