Correction to: Communications Earth & Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00494-7, published online 22 July 2022.

The original version of this Article contained an error in Fig. 4, in which panel b plotted the 25-year moving averages of tropical cyclone precipitation and Atlantic multidecadal variability instead of the cross-correlation between Atlantic multidecadal variability and tropical cyclone precipitation. The correct version of Fig. 4 is:

which replaces the previous incorrect version:

This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.