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Climate change goosed hurricane wind strength by 18 mph since 2019, study says

FILE - A pelican takes off, seen through the destroyed house that Osvaldo Cruz, who lives next door, was planning to turn into a rental property, in Grove City, Fla., following the passage of Hurricane Milton, Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

FILE - A pelican takes off, seen through the destroyed house that Osvaldo Cruz, who lives next door, was planning to turn into a rental property, in Grove City, Fla., following the passage of Hurricane Milton, Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

FILE - Siblings Saboria, 4, left, and Messiah Tyler, 3, nap in the backseat of a car after the roof was torn off the home where they lived with their mom, grandparents, an aunt and an uncle during the passage of Hurricane Milton, in Palmetto, Fla., Oct. 10, 2024. The family of seven rode out the storm in a government shelter, and returned home to find most of the roof gone and their furniture and belongings destroyed by rainwater. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

FILE - Siblings Saboria, 4, left, and Messiah Tyler, 3, nap in the backseat of a car after the roof was torn off the home where they lived with their mom, grandparents, an aunt and an uncle during the passage of Hurricane Milton, in Palmetto, Fla., Oct. 10, 2024. The family of seven rode out the storm in a government shelter, and returned home to find most of the roof gone and their furniture and belongings destroyed by rainwater. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

FILE - A woman carries a child as she wades through a street flooded in the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

FILE - A woman carries a child as she wades through a street flooded in the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)