Scientists are rising more and more assured that local weather change is making excessive climate occasions extra frequent and extreme.
When it involves highly effective storms, reminiscent of Hurricane Ian, impacts occur in a variety of other ways.
Perhaps most importantly, rising sea ranges imply that when storm surges happen, they’re worse.
A storm surge is an increase in sea stage brought on by wind and atmospheric strain modifications which notably impacts mendacity land and the communities that dwell there.
In truth, it’s usually the storm surge that causes essentially the most harm throughout a storm, as occurred in Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
As Hurricane Ian continues to tear by Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has already known as the harm induced to his state by Hurricane Ian “historic” with greater than two million individuals left with out energy and the true extent of the harm nonetheless unclear.
A warming planet additionally implies that the water cycle is being intensified.
Put merely, extra warmth means extra evaporation, which suggests extra moisture in clouds and subsequently extra intense rainfall.
We additionally know that ocean temperatures are growing.
This could make hurricanes extra highly effective as the warmth from the floor of the water transfers power to the storm because it heads in direction of land.
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There can also be a idea that implies local weather change could also be interfering with the atmospheric currents that hold storm techniques shifting.
Although there is not actual consensus about this but, it might imply that storms linger for longer over affected areas and do extra harm within the course of.
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