The increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes are driven by a feedback loop involving record-high ocean temperatures and their interactions with atmospheric conditions.

“The more energy you have in the ocean, the more likely you are to accelerate wind forces in storms. And that's why you get these massive hurricanes that suddenly form seemingly overnight and go like in the case of Helene, that hurricane went from a cat two to a cat four or a cat five in like 48 hour”