Local weather change triggered intensified rain, wind in Hurricane Milton: consultants

Clear-up continues at Clearwater Seaside, Fla., after Hurricane Milton on Friday (October 11, 2024).
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Specialists that human-induced local weather change made Hurricane Milton, which lashed Florida this week, wetter and windier, mentioned on Friday (October 11, 2024).

“Heavy one-day rainfall occasions such because the one related to Milton are 20-30% extra intense and about twice as doubtless in in the present day’s local weather,” the worldwide World Climate Attribution group mentioned in a report.

The impact boosted Milton’s wind energy by about 10%, making what would have been a Class 2 storm a extra harmful Class 3, on a five-point scale, the report mentioned.