<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4AX4B7_0vkvTEUW00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4AX4B7_0vkvTEUW00" width="1320" height="743" >(WPDE) — The consistently changing climate is causing many aspects of Earth's atmosphere and environment to change with it. The biggest factor is the planet's overall temperature rising.This overall temperature is not necessarily the temperature we feel fluctuate day to day, but the global average temperature is what is tracked to detect warming on Earth. Over a period of time, this warming is noted as climatic warming.The warming of the Earth's average temperature overall illustrates extra heat that would not be around without the bump in greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the atmosphere, caused by burning fossil fuels. This extra heat has to go somewhere given how the planet budgets things, meaning it is absorbed by aspects of the atmosphere and environment.Only seven percent of this added warming is being absorbed by the land, air, and ice.<img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4GkoUr_0vkvTEUW00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4GkoUr_0vkvTEUW00" width="648" height="365" >The oceans are absorbing the rest of this extra heat, causing the oceans to warm as a result. The upper layers of the ocean, or those near the surface, are warming the most. However, deeper layers of the ocean are also experiencing warming.Warming in the oceans means a decrease in sea ice over time, adding to ocean levels.As warming occurs in the oceans, there is more warm air available, which means more moisture. Over time, this is forecast to increase per climatological studies.More warm air around than what would naturally exist means more water vapor, and therefore, more moisture to be utilized by the atmosphere. Moisture is a key ingredient in many meteorological systems, so more moisture available means a change in what can be achieved by certain weather patterns.With warmer oceans and more moisture in the air above the oceans, tropical systems will have even more components available to thrive. However,tropical system frequency in the Atlantic likely decreasesdue to climate change.Keeping the added moisture and heat in mind, this means higher rainfall totals and higher storm surges are more likely in the storms that can form. This is a trend that has already been noted in the last few decades.Since 2017, the Continental U.S. has experienced a few record-setting rainfall totals from single tropical systems for states.Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Arkansas have all set their state records in the last decade for rainfall from a single tropical system.Hurricane Harvey in 2017 set the overall record in the whole country for rainfall from one system.<img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2pqsEE_0vkvTEUW00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2pqsEE_0vkvTEUW00" width="648" height="365" >Hurricane Florence set single-system rainfall records in both of the Carolinas the next year.Then in 2019, Hurricane Barry meandered over the Southern U.S. and dumped almost 17 inches of rainfall over parts of Arkansas.Other noteworthy tropical systems causing extreme rainfall include Tropical Storm Amelia in 1978 in Texas causing 48 inches of rainfall, and Hurricane Lane in 2018 in Hawai'i, causing 58 inches of rainfall.The thing that all of these systems have in common is their slow motion. Due to steering currents, forward motion in tropical systems is forecast to slow down.This is especially worth monitoring as heavy rainfall causing freshwater flooding is the leading cause of death in direct tropical systems.While there is still much to study and learn at the intersection of tropical systems and our changing climate, scientists do know that the probability of a high-end rainfall event from a tropical system is more likely. There is also a high probability that storm surge will likely be higher in landfalling storms due to the loss of sea ice as the oceans warm.As climate change continues to minorly impact certain environmental and atmospheric factors, the butterfly effect will alter larger scale patterns in the weather, and over time, the climate.</div></body>

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How climate change is making tropical storms more destructive

(WPDE) — The consistently changing climate is causing many aspects of Earth's atmosphere and environment to change with it. The biggest factor is the planet's overall temperature rising. This overall temperature is not necessarily the temperature we feel fluctuate day to day, but the global average temperature is what...