Climate Change Made 2020 Hurricanes Wetter

Thursday, April 14th, 2022 Catastrophe

Climate change made the record-smashing deadly 2020 Atlantic hurricane season noticeably wetter, a new study says.

And it will likely make this season rainier, too, scientists said.

Human-caused climate change made the entire season -- 30 named storms -- drop 5% more rain. During the 14 storms that reached hurricane status the rainfall was 8% heavier, according to the study in Tuesday’s Nature Communications.

‘It doesn’t sound like a lot, but if you’re near a threshold, a little bit can push you over the top,’ said Lawrence Berkeley National Lab climate scientist Michael Wehner, co-author of the paper.

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https://apnews.com/article/climate-floods-science-environment-ff01bcf4f28a0128f4ccd2c7bd34b981

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