Record US gulf warmth could spur damaging Spring

Trump, and the fossil-fuel tool he's installed at the EPA, and the new budget director who thinks spending money on climate change science is a waste of money should pencil in some serious on-the-ground damage inspection

and victim-consoling time in the US South and plains this year:

Water temperatures at the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and near South Florida are on fire. They spurred a historically warm winter from Houston to Miami and could fuel intense thunderstorms in the spring from the South to the Plains...