Hurricane Sally made landfall this morning near Gulf Shores, Alabama. The storm is causing power outages, dropping trees and flooding homes. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: [ Ссылка ]
Hurricane Sally stalled over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall early Wednesday, bringing heavy rain to coastal communities in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
The storm's incredibly slow pace, which at times was just 3 miles per hour, and its stalling over the Gulf represent a climate change effect that's triggered more destructive and frequent storms. Slower storms unleash more rain and long-lasting winds. As of Wednesday morning, Sally was heading northeast at about 5 mph.
Sally comes as the West Coast battles historic wildfires made worse by human-caused climate change. The blazes have wiped out entire communities in Oregon and Washington state, decimated a record number of acres in California and caused some of the globe's worst air quality.
The speed of tropical storms making landfall has slowed during the last several decades. The lingering creates worse rainfall and flooding. North Atlantic hurricanes specifically have been moving slower and stalling more frequently over the past seven decades, according to research by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Other research suggests that warming in the Arctic has weakened atmospheric circulation, which is likely affecting hurricane speed by causing a slowing of the jet stream.
"Our own work suggests that climate change is favoring precisely such jet stream behavior," said Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State and an author of the report.
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