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Jeff Berardelli@weatherprof.bsky.social |
As communication, awareness and response have improved, the former leading cause of direct deaths in hurricanes - storm surge - has decreased. Now rain flooding is blamed for the lion share. But only ~50% of tropical cyclone deaths are direct. Many come after the storm.
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And the main cause of death for 2024-2025 hurricanes will probably be the collapse of the global food supply system, as many agricultural areas will be flooded by extreme rain from hurricanes in places that never used to experience hurricanes
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