Scientists at Princeton University have found that the increase in back-to-back hurricanes is based on storms getting wetter and stronger from climate change, along with a continuous rise in sea levels.
close enough for its wind, rain and storm surge to add to the problems, said study co-author Ning Lin, a risk engineer and climate scientist at Princeton. Her study looked at not just the storms but the problems back-to-back hurricanes caused to people.
“We found a trend,” Lin said. “Those things are happening. They’re happening more often now than before.”There’s a caveat to that trend. There haven’t been enough hurricanes and tropical storms since about 1950 – when good recordkeeping started – for a statistically significant trend, Lin said. So her team added computer simulations to see if they could establish such a trend and they did.
The reason isn’t storm paths or anything like that. It’s based on storms getting wetter and stronger from climate change as numerous studies predict, along with sea levels rising. The study looked heavily at the impacts of storms more than just the storms themselves. “For people in harm’s way this is very bad news,” University of Albany hurricane scientist Kristen Corbosiero, who wasn’t part of the study, said in an email. “We have been warning about the increase in heavy rain and significant storm surges with landfalling TCs in a warming climate and the results of this study show this is the case.”
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