"Higher seas make the storm-surge impact higher.
This can reduce or delay rainfall, two teams report in the 27 February issue of Science, and it can make the storms that do occur more violent.
The drifts, sometimes reaching four feet high, were what made the storm particularly treacherous and inconvenient.
What made the storm brutal wasn't just the snow it dropped, from Alabama and Georgia all the way to Nova Scotia.
We joked that, to those outside of the state, the news always made the storm seem worse than it was.
Again, climate change can't be said to have caused Harvey, but it unquestionably made the storm more destructive.
That tornado may have had winds as strong as 160 m.p.h., making the storm a Level 4 on the tornado scale.
Some experts also say the utilities cannot be faulted for some of the problems that made the storm particularly destructive and that have complicated the cleanup.
That made the storm, situated about 390 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica's capital, a Category 5, capable of catastrophic damage.
