(CNN) In the coming years, New York City might look less like a concrete jungle and more like a concrete swamp. "We know that storm surge flooding tends to be the deadliest aspect of many tropical cyclones," said Andra Garner, a climate researcher at Rutgers University and lead author of the study. Garner and her colleagues pointed in their study to Hurricane Sandy , which spawned devastating floods in New York City in 2012, as an example of extreme weather events the city could face. In the new study, even though the climate models showed more frequent flooding, they also projected that tropical cyclones could shift farther east and farther out to sea, the researchers found. "The finding reveals the need for additional research into the way that future storm tracks may behave in the Atlantic basin, and it's something that we hope to look into more."

Source: CNN October 27, 2017 08:15 UTC