Al Jazeera: Climate experts said Monday that ocean temperatures played a key role in strengthening Cyclone Winston, which slammed into Fiji on Saturday night with 200-mph winds, killing at least 29 people and flattening villages.
The warmer the sea-surface temperature, the stronger a tropical cyclone can get, Bob Henson, a meteorologist and climate blogger at Weather Underground, told Al Jazeera in an email.
Sea-surface temperatures have been especially warm this year across much of the tropical Pacific,...