Sentences with phrase «hurricane record shows»

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Vox's review of procurement records shows that in response to Hurricane Maria alone, FEMA has awarded $ 61 million in single - source contracts — no - bid deals in which agencies only reach out to one business to make a deal.

Statewide, Florida property owners filed 924,439 claims related to Hurricane Irma, with estimated insured losses of $ 8.6 billion, state records show.

In a separate tweet, Ventrice had the following troubling comment: «Wow, a number of ECMWF EPS members show a maximum - sustained windspeed of 180 + mph for #Irma, rivaling Hurricane #Allen (1980) for record wind»

But a list of donors to the Mayor's Hurricane Sandy fund for the year following the gala provided by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board showed no record of any donations coming from the European School of Economics Foundation, nor from any of its administrators.

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What it shows is a 220 year record of Atlantic hurricane activity using a novel proxy method.

With hurricane Arthur headlining the news as throwing a possible wet blanket on 4th of July fireworks shows along the Northeast coast and with a new record being set each passing day for the longest period between major (Category 3 or greater) hurricane landfalls anywhere in the U.S. (3,173 days and counting), we thought that now would be a good time to discuss a new paper which makes a tentative forecast as to what we can expect in terms of the number of Atlantic hurricanes in the near future (next 3 - 5 years).

A new record of sediment deposits from Cape Cod, Mass., show evidence that 23 severe hurricanes hit New England between the years 250 and 1150, the equivalent of a severe storm about once every 40 years on average.

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.

That record shows hurricanes have been increasing in a stepwise fashion since 1900.

Even this year, when three large hurricanes hit the mainland of the United States, the historical record shows no increase in the severity or number of large hurricanes.

Records of hurricane activity worldwide show an upswing of both the maximum wind speed in and the duration of hurricanes.

As the top table shows, so far the very busy 2017 season in the Atlantic basin does exceed the 1981 - 2010 median of various measurements; but the last 2 columns of the table depict a 2017 season (so far) that is not very «unusual» or «exceptional» when compared against the hurricane season activity records stretching back to 1851.

Re # 127, Roger, you ask: «how does one explain the fact that the same hurricane damage record shows a clear and statistically significant ENSO signal (in relation to ASO Nino 3.4)»

Most importantly to your latest point, how does one explain the fact that the same hurricane damage record shows a clear and statistically significant ENSO signal (in relation to ASO Nino 3.4) shows absolutely no correlation with the Atlantic annual PDI?

While global mean temperature and tropical Atlantic SSTs show pronounced and statistically significant warming trends (green curves), the U.S. landfalling hurricane record (orange curve) shows no significant increase or decrease.

Mortality data from 1979 - 2002 death certificate records show twice as many deaths directly from extreme cold than for deaths from extreme heat, 8 times as many deaths as those from floods, and 30 times as many as from hurricanes.

While there have been increases in U.S. landfalling hurricanes and basin - wide hurricane counts since the since the early 1970s, Figure 4 shows that these recent increases are not representative of the behavior seen in the century long records.

While major hurricanes (Figure 3, red curve) show more evidence of a rising trend from the late 1800s, the major hurricane data are considered even less reliable than the other two records in the early parts of the record.

Observed records of Atlantic hurricane activity show some correlation, on multi-year time - scales, between local tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and the Power Dissipation Index (PDI)-- see for example Fig. 3 on this EPA Climate Indicators site.

While the earlier study was based entirely on historical records of past hurricanes, showing nearly a doubling in the intensity of Atlantic storms over the last 30 years, the new work is purely theoretical.