A study says Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic in just 24 hours.
are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic, a study said Thursday.went from barely a hurricane at 80 mph to the most powerful Category 5 hurricane with 155 mph winds in 24 hours. In 2017, before it devastated Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria went from a Category 1 storm with 90 mph to a top-of-the-chart whopper with 160 mph winds in just 15 hours.
"We know that our strongest, most damaging storms very often do intensify very quickly at some point in their lifetimes," Garner said, highlighting 2017's Maria, which some researchers said killed nearly 3,000 people directly and indirectly. "We're talking about something that's hard to predict that certainly can lead to a more destructive storm."
Oceans this year have been setting heat records monthly since April with scientists warning of off-the-charts temperatures.Garner found the rapid intensification of hurricanes was primarily along the East Coast's Atlantic seaboard, more so than the Gulf of Mexico. Previous studies had found an increase in rapid intensification. Garner's study was statistically meticulous in confirming what scientists had figured, said Karthik Balaguru, a Pacific Northwest National Lab climate scientist who last year had a paper demonstrating how storms near the Atlantic coast are intensifying faster before landfall than they did in the 1970s and 1980s.
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