According to a study recently published in the journal Nature, the globe’s hurricanes have slowed by 10 percent in their movement across landscapes and seascapes over the past 65 years. Slower-moving storms will rain more over a given area, batter that area longer with their winds, and pile up more water ahead of them as they approach shorelines. The study points directly to the example of Hurricane Harvey, whose catastrophic rains were enabled by the storm’s lingering in the Houston area for such a long period. “Every one of the hazards that we know tropical cyclones carry with them, all of them are just going to stick around longer,” said Jim Kossin, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the study’s author. The Washington Post.