Sentences with phrase «average storm numbers»

This year, forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are expecting to see above - average storm numbers in the Atlantic, despite the uncertainty of whether an El Niño will develop over the summer.

So given the signals that forecasters have to work with, they expect a 45 percent chance of above - average storm numbers, a 35 percent chance of near - normal, and only a 20 percent chance of below - normal activity.

Not exact matches

Instead they predict, on average, whether there might be 10 storms per winter in the future, or a certain number of additional hot days in the summer.

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.

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.»

It turned out to be an average year for the number of storms.

[Response: In fact, 2006 was slightly above average w / 10 total named storms, and substantially above average for an El Nino year (for which the typical number of named storms is closer to 7).

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.

Take an average number of storms (6) in a given year, with, say an average of 50 million dollars in damage.

-- Tropical cyclones near average overall / Historic Super Typhoon: The number of tropical cyclones during 2013 was slightly above average, with a total of 94 storms, in comparison to the 1981 - 2010 average of 89.

HOWEVER, the number of tropical cyclones with intensity greater than 34 - knots has remained at the 30 - year average (83 storms per year).

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 %.

«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.»

The team then compared the oxygen isotope ratio for each year's wet season from 1990 to 2010 with a cyclone activity index of the average accumulated energy expended, based on factors such as number of cyclones, cyclone strength, size and time on storm track.

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

One of the points Ross and Chris made in Taken by Storm is that there is an infinite number of possible global averages (in fact, even in a small space, such as a single classroom, an infinite number of possibilities exists).

Instead of using 120 years of history to calculate the average number of storms each year, RMS used the scientists» work as the basis for a new crystal ball, a computer model that would estimate storms for the next five years.

During El Nino years, that number dropped to an average of 2.47 storms.

Key findings from these experiments include: fewer tropical cyclones globally in a warmer late - twenty - first - century climate (Figure 8), but also an increase in average cyclone intensity, the number and occurrence days of very intense category 4 and 5 storms in most basins (Figure 9) and in tropical cyclone precipitation rates (Figure 10).

Graphic showing that we've been in an active period of tropical cyclone activity since 1995, where the average number of named tropical storms has jumped significantly to 15.2 per year.

For example, just having an above - average number of storms will by itself raise the odds of a landfalling storm.

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.