Links between climate change and hurricanes in the North Atlantic
Fig 1
Total number of tropical cyclones, hurricanes, major hurricanes and accumulated cyclone energy from 1950 to 2022 in the Atlantic Ocean (a). Area average sea surface temperature (SST) and total precipitable water (TPW) for August-September and October from the ERA 5 reanalysis dataset for the tropical and subtropical Atlantic for the 1950–2022 period (b), the graph shows an increasing trend in both SST and TPW during the most active months of the hurricane season.