Climate change: Hurricanes get stronger on land as world warms
North Atlantic hurricanes are retaining far more of their strength when they hit land because of global warming, say scientists.
Previously, experts believed these storms died down quickly once they made landfall.
But over the past 50 years, the time it takes for hurricanes to dissipate on the coast has almost doubled.
This year, the North Atlantic has already broken the record for the number of named storms, with Hurricane Theta becoming the 29th storm of the season - beating the 28 that formed in 2005.
Now, researchers have shown that climate change is preventing these storms from decaying quickly when they move onto dry land.
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