Has it felt like topical storms are forming earlier and earlier in the Atlantic Basin? Climate researchers dug into the data and found that systems have indeed tended to form a few days earlier each decade since the 1970s!
Authors Ryan E. Truchelut, Philip J. Klotzbach, Erica M. Staehling, Kimberly M. Wood, Daniel J. Halperin, Carl J. Schreck III & Eric S. Blake found the trend is observable even when accounting for contemporary instruments’ ability to identify more short-lived storms. They attributed the shift primarily to warming ocean temperatures.
Read their full article in the Journal Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31821-3
RESEARCHERS FIND STORM FORMATION HAS CREPT EARLIER SINCE 1979
