Heavy rain, hurricanes likely to become ‘more intense’ with warming
Updated: 10:35 a.m. ET March 20, 2007
MADRID, Spain – Global warming is likely to bring more tidal waves, floods and hurricanes, leading meteorologists said on Monday.
“What we know is that global warming is very likely to lead in the future to more frequent tidal waves,” the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) told a news conference ahead of a meeting in Madrid on Monday.
“Heavy precipitation events are very likely to become more frequent … and it’s likely that hurricanes and cyclones will become more intense,” Michel Jarraud said.
