Climate scientists say storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm.
A brook in Leominster, Mass. overflows into the garage of a home following heavy rains overnight, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. But scientists said Friday the arrival ofthis weekend could become more common in the region as the planet warms, including in places such as the Gulf of Maine.
The study says the factors include warmer sea surface temperatures in these regions and the shifting and weakening of the jet streams, which are the strong bands of air currents encircling the planet in both hemispheres. “We also found that hurricanes are more likely to move most slowly when they’re traveling along the U.S. East Coast, which causes their impacts to last longer and increase that duration of dealing with winds and storm surge,” said Andra Garner, lead study author and an assistant professor of environmental science at Rowan University in New Jersey.
than the vast majority of the world’s oceans. In 2022, the gulf recorded the second-warmest year on record, beating the old record by less than half a degree Fahrenheit. The average sea surface temperature was 53.66 degrees Fahrenheit , more than 3.7 degrees above the 40-year average, scientists said.
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New England faces hurricane, tropical storm watches as Hurricane Lee approachesA Hurricane Watch has been issued from Stonington, Maine to the U.S.-Canada border, and a Tropical Storm Watch is in effect from Watch Hill, Rhode Island to Stonington, Maine, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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Climate change could bring more storms like Hurricane Lee to New EnglandClimate scientists say that storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm.
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Climate change could bring more storms like Hurricane Lee to New EnglandClimate scientists say that storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm
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Climate change could bring more storms like Hurricane Lee to New EnglandClimate scientists say that storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm
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Climate change could bring more storms like Hurricane Lee to New EnglandClimate scientists say that storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm.
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Climate change could bring more storms like Hurricane Lee to New EnglandClimate scientists say that storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm.
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