Hurricanes Are Moving More Slowly, Which Means More Damage (npr.org)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Hurricanes are moving more slowly over both land and water, and that's bad news for communities in their path. In the past 70 years, tropical cyclones around the world have slowed down 10 percent, and in some regions of the world, the change has been even more significant, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. That means storms are spending more time hanging out, battering buildings with wind and dropping more rain. "The slowdown over land is what's really going to effect people," says James Kossin, the author of the study and a tropical cyclone specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He points to Hurricane Harvey's effect on Houston as an example of what slower storms can mean for cities. "Hurricane Harvey last year was a real outlier in terms of the amount of rain it dropped," he explains. "And the amount of rain it dropped was due, almost entirely, to the fact that it moved so slowly."

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bring on the fake news

[Anonymous Coward]

Man slashdot can't stop carrying this garbage. If the hurricanes were fast moving the liberals would blame it there fantastical religion of global warming.

Take your pick

[shayd2]

If the stats said "Hurricanes moving faster" then the headline would be "Less time to predict the path and evacuate".

That's why it changed from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change". Any event meets the model and requires that we stop using any fuels

Re:Does global warming do anything good?

[angel'o'sphere]

No idea what you wanred to say, I basically stopped reading when you threw in the derogative about "liberals" ... what the fuck has political stance/orientation to do with this?