Not exact matches
Vital information that state officials and
experts could use to respond to flooding,
hurricanes, and other natural disasters is no longer easily accessible on the web, EDGI
says.
Experts say it depends on several factors, including the cost and components of your trip, where you live and where you're headed, and what potential problems you're worried about (like that «extremely active»
hurricane season).
Hurricane Harvey fell from a Category 4 to Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it get
Hurricane Harvey fell from a Category 4 to Category 1
hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it get
hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with
experts saying it will likely get worse before it gets better.
The
experts I spoke to all
said there's no simple explanation for the number of
hurricanes that can form in a given year.
Of this year's storm season, «it's explainable to some degree, and to another degree we simply don't know why it's been so crazy busy,»
said Jeff Masters, a
hurricane expert at Weather Underground, a popular weather website.
Experts say that while the number of storms per year is steady, stronger
hurricanes have increased in recent decades.
«Kids are very intuitive and perceptive,»
says child development and parenting
expert Denise Daniels, who has helped children around the globe cope with losses as a result of tragedies such as 9/11,
Hurricane Katrina, and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.
Hurricane Irma's state - engulfing radar signature and widespread damage will be a hard image to shake, but tourism
experts say Florida's biggest industry will rebound.
It's not possible to
say with 100 percent certainty that a death this long after a storm was «caused» by
Hurricane Maria,
experts told me.
Earthquakes and
hurricanes will always wreak havoc, but risk management
expert Robert Bea
says the greatest tragedies result from hubris and greed.
Other
experts say that the effect of
hurricanes on global warming would probably be minimal as only the largest storms are expected to get stronger.
Hurricane Maria's destruction on Puerto Rico could spawn one of the largest mass migration events in the United States» recent history,
experts say, as tens of thousands of storm victims flee the island territory to rebuild their lives on the U.S. mainland.
Regardless of the path, the
hurricane could cause destruction to both coasts of Florida,
said Bryan Norcross, a
hurricane expert at the Weather Channel.
The reason for the quiet season is the stable air in the deep tropical parts of the basin that are «the best «bang for your buck» regions, so to speak, for getting strong typhoons,»
hurricane expert Phil Klotzbach, of Colorado State University,
said in an email.
MONTREAL — Canadian snowbirds who were lucky enough to escape property damage from
hurricane Irma will still face higher costs as insurance providers jack up premiums and condo associations levy special assessments,
say Florida insurance
experts.
Oh dear, should have mentioned that
experts are
saying this is * not * a harbinger of a busy
hurricane season.
Whatever the relationship between
hurricanes and climate,
experts say,
hurricanes are hitting the coasts, and houses should not be built in their path.
«We didn't want to just build barriers; we wanted to build an ecosystem,»
said Henk Ovink, a Dutch water - management
expert who now serves as a senior adviser to the Presidential
Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, a group within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has earmarked billions for the program.
The tools exist to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to meet aggressive global warming caps, but it may take more catastrophes like
Hurricane Katrina to forge the political will, a top U.N.
expert said.
Landsea, a
hurricane expert, had
said that recent
hurricane activity had not been made more severe by «global warming.»
So the
expert group from the World Meteorological Organization
says that they can not detect any change in the number of
hurricanes from normal in the past.
That position is «plausible,»
says hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Hurricanes are not that dissimilar to cyclones (they die as typical cyclones), so lets
say that you are not an
expert on
hurricanes, then you may have an opinion on lesser meteorological entities?
The divergent findings,
says hurricane expert Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, «indicate that care needs to be taken in being too explicit with climate predictions of changes in tropical cyclone frequency at this stage.»
And some
hurricane experts who previously have questioned the influence of global warming now
say the evidence is mounting that it has contributed to recent intense tropical storms.