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Nothing unusual.
You have to take into account that there is an ~40 year cycle in the number & intensity of hurricanes. We've been on the down side of this cycle for ~30 years and are now on the up side.
As for the rapid intensity gain of this particular storm: if if crosses the boundary between two large currents and there is an equally large large thermal gradient between them this is what'll happen.
Since the Gulf of Mexico & western Caribbean are hot this time of year a storm forming in cold Atlantic waters that moves into them will be a monster.
Dr. Mordrid
You have to take into account that there is an ~40 year cycle in the number & intensity of hurricanes. We've been on the down side of this cycle for ~30 years and are now on the up side.
As for the rapid intensity gain of this particular storm: if if crosses the boundary between two large currents and there is an equally large large thermal gradient between them this is what'll happen.
Since the Gulf of Mexico & western Caribbean are hot this time of year a storm forming in cold Atlantic waters that moves into them will be a monster.
Dr. Mordrid
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