Hurricanes are becoming more dangerous. Here’s why

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A record-setting hurricane season just ended. Here's what we know, think we know and are just learning about how climate change is influencing the world’s most dangerous storms.

Hurricanes are fueled by heat energy from warm ocean waters. As a storm moves over the ocean, it pulls in energy from the water's surface.

“We used to observe storms less frequently and with satellites that had lower resolution, and consequently, we likely couldn’t measure rapid intensification as well as we can now,” Klotzbach told CNN.More storms are reaching peak intensity at higher latitudes An identical storm will produce much more destruction if it makes landfall in a major coastal city in the mid-latitudes – say New York, Shanghai or Brisbane — than if it slams into a sparsely populated coastline elsewhere.show that more storms are reaching their peak intensities closer to the poles, potentially putting more cities within range of a major hurricane landfall.

 

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