Sentences with phrase «big hurricanes as»

He states specifically that single storms can't be attributed (correct), he talks about increasing SST fueling more intense hurricanes (reasonable), mentions a few big hurricanes as examples (fine).

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United Continental Holdings Inc. is likely to take at least a $ 265 million financial hit from Hurricane Harvey because of the carrier's reliance on Houston as one of its biggest hubs, an airline analyst said.

A big storm can escalate into a hurricane through sudden shifts in wind and pressure just as an economy can tumble into recession when a bubble bursts because of financial vulnerability.

Months after taking a shot from Hurricane Irma, Big Pine Key is again recovery mode as a large wild fire scorched acres of land.

09 / 17 / 17 - Big Pine Key, FloridaÑRyan OÕBrien walks towards his devastated home on Big Pine Key as he tries to clean up after Hurricane Irma hit the Big Pine Key the area destroying most of the homes in the community.

-- candidates will get a clue and start buying Adwords with their name, but also the name of their opponents (hint: the latter won't like and will take it out on Google)-- everytime there'll be big news (hurricane, breaking news, Paris Hilton's latest...) which tends to draw lots of eyeballs to Google, expect the whatever - happened - today keyword to point to the page of a candidate's site with his / her position on the topic du jour — opponents will urge their supporters to engage in whack - an - adword games (also known as click fraud) to cost as much money per click as possible to the other campaign and drive up cost of acquisition of a new visitor to the advertiser's site.

Managers of Tallahassee's Kearney Center are sheltering up to 400 Big Bend homeless residents per night and expecting 20 to 50 more as Hurricane Irma approaches.

As the five - year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy approaches, there are delays at one of the city's biggest flood protection projects.

Photo: Kevin T. Smith For some, an unwanted reminder of Hurricane Sandy that crashed into the East Coast as megastorm of the century is a big tree uprooted, lying across the yard — If lucky, missing the house.

It would then take only one big storm surge to breach the seawall, just as hurricane Katrina sent floodwaters racing past New Orleans's levees.

Now, in a new $ 62 million, 5 - year program, the network of doomsday machines is expanding to simulate hurricanes and tornadoes and is joining forces with computer modeling to study how things too big for a physical test — such as nuclear reactors or even an entire city — will weather what Mother Nature throws at them.

So, starting on February 28th, I will be debuting as the host of a new series on the Weather Channel called Hacking the Planet, and this is a series in which, each week, the format is I take a look at some kind of big natural threat, things like hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and the like, and I explore what we understand, the science of how these things work and where they came from and how they stop and then we figure out, well, how can we use this knowledge to our advantage.

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout, marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a minor Category 1 hurricane.

MIAMI (Reuters)- The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout, marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a minor Category 1 hurricane.

The largest of these smaller storms measures about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) across — twice as big as the largest hurricane recorded on Earth, NASA officials said.

Re # 26 — As we drift off course here and are talking about the weather, volcanism interaction, I have always thought it odd that Mt Pinatubo's big explosion in 1991 was in the middle of a hurricane (typhoon).

Climate models suggest that hurricane intensity should increase as the world warms, and that the most intense storms will become a bigger proportion of the total.

Higher sea levels increase the risk of big storms — such as Hurricane Sandy — that cause flooding.

When explaining the importance of this work, Wehner believes that the big impact lies in assessing the impact of climate change as exemplified by the recent painful experiences of hurricanes Harvey (tied with hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record), Irma (the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region), and Maria (regarded as the worst natural disaster on record in Dominica and Puerto Rico).

He wanted to talk about political influence and big - money funders through the lens of two reform - oriented school systems — New Orleans (suggesting that teacher layoffs could be blamed on TFA and not Hurricane Katrina) and Chicago (pointing to school closings and mayoral control, as if either of those two policies had anything to do with TFA).

The biggest rainstorm in the history of the continental United States finally began to move away from Houston on Tuesday, as the remnants of Hurricane Harvey and its endless, merciless rain bands spun east to menace Louisiana instead.

Shrimp, sea turtles, «sport fish,» teal & doves all get a break HOUSTON, Texas ---- As hard as Hurricane Harvey hit humans, pets, livestock, and some of the most vulnerable wildlife along the Gulf Coast of Texas and adjacent part of Louisiana, especially big birds who could not escape from the wind, early damage assessments indicate that -LSB-..As hard as Hurricane Harvey hit humans, pets, livestock, and some of the most vulnerable wildlife along the Gulf Coast of Texas and adjacent part of Louisiana, especially big birds who could not escape from the wind, early damage assessments indicate that -LSB-..as Hurricane Harvey hit humans, pets, livestock, and some of the most vulnerable wildlife along the Gulf Coast of Texas and adjacent part of Louisiana, especially big birds who could not escape from the wind, early damage assessments indicate that -LSB-...]

With Hurricane Harvey proving to be as big a problem for pet owners as Katrina, and Irma now leaving Florida in ruins,...

Although Miami was spared a big brunt of Hurricane Irma, mobile home residents here are not breathing a sigh of relief as they return to their now damaged or completely destroyed homes.

