In bizarre weather news, Hurricane Alex in the Atlantic struck the Azores, and Hurricane Pali in the Pacific dissipated. Hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere in January. It's now a thing.
"The Northeast Atlantic is a challenging location for hurricane development thanks in large part to its relatively cool water. ... However, upper-level temperatures near Alex were unusually cold for the latitude, which meant that instability--driven by the contrast between warm, moist lower levels and cold, drier upper levels--was higher than it would otherwise be.
...Peaking at Category 2 strength during its eight-day life, Pali was the earliest tropical storm and earliest hurricane to develop between the International Date Line and the Americas, and it was closer to the equator than all but two other hurricanes in global records. Only two other tropical cyclones have been observed in January in the Central Pacific."
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