Earth’s 2 biggest oceans are showing a strange—and unsettling—new pattern

This weekend much of the Eastern Seaboard got hit with an unusual September nor’easter, bringing torrential rains, damaging winds, and coastal flooding from northern Maine all the way down to North Carolina. Here in New England, the heavy rains continued on Monday. This year’s record-breaking Super El Niño is at least in part to blame for the scrambling of the hurricane seasons in our two largest oceans—which has left the typically busy Atlantic for the most part untouched, while major...