{"677453":{"#nid":"677453","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Hurricane Milton: NASA Reveals What Fueled Storm\u0027s Rapid Intensification","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENASA images of Hurricane Milton, showing unusually high sea surface temperatures, highlight how climate conditions can accelerate hurricane intensification. The Gulf of Mexico\u2019s waters, particularly those above 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit, played a key role in the rapid development of Milton into a Category 5 storm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Numerical models in the past five years or so have improved to resolve hurricanes and typhoons at global scales and they do agree that the intensification of hurricanes - more hurricanes of strength 4 or 5 - and typhoons, and a tendency for depression to turn more easily into hurricanes is the result of climate change,\u0022 says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/annalisa-bracco\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERelated Coverage: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/xcmag.com\/fly-better\/weather\/hurricanes-what-is-rapid-intensification\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECross Country\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENASA images of Hurricane Milton, showing unusually high sea surface temperatures, highlight how climate conditions can accelerate hurricane intensification. The Gulf of Mexico\u2019s waters, particularly those above 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit, played a key role in the rapid development of Milton into a Category 5 storm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Numerical models in the past five years or so have improved to resolve hurricanes and typhoons at global scales and they do agree that the intensification of hurricanes - more hurricanes of strength 4 or 5 - and typhoons, and a tendency for depression to turn more easily into hurricanes is the result of climate change,\u0022 says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/annalisa-bracco\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERelated Coverage: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/xcmag.com\/fly-better\/weather\/hurricanes-what-is-rapid-intensification\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECross Country\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-10 18:49:49","changed_gmt":"2024-10-15 13:34:39","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Newsweek","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hurricane-milton-category-5-intensification-nasa-images-1966335","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"171968","name":"Annalisa Bracco"},{"id":"194000","name":"Hurricane Milton"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}