Study finds climate change is fueling more storms with vastly increased wind speeds
Climate change has amplified the strength of Atlantic hurricanes by an average of 18 miles per hour in the last six years.Warmer waters are fueling more storms with vastly increased wind speeds. Between 2019 and 2023, 40 hurricanes saw wind increases sufficient to elevate them by at least one category on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale, according to the study published in the journal Environmental Research: Climate.
The study quantified the influence of climate change by analyzing potential intensity—a calculation that determines the maximum possible speed of storms under specific environmental conditions.Case Studies: Hurricanes Humberto, Zeta, and RafaelGifford explained that the research used simulations to compare storm data against a hypothetical scenario without human-caused warming.
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