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Tag: irma

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Tags: extreme weather, extreme weather events, harvey, hurricanes, irma
September 12th, 2017|Rebecca Fowler

Could Climate Change Breed a Whole New Category of Hurricane?

Hoaxes have been calling Irma a Category 6 hurricane, but there’s no such thing. Could there be, in the future?

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