Hurricane season is getting longer thanks to hotter temperatures

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Hurricane season officially runs June 1 through November 30, but Louisiana State Climatologist and LSU professor Barry Keim and a group of researchers are finding that hurricane season is starting earlier and ending later each year.   “Seven of the last eight years we’ve had named storms form before hurricane season officially began on June 1.

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