2021 may have been the year the world finally began to pay attention to climate change.
The behavior of, according to scientists. The dangerous storm barreled through the Caribbean before taking aim at the Gulf Coast of the U.S. In the 24 hours before making landfall in Louisiana on Aug. 29, it strengthened by a whopping 55 mph, making it a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of up to 150 mph.
But the damage did not stop as the remnants of Ida left the South. As the system collided with a cold front, it dumped torrential rain and spawned tornadoes and devastating flash floodingdays after it left Louisiana. As much as 5 inches of rain per hour were reported in highly urbanized areas in New York and New Jersey. Roadways in parts of New York City transformed into rivers, killing dozens of people living in basement apartments.
"A 500-year storm, in terms of flooding impacts, is going to become like a 100-year storm, because the ocean is so much higher," Schofield said."It doesn't take as much to put push the ocean onto the shore."The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world The period between October and December 2020 was the warmest Arctic autumn on record, dating back to 1900, according to the report.Icebergs and melting pack ice in Ilulissat icefjord, Greenland.
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