Posted on 10/27/2025 12:05:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less than 24 hours over the weekend, climate scientists said Monday.
Melissa is currently a Category 5 storm, the highest category, with sustained wind speeds of over 157 mph. Melissa is forecast to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday before crossing Cuba and the Bahamas through Wednesday.
“That part of the Atlantic is extremely warm right now — around 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), which is 2 to 3 degrees Celsius above normal,” said Akshay Deoras, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom. “And it’s not just the surface. The deeper layers of the ocean are also unusually warm, providing a vast reservoir of energy for the storm.”
Deoras, who has tracked the impact of climate change on weather phenomena for decades, said scientists are seeing storms intensify quickly.
“Climate change is fundamentally changing our weather. It does not mean that every single tropical cyclone is going to go through rapid or super-rapid intensification. However, in our warmer world, it will continue to increase the likelihood of storms going through rapid and super-rapid intensification,” said Bernadette Woods Placky, chief meteorologist at Climate Central, an independent group of scientists and communicators.
Deoras added that while hurricanes are natural phenomena, climate change is amplifying their impact. “We can’t stop hurricanes, but we can reduce the risk by cutting emissions and improving coastal defenses,” he said. Investment is needed in early warning systems, sea walls and other infrastructure to make communities, especially in island countries, more resilient to climate impacts, he said.
The world has warmed too much to prevent phenomena like rapid intensification, he said. Various global weather agencies found that last year was the hottest year on record.
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WE’RE DOOOOOOOMED. Run for the hills. We have never had hurricanes before. Wait. I thought we were all suppose to be doomed from endless hurricanes that haven’t happened.
Oh you beat me to it
How dare you!!
Good work
As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Democrats TDS ferocity.
Oh, PLLLEEEEEZZZZEEE !!!!!!!
Blow it out your ass, Sibi Arasu.
AP.
This is a Lower sSobovian abbreviation for “We are journalists because we couldn’t pass our third grade science class, tried Lesbian studies, failed, and went down from there - until journalism was our only choice.
Gads, can those clowns produce laughable ‘science’.
Camille was a Cat 5 and nobody said anything about it....... .
As the OCEAN WARMS IT MAKES THE AP PROPAGANDA INCREASE.
The theme they keep pushing, regardless how not a major difference the hurricane seasons get.
Climate Change is a scam to get us to use less electricity and water so the tech industry can take more IMHO.
The only surprise here is that they had to hold this ‘story’ until the end of October since it had been a hurricane season with only ocean-impacting storms.
Just last month, there were articles about how, for the first time in 10 years, no hurricane has made landfall in the United States through the end of September. Was that due to “Global Warming” too?
Excellent: Now experts, whaqt has steered every storm away from the US mainland this year?
Apropos, I was watching a couple of the latest Predator fares. Predator: Killer of Killers is actually quite entertaining. The one from a few years ago, Prey was fairly good also.
But even there, in the former we get the Viking "shield maiden" warrior, a Hispanic pilot in the last substory, and similarly in the former with the Comanche girl breaking gender stereotypes (LOL) and whites portrayed as greedy, eco-destroying monsters.
One of the most depressing elements of our current moment is the endless insertion of woke propaganda into every orifice of society.
“”””“That part of the Atlantic is extremely warm right now — around 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), which is 2 to 3 degrees Celsius above normal,” said Akshay Deoras, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom.””””
I am so glad the public schools taught geography when I was a student.
I am struggling to understand how the water in the Atlantic has an impact on a storm that formed in the middle of the Caribbean.
GFY AP
We need to stop teaching “climate change” in the schools. Kids graduate and believe everything is caused by climate change, it’s sad how stupid public school “educated” kids are.
Steaming bovine excrement.
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