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Currently in Austin — November 7, 2023: Unseasonably warm
Plus, hurricane season is effectively over.
A Hebert & Eric Holthaus
November 06, 2023
The weather, currently.
Warm and muggy
If daylight saving time has you waking up earlier than usual, the good news is that Tuesday morning will be calm and mild, with temperatures scooting from the upper 60s to the mid-70s by 10am. The rest of the day will be mostly sunny, with an unseasonably warm high near 86. A south southwest wind 10 to 15 mph may get gusty at times. More clouds return Tuesday night, when the overnight low again drops to the mid-60s.
If it’s clear where you live, you can try NASA’s new “Spot the Station” app to catch a glimpse of the International Space Station, visible over Austin for five minutes at 5:28am on Tuesday.
-Anne Hebert
What you need to know, currently.
For the first time since August 13, there are no looming hurricane threats in either the Atlantic or the eastern Pacific Oceans. We can declare that this year’s hurricane season is effectively over.
With El Niño in effect and global ocean temperatures at the warmest ever measured, the 2023 hurricane season was busier than usual.
According to data from Colorado State University, Atlantic tropical cyclone activity was 24% above normal, and East Pacific activity was 25% above normal.
Some of the most notable storms: Hurricane Dora was a long-lasting hurricane that trekked much of the way across the Pacific Ocean, fanning winds on Hawaii that rapidly spread wildfires on Maui. Hurricane Hilary made a rare landfall in Southern California. And Hurricane Otis became the strongest landfall in Pacific history in Acapulco, Mexico.
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