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From: Don Green	11/5/2023 10:33:57 AM
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Was Otis a fluke or a sign of the future? That’s a great question. Rapidly intensifying hurricanes have always posed a threat to coastal communities, and the strongest hurricanes to hit this country were all rapidly intensifying. That’s how they get to be Category 4’s and 5’s, and that tends to happen early in a storm’s life cycle within the first few days. Those biggest threats tend to come from storms that form close to land and then rapidly intensify and then make landfall right at peak intensity. Did climate change, in the atmosphere and the ocean, play a role in Otis?It’s hard to know yet for Otis—we still have to go back and kind of piece together what happened when we do our postanalysis. What we’re more confident of in a warming climate is the impacts from water hazards are worsening. Sea levels are rising. That has made storm-surge risk worse in some places, and it’s also exposing areas to the risk of storm surge that may not have been vulnerable to it before. Why Did Hurricane Otis Get So Deadly So Fast? America’s Top Expert Explains. WSJ

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