Hurricanes may not be becoming more frequent, but they’re still more dangerous
There aren’t more of the storms now than there were roughly 150 years ago, a study suggests
Hurricane Iota raged toward Central America on November 16, 2020, as a Category 5 storm — the 30th named storm in a record-breaking season. Iota’s rapid intensification may be linked to global warming, but a 150-year record of Atlantic hurricanes suggests no long-term trend in storm frequency.