A look at several record-breaking storms already in 2023 around the world.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic are above average, but so are waters around the world. And as meteorologists have been saying for years, this can translate not exactly into more tropical systems, but into stronger, longer-lasting systems.
This year, three different storms have broken record ACE values. Now first, what is ACE?
It is a metric used to express the energy released during the life of a cyclone. So it’s not just maximum strength.
Think of a weightlifter, we’re looking at not just how much weight they can lift at once, but how much over the course of a set.
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The most recent record for this is Cyclone Biparjoy, which became the longest-lasting cyclone in the Arabian Sea and broke the all-time ACE record for that area before making landfall.
Just last month in the Western Pacific Super Typhoon Mawar broke the record for the most intense storm in May and recorded the highest ACE value for the month of May as the storm rolled over the Western Pacific for almost 3 weeks .
Then, in February, Cyclone Freddy became the longest-lasting and highest ACE-producing storm ever in any basin on earth. That storm lasted for five weeks and 2 days as it crossed the waters of the Indian Ocean.
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