Wildfires are burning along the west coast, hurricanes are flooding the southeast – and some of those storms are rising from the dead.
“Zombie Storms” is the latest addition to the year 2020, gaining strength after initially exiting. And these undead weather inconsistencies are becoming more common thanks to. Climate change.
“As of 2020, we now have a zombie tropical storm. Welcome back to the living country, tropical storm # Poulet,” the National Weather Service Wrote on Twitter On Tuesday (Sept. 22)
Earlier this month, a tropical storm Poult formed in the Atlantic Ocean and landed in Bermuda as a Category 1 hurricane. According to CNN. It then solidified the ground in a Category 2 hurricane, weakening and dying five days later.
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But then, Paulette opened her horrible eye once more. She didn’t go.
According to CNN, Paulette regained strength and on Monday (Sept. 21) became a tropical storm about 300 miles (480 kilometers) from the Azores Islands. The term “zombie storm” is new, and although this event has been recorded before, it is considered rare.
But zombie hurricanes are going to happen more often, said Donald Wubles, a professor of meteorology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. And other natural disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes have intensified in recent years. Climate change And the fault of rapid global warming.
“Especially in some sea areas in the Caribbean, the Gulf (Mexico) has experienced a lot of heat,” Wubbles told LiveScience. Gulf of Mexico, where many hurricanes hit the U.S. Gains strength before hitting, is particularly susceptible to global warming because Gulf water is very shallow – and therefore easily warmed by temperature, Wubbles said.
Atlantic Ocean storms typically occur in warmer parts of the oceans near Africa, due to a combination of atmospheric and ocean conditions. They then “cross” the ocean toward America, Wubbles said. Hurricanes require hot water and moist air, According to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Hurricanes increase if there is a constant supply of energy from hot water and air, and they weaken when they move through cold water or on the ground.
“If they weren’t so strong, in the past, they would just die,” Wubbles said, on the Atlantic. But now, they reach the hot water in the Caribbean region and take the pick again, he added. This is also true for storms that have not yet died. For example, about a month ago, Hurricane Laura A Category 1 hurricane strengthened overnight in a Category 4 hurricane as it draws energy from hot water in the Gulf, Wubbles said.
With the warming globe, “storms are likely to intensify,” he added. Which means it’s about to be the most delusional time of the year, as well.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Paulette appears to have once again become a subtropical tropical cyclone and will soon die.
Published on Original Living Science.
