Waves crash underneath the Oceanana Pier as the outer bands of Hurricane Florence reach the coast in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina on Sept. 13, 2018. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
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Mexico, the United States and Caribbean countries are being pummeled by hurricane waves that have increased in size by 80 percent over the past four decades, according to a first-of-its-kind global trend study led by China’s Hohai University.
The researchers looked at long-term differences in the surface area and height of tropical cyclone waves on the ocean’s surface globally since 1979, a press release from the University of Reading said.
The research team discovered that the…
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