Could a big hurricane whack New England? ‘More of a question of when than if.’
Could a big hurricane whack New England? ‘More of a question of when than if.’
When Hurricane Helene blasted through western North Carolina in late September, devastating a region normally immune to severe damage from hurricanes, it woke up a wide swath of the country to a hard fact: We’re not as safe as we think.
That’s true in New England, too.
The nature of hurricanes has shifted as the planet warms due to climate change, with bigger, wetter, and stronger storms — something we’ve now seen happen twice in rapid succession, with Hurricane Milton following Helene.
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