If warmer ocean temperatures persist, we could be looking at more active hurricane seasons—and more disasters—in the years ahead.
A haunting set of maps from NASA’s Earth Observatory reveal the incredibly warm gulf waters that gave rise to Hurricane Milton, which is set to make landfall on western Florida tonight.
“Even if the maximum wind speed decreases in the coming days, the storm will likely grow in size,” said Patrick Duran, a hurricane expert with the SPoRT project, in the release. “This could increase its impacts, especially by increasing storm surge along the coast.” Though it’s difficult to determine the exact relationship between climate change and hurricanes, warmer weather indisputably intensifies the storms. Even if someone is dubious about climate change’s effect on hurricanes, they could dip a thermometer into the Gulf of Mexico and find it’s very, very ripe for the massive storms.
According to the flash study—as in, one put together quickly—by World Weather Attribution, climate change boosted Hurricane Helene’s rainfall by about 10% and its winds by about 11%. You can read the study in its entirety
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