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This Climate Central analysis was made possible in part by open access data from NOAA and the National Hurricane Center.
Climate change caused the maximum wind speeds generated by roughly 80% of Atlantic Basin hurricanes from 2019 and 2023 to intensify by an average of 18 miles per hour, according to a new Climate Central study published in Environmental Research: Climate.
These hurricanes were fueled by sea surface temperatures made higher by human-caused global warming.
Thirty hurricanes out of 38 in the study reached intensities roughly one category higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale compared to their expected strength in an environment without influence of human-caused climate change.
The study identified three storms that strengthened into Category 5 (strongest) hurricanes because of climate change: Lorenzo (2019), Ian (2022), and Lee (2023).
Potential damages from winds associated with each storm category (1 to 5) increase by roughly four times with each jump in category, according to NOAA’s assessment of hurricane damage potential. But even smaller increases in wind speed, without a category change, can dramatically increase potential damage.
To read the full Climate Central report, go here.
On November 20, the journal Environmental Research: Climate (IOP) published a peer-reviewed study showing that climate change boosted maximum wind speeds for more than 80% of Atlantic hurricanes from 2019-2023, by an average of 19 mph. Fueled by hotter sea surface temperatures, these storms became roughly one category stronger on the Saffir-Simpson scale than they would have been without human-caused global warming.
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