They send them out across the Atlantic Ocean to fly above imminent storms forming out around like the Canary Islands, so that they can really start to get a sense of how
do hurricanes form and how do they get launched into the trajectories that they follow.
How
does a hurricane form?
Not exact matches
While most funding decisions would be left to make, the cap deal
does provide some actual funding in the
form of
hurricane recovery dollars, which aren't subject to the caps.
So no, they
did not
form in the same area --[and] those conducive conditions needed for
hurricanes are not [found] throughout the Atlantic.
Although every day of the year, somewhere on this planet, it is
hurricane season, only when a set of unique conditions come together
do hurricanes actually
form.
«There likely will be little traces of the hydrocarbons in the water that is condensed to
form rain, but it will likely make up less than normal pollution
does,» says research meteorologist Frank Marks, director of
hurricane research at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Fla. «The amount of water vapor evaporated that might contain hydrocarbons related to the spill will be very, very small.»
But the agency has predicted an above average
hurricane season, and that may still hold — most storms
form in the second half of the
hurricane season, Bell says, which doesn't end until 30 November.
One of the few Atlantic
hurricanes that
formed this year, Fred,
did so further east than any other on record and provided the Cape Verde islands off Africa with their very first
hurricane warming.
Though this is still a subject of active scientific research, current computer models of the atmosphere indicate that
hurricanes are more likely to become less frequent on a global basis, though the
hurricanes that
do form may be more intense.
I'm not sure that I know enough about Cal Dive's business yet to
form an opinion regarding the investment case but one thought
did occur to me when reading about the sensitivity to
hurricanes.
The AKC Pet Disaster Relief program was
formed in response to the devastation after
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 where many people stayed in harm's way because emergency response plans
did not accomodate pets.
Re 740, 706 wayne davidson, my 714, and Secular Animist 713... and re 717 wili (didn't read link yet; «franken» storm makes sense to me for 2 reasons: it was the result, in part, of putting a
hurricane together with extratropical storm -
forming conditions — however, both parts would have been alive on their own, no need to give it the spark of life as it just happens on it's own.
The authors speculate that the main reason
hurricanes show this delta is that more of the precipitation is coming from high altitude (depleted in O - 18 based on gravitational potential) and in the
form of large drops that
do not have time to equilibrate wrt O - 18 in lower regions of the cloud as they fall.
It's important to be clear that these models
do not resolve
hurricane processes and that the analysis is related to the large scale «background» environment in which
hurricanes form.
The climate panel foresees fewer
hurricanes, overall, but a rise in strength in those that
do form.
Such global warming should cause more
hurricanes,
hurricanes would still
form in tropics as they
do now, and they could
form in the oceans in the temperate zones.
Do you agree that — we're going to feel some of the repercussions of climate change in the
form of rising sea levels, more intense
hurricanes, and we're going to see droughts and wildfires like that start to occur in the future.
Meanwhile, even if experts are calling it «luck» that Florida went more than a decade without
hurricane landfall, that aberration itself fits the profile of climate change: In general, climate scientists who focus on
hurricanes expect slightly fewer storms, but warn that the ones that
do form will be more powerful.
Climate change didn't cause
Hurricane Irma, the most powerful storm to
form in the open Atlantic Ocean, but
did make it much stronger, scientists in Germany and the U.K. said.
Under normal circumstances, there was almost no way the Atlantic should have been warm enough for a
hurricane to hold
form and hit New York City in late October, as Sandy
did.
Though this is still a subject of active scientific research, current computer models of the atmosphere indicate that
hurricanes are more likely to become less frequent on a global basis, though the
hurricanes that
do form may be more intense.
One year doesn't prove anything, what is interesting about 2005 season is that it shows the obvious: that higher SSTs extend the season in both directions, and extend the region of the ocean in which
hurricanes may
form.
And add logic —
hurricanes don't
form in the Gulf of Mexico; you can look at ground tracks and the NOAA
hurricane page to see where they
form, and watch conditions there that Judith Curry describes in # 85.
Asked a while back —
does the prediction of increased vertical wind shear refer only to the
hurricane -
forming areas, where it would take them apart before they
form?
As the water temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean continue to rise, so too
does the likelihood that more powerful
hurricanes will
form in the future.
While many
hurricanes tend to
do the most damage in the Gulf of Mexico or the Southeastern U.S. coastline,
Hurricane Sandy recently proved that large storms can
form in the North as well.