Helene's force shocks

STUDY: CLIMATE CHANGE EXACERBATES HURRICANE'S DESTRUCTIVE POWER

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Carl Schreck spent his career studying tropical storms thousands of miles away from home. But when hurricane Helene hit the American climate scientist's hometown in North Carolina and flooded several of his friends' homes, the shocking experience made him rethink his research priorities.

“I know how devastating the rainfall in hurricanes can be, but to actually know people that are affected by it, it's really heartbreaking to see,” Schreck said from his home near Asheville, the epicenter of the disaster that ravaged the southeastern United States.

As another major hurricane, Milton, was barrelling toward Florida, a study released yesterday by the respected World Weather Attribution concluded that Helene's destructive force was exacerbated by climate change.