Citizens in the south United States are heavily affected by increased hurricanes due to climate change and global warming.

In the southeast quadrant of the United States, there have been countless hurricanes. The most recent being Helene and Milton. As temperatures start to warm up throughout the year due to climate change, experts are expecting stronger winds, record-breaking rainfall, and larger storm surges. All of these factors are what is causing hurricanes to become more and more frequent. 

Experts are saying that the most catastrophic hurricanes are three times more frequent than they were one hundred years ago. Warmer oceans cause these huge storms. When it is warmer that means evaporation is more intense and that means when the storm is traveling towards land it pulls in more water vapor and heat. 

Another key factor to these worsening storms is the sea level rising and creating larger storm surges. Storm surges happen when the water rises above normal levels and is being forced inland. Sea levels have been rising due to human-caused global warming because ice is melting and warmer waters are expanding. This has caused sea levels to rise over half a foot since 1990. 

Because of these warmer temperatures, the storms can strengthen faster and grow bigger in much less time. How fast hurricanes intensify has increased incredibly since 1980 when global warming started becoming a bigger issue. Once hurricanes reach land, they tend to slow down a great amount creating more time to damage the area that it hits.

Technology models have been predicting that this increase in larger hurricanes and storm surges will not be going down anytime soon. With that being said, the amount of damage will continue to rise and the homes of millions of people will be destroyed leaving them with nothing.