Increasing weather extremes are producing a larger human and economic toll. And a lot of dying canaries in coalmines.
No major hurricane on record had struck before August on the Pacific coast of Mexico until Erick did so on this mid-June Thursday as a category 3, after peaking as a 145 mile-per-hour (mph) category 4 monster.
Admittedly, the historical registry of tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific is short, dating back to 1949. But those archives include 1,250 tropical cyclones, putting Erick firmly into “unprecedented” territory.
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