Hurricane Milton is a major disaster — and more super-storms could be coming
5 months, 1 week ago

Hurricane Milton is a major disaster — and more super-storms could be coming

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With Hurricane Milton making landfall in Florida on Wednesday evening, millions of Sunshine State residents have evacuated their homes or boarded up businesses to brace for the impending storm. “Residents' perceptions of the danger the storm poses, and what their response and recovery experiences, will be are being informed by what they see going on in areas affected by Helene.” With federal and local governments already working to provide relief after Helene — an effort complicated by widely shared online conspiracy theories — responses to subsequent natural disasters, Milton included, may be stretched thin. Both the heavily populated Tampa Bay metropolitan area and the region just south of it are at grave risk, although some meteorologists have suggested the storm’s path may alter or “wobble.” If it continues on its projected track, by Thursday it will likely hit Orlando, another densely populated metropolitan area, where millions of people have either evacuated or hunkered down. “One would be more than enough,” said Michael Wehner, a senior scientist in the Computational Research Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who analyzes climate change data. But with waters in the Gulf of Mexico having “warmed so much because of climate change, I fear that we should expect such Category 5 storms to become more frequent.” Even with all the data we now possess about past hurricanes and tropical storms, said Tom Knutson, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, it remains difficult to evaluate the biggest or worst such events in historical terms.

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