“It’s not like we’re breaking records by a little bit now and then,” Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, said. “It’s like the whole climate just fast-forwarded by fifty or a hundred years. That’s how strange this looks.”

"strange" in this context means "terrifying" --

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-is-the-sea-so-hot