One of last year’s many tropical storms was, in fact, a hurricane, leaving 2020 one short of the record

“That’s just incredible how the water was so warm late in the season,” he said. “And again, this goes with the pattern. We went from a weakening El Nino to a neutral pattern then to a La Nina. And every case we’ve seen it happen throughout history that we can go back to, it’s always been a really active season, and 2005 was just exactly like that — we went from a weak El Nino to a neutral pattern right to a La Nina.”