Higher winds.
In a 2018 paper, Dr. Kossin wrote that hurricanes over the United States had slowed 17 percent since 1947.
Because warmer water helps fuel hurricanes, climate change is enlarging the zone where hurricanes can form.
There is a “migration of tropical cyclones out of the tropics and toward subtropics and middle latitudes,” Dr. Kossin said.
If a tropical storm or Category 1 hurricane develops into a Category 4 hurricane overnight, he said, “there’s no time to evacuate people.”
Persons:
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Organizations:
National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, Hurricanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Hurricane Center, Researchers
Locations:
United States, subtropics, Japan