Sentences with phrase «hurricanes than any other year»

The year 2005 gave us more hurricanes than any other year, as well as the costliest hurricane in Katrina, the strongest hurricane in Wilma, and another of the costliest hurricanes in Rita.

Not exact matches

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

Since 1986, the first year the National Weather Service reported data on heat - related deaths, more people in the United States have died from heat (3,979) than from any other weather - related disaster — more than floods (2,599), tornadoes (2,116) or hurricanes (1,391).

The hurricane's strongest sustained winds, at 185 mph, blew for more than 65 consecutive hours, something no other tropical cyclone has done in the modern satellite era, which began 50 years ago, according to Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University.

More than twelve years after Hurricane Katrina, scientists are learning what makes some survivors more resilient than others

Other hurricane - friendly climate factors this year include ENSO - neutral conditions (no El Niño or La Niña) in the Pacific Ocean, warmer than average waters in the tropical Atlantic, and a stronger - than - average West African monsoon.

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.

In the four years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, New Orleans has shown more growth in student achievement than any other district in the state.

It was the strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in Mexico, and more than a year later, resorts and other businesses continue to repair or even rebuild.

At one hurricane season shy of fifty years and running, there is no band on earth or elsewhere that can claim Bubble Puppy, Scritti Politti, Slovenly, and Gastr del Sol as their immediate contemporaries other than The Red Crayola.

Do you really think the fact that waters are warmer and atmospheric moisture content is higher now due to man - made global warming (not to mention the «blocking high» over Greenland due to Arctic climate change) may be less of an influence on Hurricane Sandy than some other currently unobserved changes to our climate that occurred 3000 years ago?

This makes most land - falling hurricanes more damaging than 100 years ago, all other things being equal, no matter what is happening to maximum hurricane intensity.

Since daily ACE represents a 4 - times daily sum of wind speed squared, an «average» September 21st could see one of the following (among other combos): One TC at 125 knots Two TCs at 90 knots Three TCs at 70 knots or Six TCs at 50 knots Current TCs = 0 September 15: Global Hurricane Frequency [storms with maximum intensity greater than 64 knots] has dramatically collapsed during the past 2 - 3 years.

Finds that hurricanes and other tropical cyclones across the globe reach Category 3 wind speeds nearly nine hours earlier than they did 25 years ago

When asked if specific health problems will become more or less common over the next 10 years in their community due to global warming, more than one third of Americans think the following conditions will become more common: air pollution, including smog (38 %); pollen - related allergies (38 %); asthma / other lung diseases (37 %); heat stroke (36 %); and bodily harm from severe storms and / or hurricanes (34 %).

As Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research explained, «If you take the last 10 years, we've had twice the number of category - 5 hurricanes than any other [10 - year period] on record.»

Almost a year later, Hurricane Katrina is churning up something other than storms, broken levees and floods: litigation.

Other areas were hit much harder, and of course those that were impacted by Katrina and the hurricanes last year in Florida had much more loss than us.

Travel insurance comparison website Squaremouth said that Hurricane Harvey caused more trip cancellations than any other event this year, but that Irma was expected to top Harvey.

Volcanoes, floods, and other unpredictable acts of nature have left millions of travelers stranded or disappointed already this year, but according to top climate scientists, one thing is certain: the 2010 hurricane season is going to be more volatile than ever, and that means further travel disruptions can happen at short notice.

Some years pass by with barely more than a severe thunderstorm while other years pack a punch with devastating hurricanes and coastal storms.

ST. PETERSBURG FL September 5, 2017 — Hurricane Harvey forced more travelers to cancel their trips than any other single event this year, according to claims data from travel insurance comparison site, Squaremouth.

Programmer / Business Analyst (Year — Year) • Created an online nutritional applications that services needs of more than 710,000 visitors per month • Served as lead IT specialist in the creation of an online presence for the Corporate Social Responsibility business partner • Published online reporting and surveys achieving client goal of transparency before the public and doubled site visits • Partnered and led other business units to create a support site for McDonald's employees affected by Hurricane Katrina • Facilitated the location of housing, transportation, employee and financial assistance of over 6,000 displaced employees

That remarkable effort marked the start of the REALTORS ® Relief Foundation, which, over a 10 - year span, has provided more than $ 22 million in funding to help citizens recover from hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, wildfires, and other major disasters.

hopefully we'll be hurricane free for many years and you won't need another cottage other than your own!