Hurricane Helene's Deadly Impact

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Hurricane Helene

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Hurricanes: Unprecedented extremes or the new normal?

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Hurricane Helene was one of the deadliest U.S. hurricanes of the last 50 years , second only to Hurricane Katrina .

Tufts climate risk expert Erin Coughlan de Perez helps explain how climate change is affecting the severity of hurricanes like Helene .

The WWA report found that hurricanes are now 2.5 times more likely and expected to occur once every 53 years .

Hurricane Milton was the third -fastest intensifying storm on record in the Atlantic .

Heat waves are the leading cause of death from climate-related disasters in the U.S. The WWA report found that, in the 88 counties that declared disasters after Helene , 30% of people are below 150% of the federal poverty level.

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