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Extreme storms will grow bigger as the world warms

Rising temperatures will mean that intense storms in the mid-latitudes will sprawl over a larger area.
Hurricane Florence as seen over the Atlantic Ocean close to the US east coast, viewed from the space station.

The size of extreme storms such as the 2018 system called Hurricane Florence, which reached 600 kilometres in diameter, is projected to grow as global temperatures rise. Credit: NASA/Getty

Global warming will make extreme storms not only stronger, but also larger1.

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Nature 606, 10 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01448-x

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  1. Dai, P. & Nie, J. Geophys. Res. Lett. 49, e2022GL099007 (2022).

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