The soaking rains and lashing winds of Hurricane Milton have come only weeks after Helene - but why are hurricanes becoming more intense?
Hurricane Milton was the fastest on record to intensify into a Category 5 storm Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Francine, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Milton and, potentially in a couple of weeks, Nadine. These are the names of every tropical cyclone that has ripped through the Atlantic Ocean this hurricane season alone, a number that has surprised – and worried – experts.
‘If the high sea temperatures are combined with high humidity and lower vertical wind sheer, a measure called potential intensity, hurricanes are also more intense with respect to the wind speed.’ Has climate change made Hurricane Milton stronger? Dr Otto, who is also a senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London, says this isn’t actually the right question to ask. ‘The question in this case would need to be the other way round,’ she explains.
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