The risk of two hurricanes hitting within two weeks of each other on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts will rise significantly over the next 80 years, a new climate modeling study finds.
Not only do successive storms stretch resources for rescue and recovery, they can also have compounding effects. For example, says Dazhi Xi, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering at Princeton Univ., the effect of the Category 1 hurricane Nicholas in 2021 was magnified by the fact that the hurricane made landfall along the Gulf Coast just thirteen days after the Category 4 storm Ida. Ida left soils in southeast Texas and Louisiana saturated, so the rain dumped by Nicholas caused more flooding than it would have otherwise...
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