26. Aug, 2011
…very warm ocean temperatures in the vicinity of coastal North Carolina always provide the possibility for the storm to increase slightly in strength before landfall in the vicinity of the Outer Banks.
The source article Category 2 Hurricane Irene Approaches the Outer Banks was published August 26, 2011 by NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory .
Tags: eastern seaboard, hurricanes, Irene, North Carolina, USA
Many events are linked to climate change by virtue of fitting a long-term trend. For example, the record-breaking “once in one thousand years” rains that drove the recent Nashville flood is part of the long-term trend of increasing heavy precipitation events in the Southeastern United States that has been fully documented and firmly attributed to climate change. While one cannot say with certainly that event was "caused" by climate change, one can and should say it is linked to climate change.
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