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Record temperatures, driven by climate change, help to fuel Hurricane Beryl - WUFT

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Record temperatures, driven by climate change, help to fuel Hurricane Beryl

Hurricane Beryl is an unusually strong storm for this time of year and it gained strength unusually fast. That's in part because of record high ocean temperatures driven by climate change.

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