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Could Hurricane Patricia be a harbinger of storms in a warming climate?

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imageHurricane Patricia as it made landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico.NASA/NOAA, CC BY-SA

Hurricane Patricia drew immediate attention by intensifying from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in a single day. It soon developed the fastest winds ever recorded in a western hemisphere storm. Meteorologists and climate scientists have already...

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