A lot of people are asking about the role rising global temperatures play in storms like these. It’s not always a simple answer. — The Conversation
, so more intense storms can have a bigger impact on lives and economies. The damage potential from a Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds, like Ian at landfall, is roughly 256 times that of a category 1 storm with 75 mph winds.Bryan R. Smith / AFP via Getty Images
of rapid intensification were issued several days in advance, when the storm was still a tropical depression. They exemplify the significant progress in intensity forecasts in the past few years, although improvements are not uniform.. This would have important implications for the location of the storms’ main impacts. However, it is still not clear that this trend will continue in the future.
Besides having the right environmental conditions to fuel a storm, the storm has to form from a disturbance in the atmosphere. There is currently
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