![]() So you need to have a combination of climate and other factors setting the table but also the weather playing along, unfortunately, to make these storms intensify. But then you also need to have the weather and the winds in the atmosphere, the humidity, be in the right condition so that the storm itself can tap into that energy. ![]() ![]() VECCHI: Well, in order for a storm to get much stronger, you need to have fuel, and fuel comes in the form of warm ocean. MARTIN: Can you explain those other factors? I mean, what is the science behind what makes these storms stronger? But we are having growing confidence that global warming is changing the odds of hurricanes and typhoons undergoing rapid intensification, becoming monster storms overnight. In fact, it's just going to be one of the factors that change the odds. VECCHI: I think for these specific storms and for any specific storm, we're not going to be able to say definitively that global warming was the main cause. MARTIN: Can we say definitively that this fast-changing intensity that we saw with these storms in particular, but others as well, is an effect of climate change? So how did Ian and Noru get so strong so fast? Gabriel Vecchi is a climate scientist at Princeton University, and he joins us this morning. On the other side of the world, another storm, Typhoon Noru, went from a Category 1 to a Category 5 in just 6 hours, before slamming into the Philippines. had winds that rapidly strengthened to nearly 150 miles an hour. Before making landfall in Florida, one of the strongest storms ever to hit the U.S. It flooded a fire station and tore the roof off a hospital, and it knocked out power for millions of people. Hurricane Ian trapped people with high water.
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