Human-caused warming will cause more slow-moving hurricanes, warn climatologists
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 - 16:20
in Earth & Climate
Hurricanes moving slowly over an area can cause more damage than faster-moving storms, because the longer a storm lingers, the more time it has to pound an area with storm winds and drop huge volumes of rain, leading to flooding. The extraordinary damage caused by storms like Dorian (2019), Florence (2018) and Harvey (2017) prompted Princeton’s […]