Over a million residents living near the Gulf of Mexico were forced to flee their homes this weekend to escape Hurricane Dennis. The hurricane killed at least 32 people in Cuba and Haiti but weakened considerably before it hit the Florida region on Sunday. Some 600,000 houses remain without power–mostly in Florida and Alabama. Dennis is the strongest Atlantic Ocean hurricane to form in July since records began over 150 years ago. This comes as more scientists are making a link between global warming and hurricanes. Last month the National Center for Atmospheric Research released a report that determined hurricanes will become more intense as the temperature of the oceans increases and as the amount of atmospheric moisture grows due to global warming.