Inside Climate News - A 2018 review of global data on hurricanes showed that, since 1980, the number of storms with winds stronger than 124 mph, or a strong Category 3, have doubled, and those with winds stronger than 155 mph have tripled. That paper also spurred discussions of adding a Category 6 to the Saffir-Simpson scale. The new analysis showed how just a bit more warming will raise the risk of very strong storms dramatically in places like the Gulf of Mexico and in the Western Pacific, where Haiyan raged. And it reinforced some of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent global assessments of tropical storms and other climate extremes.
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