Hank: The surface temperature of the ocean around Florida recently cracked 100 degrees [101.1°F/38.4°C], but what does that mean? Well, you can imagine the stuff living in those waters, like corals, are probably not to happy about it. But it's really lucky, like a hurricane didn't come through that weekend.

See, it's hurricane season right now, and hurricanes are ocean-powered vortexes of awfulness. As a tropical weather system starts to form, it sucks up warm water vapor from the ocean. The air rises as it cools, which forms clouds, and also causes even more vapor to get sucked up, and it gets stronger until - BAM! Hurricane.

Hotter surface waters mean more energy is available for that process, leading to stronger hurricanes. And while hurricanes normally weaken when they hit land, researchers predict that warmer ocean temperatures will lead to storms that stay stronger for longer. Which is why it's so dangerous that -

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