Sentences with phrase «hurricane records»

Chunzai Wang of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Sang - Ki Lee of the University of Miami, US, examined 150 years of hurricane records and found a small decline in hurricanes making landfall in the United States as oceans warmed.

Then Chris Landsea's article about past hurricane records came out, which made the point in publication that I had referenced from NOAA's website.

Since in nature the relationship should be relatively steady over a long period of time, one can conclude that before the mid-1940s, the Atlantic major hurricane records were less likely to include those that did not strike the United States.

Although reliable sea surface temperature records exist back to the mid-1850s, hurricane records are less reliable.

With regard to changes in hurricane activity, the statement says that the Atlantic basin has the most reliable historical hurricane records.

Centuries of hurricane records have been discovered in the rings of southeastern US pine trees.

Part of the difficulty is «miserable» global historical hurricane records, says Prof Kevin Trenberth from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research.

The relatively short time period of quality hurricane records makes detecting such trends difficult, though.

The two now have continuous tree - ring hurricane records for parts of the southeast dating back 227 years, from 1770 to 1997.

Although hurricane records date back more than a century, they have been gathered using techniques of varying accuracy, such that it is often hard to compare new data with old.

It's possible that historic hurricane records, which go back to the 1800s, are incomplete or have inaccurate information on wind speeds and size.

Hurricane Andrew, one of the most destructive hurricanes recorded, was a Category 5 storm that struck Florida in 1992, killing 25 people and destroying 28,000 homes.

In fact, it is the 2nd largest hurricane recorded to have happened in the Atlantic Ocean.

Georgia Tech climatologist Peter Webster and others are looking at better ways to mine the hurricane record by excluding the most heavily disputed data.

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.

The strongest hurricane recorded at sea, named Patricia, hit the south west of Mexico on Friday evening local time, though it calmed somewhat by Saturday.

However, the hurricane record has some peculiarities: hurricanes are highly confined structures, so you have to be at the right place at the right time to observe them.

As with all climate variables, the hurricane record becomes increasingly uncertain when we go back in time.

This means that the reliability of the long - term hurricane record is dependent on who was measuring them, and how, at any given time.

In his letter, Landsea refers to the large body of evidence (ie more than just one study) supporting the consensus among hurricane researchers that is there is no detectable human signal in the hurricane record.

The hurricanes «generated» within the models are all modeled on a single hurricane record from 1996.

NeilT: About the complete hurricane record, I hope you all won't mind if I again recommend the terrific history (author tends liberal, but there's nothing wrong with his history and interviews, which are fascinating) presented in «Storm World» by Chris Mooney (Harcourt, 2007).

Furthermore, the paper clearly states that it doesn't address hurricane intensity, but only the landfalling hurricane record — and as others have noted the landfalling hurricane record doesn't really relate to the total hurricane frequency.

It also extends the hurricane record for the region by hundreds of years, back to the first century, he said.

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.

Hurricane landfalling frequency is much less common than basin - wide occurrence, meaning that the U.S. landfalling hurricane record, while more reliable than the basin - wide record, suffers from degraded signal - to - noise characteristics for assessing trends.

In short, the historical Atlantic hurricane record does not provide compelling evidence for a substantial greenhouse warming - induced long - term increase.

There have been 40 hurricanes recorded in this area since 1930, with the largest being Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

In fact, there have been 32 hurricanes recorded in this high risk zone since 1930.

Not exact matches

In the process, social media turned into a real - time record of small business survival tactics during Hurricane Sandy.

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday afternoon said a record 51.88 inches (131.78 cm) of rain has fallen in Texas due to Harvey, a record for any storm in the continental United States.

Not long ago, we would never have imagined enduring Hurricane Harvey, one of the most tragic national disasters in recorded history.

At one point, the hurricane was so strong in the Caribbean that it was identified as a Category 5, breaking the record for the most powerful storm ever detected in the open Atlantic.

«We expect investors will ignore the EPS slowdown given one - time hurricane effects and the focus on benefits from corporate tax reform,» a group of the firm's strategists led by David Kostin wrote in a client report, noting that optimism around tax measures was crucial in the S&P 500's ascent to new records last week.

It's tradition for Branson to coop up at his home on Necker Island and stick it out through major hurricanes — he's done so three times throughout the past 30 years, and this record - breaking storm was no different.

Irma is not expected to linger over the U.S. mainland as long as Hurricane Harvey, a phenomenon that led to record rainfall and storm surge in areas of Texas and Louisiana.

Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Friday, records amount of rain have hit the southeast Texas, causing billions of dollars in damage.

Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Friday, it has brought with it record amounts of rain and caused billions of dollars in damage.

Just as southern Texas began to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, Florida and the Caribbean soon endured Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.

Haiti did not take a direct hit from Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, but it unleashed rains that washed away fields of rice and plantains in coastal areas.

U.S. stocks rallied to record highs Monday as Hurricane Irma weakened without causing as much damage as many had feared, and a North Korean holiday passed without new missile launches.

We had no sooner taken stock of the extraordinary damage wrought by Hurricane Harvey in Texas than another uniquely fierce and record - breaking hurricane began heading straight toward the Caribbean and the soutHurricane Harvey in Texas than another uniquely fierce and record - breaking hurricane began heading straight toward the Caribbean and the southurricane began heading straight toward the Caribbean and the southeast US.

A new report from the Rhodium Group on Puerto Rico's ongoing blackout has found that Hurricane Maria has spawned the second - largest power outage in the world on record.

(And partly because many storm - related deaths aren't recorded, the «official» Hurricane Katrina death toll is widely regarded as inaccurately low.)

According to data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service, Hurricane Harvey was the wettest cyclone in U.S. history with a recorded 60.58 inches of rainfall in Nederland, Texas.

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.

For example, the largest storm surge recorded before Katrina was about 22 feet, during Hurricane Camille in 1969.

Earlier in the week, Irma sustained 185 mph winds for more than 24 hours, a record length of time for a hurricane in the Atlantic.

The numbers from the second record - breaking storm that hit the US this summer, Hurricane Irma, meanwhile, are still rolling in.

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