Hurricanes become stronger and wetter

Hurricanes become more powerful due to climate change.

The lab studied fifteen real hurricanes and typhoons, including Irma and Maria (2017), Katrina (2005) and Andrew (1992). Researchers had a supercomputer calculate what would have happened to the same hurricanes in other circumstances. For example, the computer took into account other temperatures of seawater and air, with a different humidity and with other levels of greenhouse gases.