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Landfalling Typhoons Have Become More Intense

2016-09-05 17:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: In the Northwest Pacific, already a hotspot for tropical cyclones, the storms that strike East and Southeast Asia have been intensifying more than those that stay out at sea over the last four decades, a new study finds. The proportion of landfalling storms that reach Category 4 or 5 strength -- the storms that wreak the most damage, as recent examples like 2013's devastating Super Typhoon Haiyan show -- has doubled and even tripled in some areas of the basin, researchers found. The increases...

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