Paradoxically, La Nina could raise the likelihood of the big storms, climate experts say. Among the Pacific-born weather pattern's effects is a more favorable midlevel jet stream from Africa, where hurricanes are born. The jet stream energizes developing storms. And researchers at Florida State University, who say hurricanes have their own cycles of ebb and blow, believe the country has started a period of more frequent hurricanes. But, with weather, you have to be careful what you wish for.
Hurricanes usually become more common in the later summer.
Farmers in Boman's area plant cotton capable of standing up to High Plains winds, Boman said. But a hurricane blasting through at harvest time, he added, could cost cotton farmers their crops.