Will Hurricane Florence be worse than Hurricane Andrew? How is climate change influencing Hurricane Florence and hurricanes more generally ? Though climate change did not necessarily create Hurricane Harvey last year or Hurricane Florence this month, both of them were fueled by warmer than average waters. That’s what happened with Hurricane Harvey, which meandered back out to the Gulf of Mexico after making its first landfall in Texas, and then back in. Of the 50 inches of rain that fell over some parts of Houston because of Harvey, 38 percent, according to one study, was attributable to climate change.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2018 23:25 UTC