Scientists believe climate change is also reshaping the behavior of tropical storms, including typhoons, making them less frequent but more powerful
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Taiwan, the Philippines, and then China were lashed by the year’s most powerful typhoon this week, with schools, businesses, and financial markets shut as wind speeds surged up to 227 kilometers per hour . On China’s eastern coast, hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated ahead of landfall on Thursday.
Warming temperatures have enhanced the ability of the atmosphere to hold moisture, which is causing wider fluctuations in rainfall, the researchers said in “ has increased in most places, including Australia, which means rainier rain periods and drier dry periods,” said Steven Sherwood, a scientist at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, who was not involved in the study.
While it is difficult to attribute individual weather events to climate change, models predict that global warming makes typhoons stronger, said Sachie Kanada, a researcher at Japan’s Nagoya University.
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