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Tropical cyclones will become longer and more devastating, new research shows

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Tropical cyclones are now longer and cause more devastation, according to a study published by researchers from China, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia. And the trend …
Tropical cyclones are now longer and cause more devastation, according to a study published by researchers from China, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia. And the trend will intensify as time goes on, the study says. The study, published Tuesday in Frontier Earth Science, looked at historical data of tropical cyclones that hit East and Southeast Asian regions from 1979 to 2016. It found that storms now last two to nine hours longer and reached19 to 118 miles further inland. The most significant increase occurred over Hanoi, Vietnam and South China, the study says. Tropical cyclones have been devastating weather events, both on a human and economic scale. In 1970, a tropical cyclone in Bangladesh led to 300,000 deaths, according to the World Meteorological Association, an intergovernmental United Nations organization for meteorology. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused nearly $164 billion in losses after hitting the Atlantic coast of the United States, according to data from the WMO.

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