If it seems to you that the massive storms rolling in from the ocean every year are causing more and more damage than the years …
If it seems to you that the massive storms rolling in from the ocean every year are causing more and more damage than the years before, you’re not alone. Scientists are noticing the trend, too and a new study published by researchers at the University of Wisconsin Madison and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lays out the evidence in stark detail.
With almost four decades of satellite data to go by, the researchers compared the prevalence of particularly damaging hurricanes from year to year, noting a clear uptick in the frequency of major storms.
The trend toward more powerful storms is quite significant. “The change is about 8 percent per decade,” Jim Kossin, author of the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, told CNN.
