The IPCC has predicted climate change could make hurricanes less frequent, but much more intense when they do form. Possible, but may be too soon to tell. The rate and intensity of human-caused global warming is unprecedented. What will its effects be on the future of hurricanes?

What happened to predictions of a ‘historic’ hurricane season?

Now, the Atlantic is making history for an unexpected and confounding distinction: It’s the longest stretch in more than half a century without a single late-summer cyclone, a time of year when severa...