2025 hurricane season shows effects of climate change : NPR
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Key Points:
- The 2025 hurricane season was unusual, with no storms making landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2015 and a three-week lull in Atlantic storm formation, yet featured three Category 5 hurricanes, the second highest number on record.
- Experts attribute the increase in powerful hurricanes to climate change, which has caused ocean temperatures in the Atlantic to rise significantly, providing more energy for storms to intensify.
- Despite the high intensity of some storms, wind shear limited the total number of hurricanes to an average level, as strong atmospheric winds disrupted storm formation.
- Climate models predict that as global warming continues, the Atlantic will likely see fewer overall hurricanes but a higher proportion of very intense storms, a pattern exempl
