Zombie storms are rising from the dead thanks to climate change
By Yasemin Saplakoglu - Staff Writer 43 minutes ago
2020 presents to you... "zombie storms."
Post tropical storm Paulette captured on Sept. 23. after it returned from the
dead.
(Image: © NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East Band 13)
Wildfires are burning the West Coast, hurricanes are flooding the Southeast — and some of those storms are rising from the dead.
"Zombie storms," which regain strength after initially petering out, are the newest addition to the year 2020. And these undead weather anomalies are becoming more common thanks to climate change.
"Because 2020, we now have Zombie Tropical Storms. Welcome back to the land of the living, Tropical Storm #Paulette," the National Weather Service wrote on Twitter on Tuesday (Sept. 22).
Earlier this month, Tropical storm Paulette formed in the Atlantic Ocean and made landfall in Bermuda as a Category 1 hurricane, according to CNN. It then strengthened over land into a Category 2 hurricane, before weakening and dying off five and half days later.
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