Sentences with phrase «average number of hurricanes»

Today, the average number of hurricanes each year is double that of the first decade of the 20th century.

Hurricane season officially kicks off June 1, and forecasters expect the Atlantic Ocean will spawn a near - average number of hurricanes in 2016

Not exact matches

In the Bay of Biscay, the model predicts the average number of yearly hurricanes will increase from one to six (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/kv2).

The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be quieter than normal, with a below - average number of storms and hurricanes, a leading U.S. hurricane forecasting team said last week.

However, numbers of hurricanes in the North Atlantic have also been above normal (based on 1981 — 2000 averages) in 9 of the last 11 years, culminating in the record - breaking 2005 season.

In addition to the rise in major hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, the average number of named hurricanes each year has increased to about seven storms from five storms, though the exact reasons for this rise are still the subject of research.

The 1981 - 2010 average number of named storms in the East Pacific is 16.5, with 8.9 hurricanes, and 4.3 major hurricanes.

There are still almost three months to go in the hurricane season, and there have already been an above - average number of named storms.»

In fact, the three states with the highest average condo insurance cost all rank as some of the states with the greatest number of hurricane strikes.

I remember headlines many weeks back saying simply we're headed for an above - average number of Atlantic hurricanes, which seems to be the standard, annual forecast.

Let me restate his point: there is no evidence yet of an impact of global warming on the intensity of the average hurricane, on the regions where the tropical storms form and on the number of tropical storms.

As I summarize in the book: «global warming, which ought to intensify the average hurricane, could also change the regions of storm formation or the numbers of storms that form in the first place.

The average number of U.S. landfalling hurricanes since 1851 is 1.69.

By 2100 the number of hurricanes could drop by up to a third, but the average intensity of the storm could increase by as much as 11 %.

I'll bet $ 10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years.

«These numbers are well above the long - term averages of 4.4 storms and 2.1 hurricanes that would normally have formed by this date.»

This year in the US the number of tornadoes has been way below average, the amount of hurricane damage was way below average, and the number of forest fires has been way below average.

Worldwide there will likely be an average increase in the maximum wind speed of tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons) of 2 to 11 %.6 Because of the way extremes respond to changes such as these, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes are expected to nearly double in number by the end of the century.7 The rate of rainfall associated with tropical cyclones, an important factor in flooding, is expected to increase approximately 20 % within 100 km of the center of these storms.8

Not only is there more property and infrastructure to damage, but the average amount of personal belongings has also increased, i.e., the number of cars, TVs, and other items which can be damaged by hurricanes is much greater now than it would have been in the early 20th century.

When Pielke et al., 2008 «normalized» the reported damages for the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane to account for the increases in population, numbers of housing units and average wealth per person, they calculated that it would probably have cost about $ 150 billion damage if it struck in 2005.

By late this century, models on average project a slight decrease in the number of tropical cyclones each year, but an increase in the number of the strongest (Category 4 and 5) hurricanes and greater rainfall rates in hurricanes (increases of about 20 percent averaged near the center of hurricanes).

«When you average over the long - term, there is a clear link between the number of hurricanes that form at sea and those that hit US,» he told New Scientist.

The average number of named storms per year is just under 12, according to the Atlantic Hurricane Database information provided by NOAA.

Because this city has experienced a higher - than - average number of natural disasters (storms, blizzards and even hurricanes), business property insurance rates may be higher than in other cities.