Tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfires: how scientists link extreme weather to climate change
Climate projections in the Midwest include warmer, wetter springs and drier summers with hotter nights. U.S. Department of Agriculture
The weather has been changing in ways that catch everyone’s attention. Media coverage has increasingly linked extreme weather events to climate change.
In 2024 we saw severe weather everywhere, hurricanes, tornado outbreaks and massive wildfires. Globally, there were more than 600 extreme weather events, including major floods in Europe and Asia.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences professor Stephen Nesbitt and professor in the Department of climate meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences Ryan Sriver, talk about how scientists link severe weather events to climate change and what it means to say climate change influenced a storm.
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