Warmer world, stronger storms: How a changing climate impacts hurricane season

Climates around the world are changing, and the warming observed around the world is very likely due to humans.

That's according to the Intergovernmental Panel For Climate Change, an international authority on climate change.

The results of climate change are far-reaching, but the impacts on hurricanes are becoming more and more evident each hurricane season. As the atmosphere and oceans warm, sea levels are rising and the threat for more devastating storm surge is increasing.

10 Tampa Bay Meteorologist Grant Gilmore explores the impact climate change has on weather, storms and hurricanes.

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Climates around the world are changing with human activity very likely being the reason for it.

Let’s start with the facts, climates around the world are changing. The Intergovernmental Panel For Climate Change, an international authority on climate change, states simply, “the atmosphere and oceans have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen.”

The IPCC also says most of the global warming observed over the past half-century is very likely due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.

Global temperatures and human-produced greenhouse gas increases are relatively easy to monitor and analyze.

Thomas Knutson is a research meteorologist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He mainly focuses on tropical systems and climate change. He says connecting human-caused climate change and hurricanes is difficult.

"It’s much harder to find these fingerprints of human-caused climate change in the hurricane data,” Knutson said.

He went on to say this is partly due to the fact that there is simply less data to work with.

However, the ability to observe tropical systems has improved a lot over time, especially since satellites really started being used to track tropical systems in the 70s.

If there’s nobody or nothing to see a hurricane in the middle of the ocean, there is no way to know if it was there. This is part of the reason why there isn't as much data about the number of storms in the Atlantic. Prior to the satellite era, the only record of tropical storms or hurricanes in the open Atlantic would have had to come from ship logs.

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