Hurricane Dorian—shown here in an image created by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on September 1, 2019—intensified rapidly into a Category 5 storm that devastated portions of the Bahamas.
An analysis from NOAA NCEI scientists and colleagues indicates that tropical cyclones are growing more powerful more quickly—and causing heavy damage
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