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to stream into this area. Again, I know it may not look like much, but trust me, as we get loafer to fwam time, as that game gets underway, this will be a sea of blue and orange and fans will be packed in here like sardines. Now, businesses in the city have also been preparing for the maufs. We went to one pub earlier today and the general manager there was telling us that on game days business shoots up. We're talking 80 to 120% more than normal. And he said because of that, even on game days where, you know, the game is away, they have to bring in extra people. Whether that's extra servers, extra people behind the bar, even extra security to keep up with things. He also wants to make sure it's something special for people that come to watch the game at the pub. >> I look at it as not just a sports event but a show. A piece of entertainment. From our scoring win draws to fwifing away hockey tickets and hockey shirts, to doing trivia games, to having a dj providing music. On saturday we're bringing in a face painter before the game to decorate peopleses' faces ready for the oilers game. Well always want to do something extra special than merely putting game on and turning the sound on. We want to make it an event. >> Reporter: so as you can see, that's just one way that businesses in the city are gearing up. We've heard of lots of other businesses throwing their support behind the oil ers. So whether that's making donuts that is are blue and orange, cupcake that is are blue and orange or just doing other things to make sure that the team knows the city is behind them. >> Travis: I've seen those blue and orange donuts. They look very good. Talk to me a little bit about the feeling among some of the fans that you've been talking to tonight. >> Reporter: oh, boy. Travis, people here are pumped up. They are excited. They can't wait for this game to start. You know, the last time the oilers were in the conference finals was just a couple years ago, but it has been a hong time since oilers were payable to make it to the finals, and that is something that fans here would definitely love to see. You know, just take a look behind me at some of the people who are starting to fill up this plaza here for that watch party. Everyone is in jerseys. We've seen people in blue and orange wiggles, face paints, foam fingers. People are wearing oilers flags as capes. And this city is just excited. You walk around here and, you know, we're in downtown edmonton. Normally people here would be in business attire. This morning when I was coming into work you could see people wearing business suits but then an oilers jersey on toppem business on the bottom, party on top. People want to show their support for this team. Now, when it comes to where this team could go, how far they could make it, you know, we spoke with a sports journalist who said the stars may be faved, but really the oilers have the star power and they could go all the way. >> The oilers are such a strong team. Their victory overnight vancouver was extremely convincing. The oilers power play is the best in the league. The stars have really struggled shorthanded during this series. So if the oilers can score with a man advantage and with their star power, why wouldn't they, they really do have a good chance, I think, to make it to the stanley cup finals. >> Reporter: and that outcome is definitely something that fans here would love to see. As I mentioned, the gates hoped not just along agoem it will be filling up. This will be the place to be tonight if europe watching the game. If you want to be with others watching the game, they're putting it up on several tv's that are here. You can probably hear the dj trying to pump up the energy for the crowd. It going to be an exciting night in edmonton. >> Travis: it certainly will be. I wonder if there will be some extra sick calls in tomorrow. Julia wong in the middle of edmonton in the middle of all the action. Thank you.

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average. The lower bounds of all those are higher than the average strms we get in a year, and that is unusual. As we heard, this is the most named storms they've ever predicted. If we want to dive in a little deeper to why they've give then forecast let's look here at the sea surface temperature anomalies. You'll notice that even though we have an el nino still in effect, it is quickly waning. We're seeing sea surface temperatures drop a lot compared to before. Not sure why it's glitching out. Sorry about that. La nina usually favours hurricane formation in the atlantic. Largely because it means there's a weaker subtropical jet stream. That means there's not strong winds over top of the hurricane pushing the top off of those thunder clouds. Pushing that warm moils air away from the hurricane centre. It let's the energy be concentrated a lot more evenly inside the hurricane, which means that the hurricane can grow a lot stronger. The other thing here we should focus on is the surface temperatures in the atlantic itself. Yul notice this area here in particular, the atlantic main development region, also known as hurricane alley. This is where where we see he those really high -- this is where we see those hurricanes form most of the time. You'll notice really, really high surface temperatures there. Just to compare that to one of the most active hurricane seasons on record, 2005, second most active season on record, take a look at the same this last week, may 14-20. How high sea surface temperatures were then, which at the time were extremely high, record breaking even. Compare that to 2024. And I think that's a pretty god picture of what we're looking at a travis. >> Travis: yeah, a lot of red there. So you taukdz a little bit about this, but let's dig deeper into what this forecast could mean for atlantic canada. >> Right. So this is a limb bit trickier. Not all hurricanes will come up to atlantic canada. It's actually relatively rare. Knows fearic conditions have to be just right. Even if we have an active season, 2005, 2020 the two most active on record, didn't actually bring much damage if at all to atlantic canada. In 2020 the biggest impact we saw was with hurricane teddy. We didn't see too much damage there fortunately. Everyone should be ready with your emergency kits, but hopefully this season will once again avoid the worst of it for canada. >> Travis: darius, appreciate it. Science and climate specialist darius madhavi in vancouver.

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