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Forecasted attribution of the human influence on Hurricane Florence
- Finds that extreme rainfall during Florence was increased by up to 10 percent, and the fraction of rainfall accumulations of more than 30 inches was increased by more than 7 percent of what it would have been without climate change
- Finds that Hurricane Florence was 9 km larger in mean maximum diameter (or a 1.6% increase in storm area) due to climate change
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