Climate change could lead to threefold increase in powerful storms across Europe and North America


Severe storms could increase by the 21st century due to climate change. Without the reduction of greenhouse gases, the storms will happen more frequently and be even more destructive to our society. Extratropical cyclones lead to warm air being drawn from the south and cold air from the north, the production of warm and cold air fronts can produce heavy rainfall. Most of the destructive flooding occurs in North America and Europe. Researching are now analyzing the behavior current and future storms using state-of-the-art modeling and storm tracking techniques. With new advances, researchers were able to evaluate the changes and intensity of the extratropical cyclones with more accuracy. I believe it is a great idea to attempt to track future storms and weather behavior so we are prepared for a possibly weather disaster.

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-climate-threefold-powerful-storms-europe.html


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  1. AnonymousDecember 10, 2018 at 6:42 AM

    Its interesting to see how many things are affected by climate change. It is a good idea that they decided to track more storms.

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