How Helene and Milton were supercharged by climate change

As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida's central west coast, residents are preparing for the worst. The storm exploded into a Category 5 ...

The intrigue: Helene and Milton are a painful reminder that climate change is clearly affecting Earth's most powerful storms, primarily by ...

... was supercharged by anomalously warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier in its development, it had “explosively” strengthened from a ...

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are following the trend of storms becoming supercharged and more likely to form, according to WWA researchers.

That temperature spike, which stirred up and strengthened the storm, was made 200-500 times more likely due to human-induced climate change, ...

Additionally, WWA researchers determined that extreme rainfall from Helene was 70% more likely and 10% heavier in the Appalachians and about 40% ...

Three teams of scientists independently calculated how much more devastating Hurricanes Helene and Milton were as a result of man-made ...

Climate change also worsened the extreme wind and torrential rain unleashed by Helene, making wind speeds on the Florida coast 11% more intense ...

Scientists are speaking with ever more precision about the impact of the human-induced warming climate on hurricanes and other extreme weather ...

The impacts of Hurricanes Milton and Helene are not just natural disasters—they are supercharged by decades of fossil fuel extraction. Oil, gas, ...

Human-caused climate change boosted a devastating Hurricane Helene 's rainfall by about 10% and intensified its winds by about 11%, ...

A study by Climate Central published on Monday found the sea surface temperature around Milton's path was 400-800 times more likely because of ...

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Climate scientists have found in an early analysis that climate change made Helene far more powerful and destructive than it would've been otherwise.

Hurricanes Milton and Helene are the latest in a long list of those to be strengthened by climate change, the scientists said. On a global scale ...

In other words, without climate change Milton would have made landfall as a Category 2 instead of a Category 3 storm. Hurricane-prone Florida ...

Milton was likely wetter and windier than past hurricanes due to weather trends shaped by global warming, according to experts. A major factor, ...

Scientists say Hurricane Helene was also worsened by climate change. The head of AccuWeather, the American private weather forecasting media ...

He and his team found that storms between 1950 and 2022 were more likely to rapidly intensify during a marine heat wave than during periods ...

We have just witnessed two back-to-back monster hurricanes, Helene and Milton. The storms ...