Climate Change is Helping to Rapidly Turbocharge Storms Like Hurricane Ian

The current hurricane season had been uncharacteristically mild until about a week ago because of dry air in the Atlantic. Yet while storms aren’t necessarily more frequent, they are getting nastier because of global warming, experts say.

“In terms of impacts and climate change, yes, this season could be a harbinger of sort of what is to come,” said University of Albany hurricane scientist Kristen Corbosiero. “But it’s really hard to say that climate change has an impact on any one storm in terms of its formation or its individual intensity.”rapidly intensifying storms as those that gain at least 35 mph in wind speed in less than 24 hours.

While hurricane seasons fluctuate year-to-year, the 10-year running total of Atlantic and Eastern Pacific storms that rapidly intensified at some point during their life cycle increased by 35 percent between 1980 and 2020, according to an analysis of National Hurricane Center data by The Associated Press. From 2017 to 2021 there have been 30 rapidly intensifying storms in the Atlantic and 32 in the Eastern Pacific.

“That’s a staggering statistic,” said former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate and hurricane scientist Jim Kossin, now with the private Climate Service, a risk analysis firm. “What used to be a very, very rare event obviously has not been rare lately.”

What a truck load of crap.

Here we go, the 'Chicken Littles' are at it again. Everything that happens, the cry the same bullshit.

global warming is causing the drought, massive forest fires and extreme cyclones and flooding

Ol' Joe and I remember when a hurrycane might happen once every seven, eight years maybe. Now it seems like there's one every year!

It’s a category three and y’all are already posting this shit lol

The Royal Air Force had a fighter plane 83 years ago called the Hurricane. It was named in honour of climate change.

Are you sure those oceans weren’t heated by the sun?

be safe,floridians.👍👍👍☀️🙏🌹

Yes but hurricanes cool down the Earth.

Haarp

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What happened during the last grand solar minimum aka the mini ice-age? Do you know what Time it is?

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