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Report: Climate Change Could Intensify Hurricane Rainfall by 30%

HeadlineNov 15, 2018

A new report in the journal Nature finds that climate change intensified rainfall in Hurricanes Katrina, Irma and Maria by up to 9 percent, making the storms deadlier and more destructive. Scientists predict that increasing temperatures could further intensify future rainfall in hurricanes by up to 30 percent in the most extreme cases.

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