Andrew Dessler: Nice article in The Conversation from Prof. Brian Tang on rapid intensification of hurricanes and how this connects to climate change. theconversation.com/...

Nice article in The Conversation from Prof. Brian Tang on rapid intensification of hurricanes and how this connects to climate change. theconversation.com/...

Hurricane Beryl’s rapid intensification, Category 5 winds so early in a season were alarming: Here’s why more tropical storms are exploding in strengththeconversation.com Beryl’s strength and rapid intensification set records, raising alarms about what’s already expected to be a very active Atlantic hurricane season, as a meteorologist explains.

You can see it here if you count. Since 2000, (24.5 years) we've had 17 category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic. The previous 17 stretch back to 1938. i.e. 62 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

I saw a chart somewhere a couple of years back which plotted hurricane category over time. Back in the 60s-70s, there were maybe between 0-5 cat 5 storms per decade. Now we are getting one or more per year it seems. #climatechange

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