Why hurricanes are retaining power after they strike land

When hurricanes strike land, they're supposed to quickly lose steam. But as the oceans relentlessly warm and feed these storms more fuel, hurricanes are retaining intensity as they travel inland. 

As atmospheric scientists put it, the storms aren't "decaying" as quickly, which threatens inland areas with more destructive winds and rainfall. New research published Wednesday in the journal Nature analyzed landfalling Atlantic hurricanes between 1967 to 2018, and found as ocean temperatures rose, hurricane decayed more slowly. A powerful hurricane in the 1960s would retain about 25 percent of its intensity a day after hitting land. But today, that number has doubled to nearly 50 percent. Read more...

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