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October 16, 2017

Ireland: Remnants of Hurricane Ophelia Make Landfall
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In Ireland, the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia made landfall Monday as a
post-tropical cyclone, bringing gusts of more than 100 miles per hour
and knocking out power to tens of thousands of people. Ophelia made
history by becoming a Category 3 hurricane farther east than any other
storm in recorded history, fueled by much warmer than usual ocean
surface temperatures. A 2013 study in Geophysical Research Letters
predicts that human-fueled climate change will fuel more hurricanes that
can survive long enough to make landfall in Europe.


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