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Climate change intensified deadly Hurricane Helene: Report

Vehicles mangled by Hurricane Helene in Old Fort, North Carolina [File: Melissa Sue Gerrits /Getty Images via AFP]

Climate change intensified Hurricane Helene, which late last month killed at least 230 people and devastated large swaths of the southeastern United States, according to researchers.

The warming climate increased Helene’s wind speeds and rainfall, and made the high sea temperatures that fuelled the storm up to 500 times more likely, the World Weather Attribution said in a report released on Wednesday.

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