If the forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center are right, the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season will be the seventh consecutive year of above-average hurricane activity, with 14 to 21 named storms, three to six of which could become major hurricanes.

As the first funerals began in Uvalde, Tex., Tuesday, clergy 2,000 miles away in East Hampton held an interfaith vigil at Hook Mill, offering some words of comfort on the unfathomable loss after a gunman last week killed 19 children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School.

Despite a high rate of vaccination, Covid-19 has proven an unrelenting and evolving threat to public health across New York and the country, and highly contagious subvariants of the Omicron variant mean a growing number of people have endured, or will experience, multiple infections, according to an associate professor of public health at Stony Brook University.