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Here’s how climate change is fueling Hurricane Florence

A novel forecast looks at the size and fury of the storm with and without human-caused warming

Hurricane Florence from ISS

FLORENCE’S FURY  Hurricane Florence, as seen from the International Space Station on September 12, was so big two days before it was expected to roar ashore along the North Carolina coast that astronauts 400 kilometers above the storm had to use a super wide-angle lens to capture all of it.

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By Carolyn Gramling

- More than 2 years ago

Even as Hurricane Florence bears down on the Carolinas, bringing fierce winds and heavy rains, one team of scientists has undertaken a different kind of forecast: Understanding the influence of human-caused climate change on a storm that hasn’t made landfall yet.