With Hurricane Helene wreaking havoc and causing misery for millions, a new book warns that such terrifying storms are only the beginning.

Warming seas will bring ‘near-​constant natural disaster to North America’ in coming decades and into the next century, according to its author — a journalist and lifetime sailor who spoke to oceanographers, meteorologists and disaster relief crews.

But the data speaks for itself: weather-related natural disasters now plague Earth at five-times the frequency that such ‘freak storms’ once did back in the 1970s…

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