Weather

Study Finds - Researchers from Stanford University have uncovered evidence that hurricanes and tropical storms in the United States cause a surge of deaths for nearly 15 years after the storm passes through. This finding published in the journal Nature challenges our understanding of hurricane-related fatalities and reveals a hidden death toll that dwarfs official estimates....The study, led by postdoctoral scholar Rachel Young, analyzed data from 501 tropical cyclones that hit the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from 1930 to 2015. By examining death rates for various populations within each state before and after each cyclone, the researchers made a shocking discovery: an average U.S. tropical cyclone indirectly causes between 7,000 and 11,000 excess deaths over the following 15 years