The study looked at historical
hurricane activity across the entire tropical Atlantic basin to see if the current peak in storm numbers is anomalous.
The study looked at historical
hurricane activity across the entire tropical Atlantic basin to see if the current peak in storm numbers is... Read more
Not exact matches
Activity within the eyewall is closely connected to the
hurricane's overall intensity, with the vertical updraft fed by an inward - spiraling, ocean - hugging wind whose average speed is the highest
across the whole storm.
The findings
across three independent research papers show that human
activity did increase the damage inflicted by
Hurricane Harvey, said Michael Wehner, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
There has been an increase in extreme flooding, droughts and heat waves
across the world, but when It comes to tornado and
hurricane activity, these events are harder to quantify in terms of climate change, according to CNN's weather team.