The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has already made history, but climate driven storm intensity is making it even more dangerous.

Deadly Hurricane Helene, wildfires in the Amazon, an extreme monsoon downpour in India, a heat wave during the Summer Olympics, and other dangerous and devastating weather events in 2024 were all made more likely and damaging by climate change, scientists have found.

Human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the heavy rainfall that caused floods killing 24 people in Central Europe earlier this month, a new flash study found.

Weather attribution science uses real-world data and models to establish if and how climate change influences the intensity and likelihood of a specific event.

A preliminary analysis from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab suggested rain totals in the western Carolinas were about 10 percent heavier due to the warmer climate and 50 percent heavier in western Georgia and central North Carolina. This will be the first of numerous analyses reviewing the storm to determine the climate change role.

Scientists say human-caused climate change boosted the rainfall of deadly Hurricane Helene by about 10% and intensified its winds by about 11%

Researchers found that Hurricane Helene was stronger, rainier, and significantly more likely because of climate change. The U.S. can expect more such storms in the future as warming continues.

Hurricane Helene's torrential rain and powerful winds were made about 10 percent more intense due to climate change, according to a study published Wednesday by the World Weather Attribution (WWA)

But when Hurricane Helene hit the American climate scientist's hometown in North Carolina and flooded several of his friends' homes, the shocking experience made him rethink his research priorities.

World Weather Attribution calculated that human-caused climate change boosted the rainfall of Helene by about 10% and intensified its winds by about 11%.