A reminder that storms are thermodynamic heat engines. They use temperature difference to generate “work” (ie wind and motion). So hot seas amplify their intensity.
“[Researchers] find that…storms that pass through a marine heatwave during their rapid intensification cause 93% higher economic damages than storms that do not.”
https://www.carbonbrief.org/marine-heatwaves-nearly-double-the-economic-damage-caused-by-tropical-cyclones/
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