Not exact matches
Hurricane season begins in May and lasts through November,
producing dozens of powerful
hurricanes.
So he sexes up his narrative by presenting it as a battle between the «short, professorial looking» Emanuel, a «nuanced and sophisticated» man who talks in complete sentences, and the obdurate William Gray of Colorado State University, «a towering figure of American
hurricane science,» who has for many years
produced remarkably accurate forecasts of the upcoming Atlantic
hurricane season and who repeatedly and loudly denies — in congressional hearings and everywhere else — that humans have any role in climate change.
«Historically, this combination of climate factors
produces an active
hurricane season about 70 % of the time.
Similar patterns also
produced stronger
hurricane seasons during the 1950s and 1960s.
Although superstorms like Katrina, Harvey and Irma seem to be increasing as the earth's temperatures rise, at least the
hurricane season is limited to three months out of the year, and thankfully not every year
produces a storm of these magnitudes.
The warmpth in the southern USA and elsewhere north of the
hurricane -
producing region has been as large a factor in the large number of storms this
season as the actual SST where the storms are formed, because it has decreased wind shear.
Note to reporters: a scientist's willingness to make predictions of the future is an indication of the current level of understanding of the science; for example Hansen et al predicted that Pinatubo's eruption in 1991 would
produce a significant aerosol cooling effect, and they were right; but would anyone be willing to predict that La Nina (assuming conditions set in) will result in a record
hurricane season this fall?
The
hurricane season that just ended — or, rather, was supposed to have just ended — at the end of November
produced 14 tropical storms, six of which became
hurricanes.
Nearly one year after
Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast, the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season has not produced a single land - falling hurricane in the U.S. Instead of having above - average storm activity, as the seasonal hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its in
Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast, the 2013 Atlantic
Hurricane Season has not produced a single land - falling hurricane in the U.S. Instead of having above - average storm activity, as the seasonal hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its in
Hurricane Season has not produced a single land - falling hurricane in the U.S. Instead of having above - average storm activity, as the seasonal hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its inact
Season has not
produced a single land - falling
hurricane in the U.S. Instead of having above - average storm activity, as the seasonal hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its in
hurricane in the U.S. Instead of having above - average storm activity, as the seasonal
hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its in
hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the
season has been quiet — notable for its inact
season has been quiet — notable for its inactivity.
In recent years, especially after the movie, An Inconvenient Truth, it has been popular to predict that upcoming
hurricane seasons would
produce more and bigger storms.
But in the end, the
season produced only seven
hurricanes, and none made landfall as a
hurricane along the US and Canadian coasts.
«Evidence of this active cycle was demonstrated this year as the Atlantic Basin
produced the equivalent of more than two entire
hurricane seasons over the course of one,» David L. Johnson, director of the National Weather Service.
However, this shouldn't compensate for the absence of
hurricanes during a given
season since
hurricanes will
produce heat exchange at a much greater scale.
Now one of the points made earlier by Gavin was that the ocean is able to retain heat, and thus if a given
season fails to
produce hurricanes one
season, then the next
season that there is less windshear should see more powerful
hurricanes due to the increased heat reserve.