Sentences with phrase «hurricane landfall events»

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Hurricane Maria, which made landfall on Puerto Rico on September 21 as a Category 4 storm, will go down as one of the most devastating events in the island's history.

Katrina was the most feared of all meteorological events, a major hurricane making landfall in a highly - populated low - lying region.

One thing which seems to be missing from the discussion is not whether or not hurricanes will increase in intensity and become more frequent but whether we will begin to see more storms make landfall in places that didn't historically get these kinds of events.

While many studies of the effects of global warming on hurricanes predict an increase in various metrics of Atlantic basin - wide activity, it is less clear that this signal will emerge from background noise in measures of hurricane damage, which depend largely on rare, high - intensity landfalling events and are thus highly volatile compared to basin - wide storm metrics.

To estimate the trend in landfalling storm counts, we count the number of large surge events greater than 10 units in 1 y, which is roughly equivalent to hurricane categories 0 — 5.

While there has been a recent increase in the number of landfalling US hurricanes, the increase in tropical cyclone - associated heavy events is much higher than would be expected from the pre-1994 association between the two, indicating that the upward trend in heavy precipitation events is due to an increase in the number of heavy precipitation events per system.

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(Note that this annual frequency is specific to landfalling segments and different from the annual frequency of landfalling events since some events have multiple landfalling segments, e.g. in 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in both South Florida and Louisiana.)

That science, in turn, gets connected to real - world, real - time events — like what happens when two Category 4 hurricanes make landfall with higher seas.

Now, events in the Atlantic comprise only 11 % of global hurricanes, and U.S. landfalling hurricanes only comprise 1 %.

If AGW doesn't intrinsically increase hurricane frequency (just strength) but does increase El Nino events, then we should see a decrease in Gulf and Atlantic hurricanes and landfalls.

Wrapping up the event, Florida Realtors ® Chief Economist Brad O'Connor took a look at what happened in Florida real estate in 2017 after Hurricane Irma, which made landfall on Cudjoe Key on Sept. 10, as a Category 4 with winds of more than 130 miles per hour.