Climate change made the recent floods in the middle west, south of intensive, reported report

The fatal storms that went through eight US states at the beginning of April and at least kill 24 peoplewere by significantly aggravated by Climate changeAccording to a study published this week.

The analysis of World Weather Attribution, a group of climate science, found that the global warming caused by humans made it record -breaking rains About 9% heavier. The mighty storms destroyed Houses, streets and arable land.

From April 3 to April 6th, the storms swept in the middle west and in the south and dumping quantities in Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and other states. The study showed that the four days of rainfall the most difficult to ever recorded for the region. The intensity of the storm was partly driven by unusually warm sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, which, due to climate change, was about 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than the study stated.

According to the WWA analysis, the storms made it 14 times more likely.

The researchers said that strong forecasts and early warnings are likely to reduce the scope of the damage, but take care of the effects of ongoing lack of personnel in the national weather service.

Many of his branch offices are tense, and almost half of these offices with vacancies over 20%and 30 offices without a senior meteorologist who, according to one of the authors of the report, Bernadette Woods-Placky, chief meteorologist of the non-profit news Group Climate Central.

These offices are responsible for the exhibition of real -time warnings and the coordination with emergency management to protect the communities.

The burden on the insurance markets also becomes clear, since climate change more frequently and storm promotes. Homeowners in high -risk areas already see Your insurance costs Get strongly when companies adapt to the growing risk.

“We estimate that the top 20% of the most risky postcodes rose on average from 2020 to 2024 $ 1,100,” said Ben Keys, professor of real estate and finance at the Wharmon School at the University of Pennsylvania, with a call with reporters.

Without A quick shift of fossil fuelsExtreme weather is expected to become even more frequently and more intensely, said researchers.

According to the study, when the global warming reaches 2.6 degrees Celsius (4.7 degrees Fahrenheit)-researchers with the world’s expected weating attributions by 2100 under current guidelines-four-day precipitation events such as the 7% more intensive and twice as likely at the beginning of April.

“It is really a moment to understand for us what this does not only mean now, but for the future,” said co-author Shel Winkley, a specialist for weather and climate engagements at Climate Central. “What does this mean for these areas that see events together? What does that mean how we build, or where we rebuild or when we rebuild? Will this be a place that is worth living in the future? And if it is so, how can we ensure that it is worth living and safe?”