Heat-driven shifts in wind patterns could increase hurricane risks along US coastlines, researchers say
Global warming is also capable of shifting wind patterns, which will further increase hurricane landfall risk in the U.S., according to new research. Global warming isn't just increasing the amount of moisture in the atmosphere -- it's also capable of shifting wind patterns, which will further increase hurricane risk in the U.S., according to new research. Heat-driven shifts in large-scale atmospheric circulation could escalate the risk of hurricanes making landfall on the Gulf Coast and southern Atlantic coast in the U.S., a study published Friday in Science Advances found. MORE: How climate change, rising sea levels are transforming coastlines around the world New model-based research found that enhanced surface ocean warming in the eastern tropical Pacific could trigger large-scale shifts in upper atmosphere wind patterns, according to the study. A man walks past homes that collapsed onto the beach due to the storm surge and resulting erosion caused by Hurricane Nicole, Nov...