There are a variety of gameplay secrets and unlockables such as the ability to unlock Big Head mode by pressing up, up, down, down, left, right, left and right on the d - pad or left analogue stick followed by pressing X on the title screen, while there are a total of nine Easter eggs to collect that are hidden throughout each of the tracks which unlocks a Chicken Head player decal, alongside references including locations, characters and even posters from Vector Unit's other games such as the Beach Buggy series and even their first game Hydro Thunder Hurricane.

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I've been using hurricanes as a good measure of the maximum energy available in the atmosphere (ie if more energy is present then you get more & bigger hurricanes).

As early as 1992 my Earth Day display on GW had a big hurricane on it, with mention of GW contributing to hurricane intensity AND frequencAs early as 1992 my Earth Day display on GW had a big hurricane on it, with mention of GW contributing to hurricane intensity AND frequencas 1992 my Earth Day display on GW had a big hurricane on it, with mention of GW contributing to hurricane intensity AND frequency.

He said that is what has happened in the real world since 1980, as scientists witnessed a big rise in hurricanes» energy.

What the industry describes as extreme weather events have increased in number and severity as the global climate system has altered, causing more and bigger hurricanes, typhoons and heatwaves around the world.

As the United States cleans up after one major hurricane and braces for another, optimists note that all this destruction could yield one positive result: As we experience bigger and more powerful storms — just as the models predicted — perhaps we'll finally come to grips with climate changAs the United States cleans up after one major hurricane and braces for another, optimists note that all this destruction could yield one positive result: As we experience bigger and more powerful storms — just as the models predicted — perhaps we'll finally come to grips with climate changAs we experience bigger and more powerful storms — just as the models predicted — perhaps we'll finally come to grips with climate changas the models predicted — perhaps we'll finally come to grips with climate change.

Image Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-- National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) By WUWT Regular Just The Facts From the Insurance Journal: «The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout, marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a minor...

Faith warmers, like the pathetic grub that is aon of above, who says because big hurricanes don't hit US, people don't care - faith warmers have a particular craving for big hurricanes to continually hit the US as the country must be made to suffer.

In big thunderstorms, and especially in big hurricanes, this upper skin of clouds, releasing vast amounts of latent energy, is way, way up there, twice as high as Mount Everest.

b. Big Oil and Big Coal are not different from «Big Insurance» (e.g. «prediction» of more hurricanes as tool to increase insurance primes) and «Big Banking» (huge investments with tax money, via Government).

«During Hurricane Irene, for example, the word «threat» was used much more often within climate tweets,» the authors write, «suggesting that climate change may be perceived as a bigger threat than the hurricane itselHurricane Irene, for example, the word «threat» was used much more often within climate tweets,» the authors write, «suggesting that climate change may be perceived as a bigger threat than the hurricane itselhurricane itself.»

This page compares various big disasters such as earthquakes, pandemics, hurricanes, nuclear war and terrorist attacks.

But as waters warm, Atlantic hurricanes appear to be growing more frequent, bigger, stronger and wetter, and they also seem to be maintaining their strength farther north along the U.S. coast, according to Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at MIT.

# 207, so what I gain from your piece is that Katrina & Rita are well within «normal» & not as bad as the worst — which means to me as a Rio Grande Valley resident, I have some extraordinarily big, perhaps Cat 6 hurricanes to worry about in the future with GW enhanced hurricane intensity.

As I said at the beginning, the BAMS article shows very good evidence of a big rise in cat - 4 hurricanes in the 1970 - 2004 period.

Not that I am a big fan of economic impacts, I would suggest looking at Camille vs Katrina, or likewise hurricane landfalls as far as truer comparisons, and of indirect evidence proving Global Warming.

As for «adapting to global warming»: First, consider how little we «adapted» in the aftermath of Katrina — just as at risk as before with faulty dikes ready to collapse in the next big hurricane, and this is in OUR country and LOCALIZEAs for «adapting to global warming»: First, consider how little we «adapted» in the aftermath of Katrina — just as at risk as before with faulty dikes ready to collapse in the next big hurricane, and this is in OUR country and LOCALIZEas at risk as before with faulty dikes ready to collapse in the next big hurricane, and this is in OUR country and LOCALIZEas before with faulty dikes ready to collapse in the next big hurricane, and this is in OUR country and LOCALIZED.

Flood insurance is a big financial plus after a disaster such as a hurricane because home insurance doesn't cover flood damage.

If you live in Coral Gables, Miami, for example, you'll see only limited storm surge in a Cat - 1 Florida hurricane; but as the storm gets bigger, the potential flooding gets deeper and more widespread.

As hurricane season starts sending big storm up the coast, many people consider purchasing travel insurance.

«To touch on climate change, the ocean is warming up as a result, and warmer oceans mean bigger and stronger hurricanes since hurricanes get their energy from the warm ocean water.»

Traffic is heavy on Northlake Boulevard as people head to big box stores like Costco, Home Depot, Lowe's, and Target during preparation for hurricane Irma on September 5, 2017.

Having to close its corporate offices and New Jersey distribution center for a week as a result of the hurricane, however, has played havoc with Big M's financials.

You can make this as big as you want... or as big of a glass hurricane / cake topper / vase as you can find!