Media warned about an impending catastrophe in the USA

Global warming is turning storms in the US into real natural disasters, reports CNN, citing the results of a new study. Scientists conducted a large-scale analysis of northeastern storms for the period from 1940 to 2025, and the data obtained raises serious concerns.

Using modern cyclone tracking algorithms, researchers studied 900 storm events and identified an alarming trend: the maximum wind speed in the most intense storms increased by 6%. Climatologist Michael Mann from the University of Pennsylvania emphasizes that this leads to an increase in the destructive power of the elements by a whole 20%.

There has also been a 10% increase in precipitation, which significantly increases the likelihood of catastrophic floods - their devastating consequences are already being observed in many regions of the country.

Researchers are sounding the alarm: in the foreseeable future, the United States may be hit by a new "storm of the century." The last such catastrophic event occurred in March 1993, when wind speeds reached a colossal 100 miles per hour (about 45 m/s), and 200 people fell victim to the disaster.