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The Gulf of Mexico is almost as warm as a bath, and it’s stirring up monster storms
High temperatures helped supercharge Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene.
“The warmer the water is, effectively, the more fuel that is available for the storm engine to work with,” says Scott Braun, a research meteorologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who specializes in hurricanes. We do know that with Helene, the high sea surface temperatures along the storm’s path were 200-500 times more likely as a result of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels that are causing climate change, according to a study published today by an international group of researchers. With warmer than average sea surface temperatures lingering into the fall, coastal communities could once again find themselves in hot water before the Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end on November 30th.
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