Higher Atlantic temperatures due to climate change intensified all eleven hurricanes this year and 84% of hurricanes between 2019 and 2023, according to a recent study by the US NGO Climate Central. On average, the wind speed of the storms was around 29 km/h faster than without climate change. The storms were also categorized on average one category higher on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale, which is used to measure the intensity of hurricanes.