Scientists say extreme storms will be "new normal," U.N. chief warns

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is heading to the hurricane-battered Caribbean, where he said Wednesday that scientists predict the extreme storms during this year's Atlantic hurricane season "will be the new normal of a warming world." The U.N. chief told reporters that Hurricane Irma, which devastated Barbuda, was a Category 5 storm for three consecutive days -- "the longest on satellite record" -- and its winds that reached 300 kilometers per hour for 37 hours were "the longest on record at that intensity."

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