Scientists have warned that global warming could significantly slow down hurricanes, leading to even more
Their conclusions are based on meteorological data,collected since 1950, as well as storm observations over the past few years. They fed this data into a computer simulation model. Researchers have studied the “translational” or forward motion of hurricanes and storm wind speed. They found that no matter the wind speed, the storm can still move slowly.
For example, in 2019, Hurricane Dorian produced gusts at a speed of 295 km / h, but at the same time it moved at a speed of only a few kilometers per hour.
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“Our simulations show that in the futureanthropogenic warming can lead to a significant slowdown in the movement of hurricanes, especially in some populated areas of middle latitudes. This could lead to more extensive destruction, ”said Gan Zhang, a climatologist at Princeton University.
Using detailed climate models, Zhang andhis colleagues presented six different models based on 15 separate sets of baseline conditions, giving them a total of 90 different possible future scenarios. In all of these 90 scenarios, models note that carbon dioxide levels are expected to increase by 4 degrees by the end of the century.