{"id":24243,"date":"2022-06-28T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24243"},"modified":"2022-06-28T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T02:00:23","slug":"hurricane-numbers-are-decreasing-in-every-ocean-basin-except-for-one-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/06\/hurricane-numbers-are-decreasing-in-every-ocean-basin-except-for-one-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane numbers are decreasing in every ocean basin except for one, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent study,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-022-01414-5\" target=\"_blank\">published in the journal Nature Climate Change<\/a>, found that the annual number of global hurricanes, typhoons and tropical storms \u2014 or tropical cyclones, more generally \u2014 declined by roughly 13% as the planet warmed during the 20th century. But one ocean basin had an increase in storms&#8211;the North Atlantic, which is the source area for storms that hit the Southeast. The scientists who did the study said that this only related to the number of storms, not their intensity, and noted that recent storms have been more intense and had more rainfall as they made landfall more slowly. You can read more about the study at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/27\/weather\/tropical-cyclone-frequency-21st-century-climate\/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1oDAbLlddfCGQZtkjEp25Sd8TdoAabpPcy7fkrbSmZPcFMk9_W1dNrdfI\">CNN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/Hurricane_Matthew_Terra_MODIS_True_Color_Image_20161007_10am_EDT-775x554.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/Hurricane_Matthew_Terra_MODIS_True_Color_Image_20161007_10am_EDT-775x554.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/Hurricane_Matthew_Terra_MODIS_True_Color_Image_20161007_10am_EDT-775x554.png 775w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/Hurricane_Matthew_Terra_MODIS_True_Color_Image_20161007_10am_EDT-775x554-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/Hurricane_Matthew_Terra_MODIS_True_Color_Image_20161007_10am_EDT-775x554-768x549.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/Hurricane_Matthew_Terra_MODIS_True_Color_Image_20161007_10am_EDT-775x554-193x138.png 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Terra MODIS image of Hurricane Matthew from Oct. 7, 2016. SPACE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CENTER (SSEC), UW\u2013MADISON <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study,\u00a0published in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that the annual number of global hurricanes, typhoons and tropical storms \u2014 or tropical cyclones, more generally \u2014 declined by roughly 13% as the planet warmed during the 20th century. But one ocean basin had an increase in storms&#8211;the North Atlantic, which is the source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":11041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24244,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24243\/revisions\/24244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}