2024 hurricane season should be busy, NOAA says

Jan 4, 2024
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How unprecedented is this? Is this a "Used to happen every 30 years, but now it's much more common.", or more like a "there's never been a year this bad."? Sources are appreciated.
 
The parameters that are "unprecedented" are the surface temperatures of the Atlantic Ocean , the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, in combination with a change to La Nina condition in the Pacific Ocean, which tends to not disrupt the formation of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin.
I recently read a nice report that talked about the previous historical transitions from the El Nino condition and the La Nina condition and what followed in the way of Atlantic hurricanes, and I thought I saved the link, but can't find that now. A quick search did not find the same article, but, for some discussion, see https://theconversation.com/hurrica...cean-teaming-up-to-power-fierce-storms-228351 .