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Climate change triggered intensified rain, wind in Hurricane Milton: experts

October 11, 2024 admin

Clean-up continues at Clearwater Beach, Fla., after Hurricane Milton on Friday (October 11, 2024). | Photo Credit: AP Experts that human-induced climate change made Hurricane Milton, which lashed Florida this week, wetter and windier, said on Friday (October 11, 2024). “Heavy one-day rainfall events such as the one associated with Milton are 20-30% more intense…

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Ocean Heat Behind Helene Made 500 Times More Likely By Climate Change

October 9, 2024 admin

Climate change intensified Hurricane Helene’s rainfall and winds, amplifying its devastation, a new rapid analysis found. The Gulf of Mexico has been abnormally warm, which helped turn Helene into the deadliest hurricane to hit the US mainland in nearly two decades. Burning fossil fuels made that extra ocean heat up to 500 times more likely,…

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Hurricane Beryl roars by Jamaica after killing at least 6 people in the southeast Caribbean

July 3, 2024 admin

Hurricane Beryl was roaring by Jamaica on Wednesday, with islanders scrambling to make preparations after the powerful Category 4 storm earlier killed at least six people and caused significant damage in the southeast Caribbean. In Kingston, people boarded up windows, fishermen pulled their boats out of the water and workers dismantled roadside advertising boards to…

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Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category

February 6, 2024 admin

This GOES-West GeoColor composite satellite image provided by The National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows a storm moving over California and the Western U.S. on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of…

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Hurricane Idalia Grinds into Georgia After Slamming Florida

August 30, 2023 admin

Two motorists died in separate rain-related crashes on Wednesday morning. Florida: Hurricane Idalia brought torrential rain and threats of flash flooding on Wednesday afternoon to southeast Georgia after slamming into Florida, where authorities feared a powerful storm surge may have inundated communities in the Big Bend region. Authorities in Florida were still trying to carry…

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As Hurricane Idalia Heads Towards Florida, Rare Blue Supermoon Could Worsen Tides

August 30, 2023 admin

A woman walks on a flooded street as Storm Idalia makes landfall in Cuba on Monday. Hurricane Idalia is crawling towards the Florida Gulf Coast, forcing mass evacuations in low-lying areas that are expected to be swamped once the Category 3 storm makes landfall on Wednesday morning (local time). It is expected to intensify into…

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