Sentences with phrase «intense intense hurricanes»

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You have a big project like the icebreakers that you've been trying to get off the ground for a while, but this season hurricane activity has been particularly intense, so what's the give - and - take there with your long - term projects and those short - term requirements?

Let's unpack them and explore what they mean not just for Texas and Florida, but for all communities at risk of intense hurricanes in the future.

And these are typical hurricanes, not extraordinarily intense ones like Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, and Hurricane Maria.

That means warmer air and warmer water could lead to larger, more intense hurricanes, which in turn lead to more rainfall.

After all, hurricanes and other weather events with intense winds can easily knock down power lines.

First off, yes: There's consensus that the science of climate change predicts that in a warming world, hurricanes will become more intense, carry more rain, and cause worse coastal flooding linked in part to sea level rise.

Irma has become an impressive hurricane with intense eyewall convection surrounding a small eye.

Naturally, there are years where hurricane activity is intense and years where it remits.

Absolutely no other kind would do and the eye of her hurricane was too intense to redirect her attention to anything.

While the eye of Hurricane Maria has left Puerto Rico, powerful winds and intense rains are still pounding the island and further damaging its already crippled infrastructure.

Hurricane Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road.

We can't say that climate change causes hurricanes, but it makes hurricanes more intense.

Hurricane Maria, one of the most intense storms ever recorded, wreaked havoc upon Puerto Rico's electrical grid, rendering a significant portion of the archipelago without power.

When an extreme event collides with continually rising seas, it takes a less intense storm, such as a Category I hurricane, to inflict as much coastal damage as a Category II or III storm would have had when the seas were lower.

The pattern isn't as evident in the northern Atlantic Ocean as it is in the southern Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean, but if the trend continues, it means more intense hurricanes in places of greater population.

How can two such intense hurricanes — Harvey and then Irma — occur in a very short period of time?

High - density life unfolded in New York during a period of relative quiescence in intense hurricane activity.

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Hurricane Sandy was, barometrically speaking, an extremely intense storm, though the 1938 Great New England Hurricane was likely more powerful.

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Scientists say climate change is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive.

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It's hurricane season and intense weather is in the news and on everyone's minds.

«Dangerous» global warming includes consequences such as increased risk of extreme weather and climate events ranging from more intense heat waves, hurricanes, and floods, to prolonged droughts.

According to his models, if the sea warms to predicted levels, the most intense hurricanes will be 40 to 50 percent more severe than the most intense hurricanes of the past 50 years.

Climate change is expected to make tropical hurricanes less frequent but more intense.

Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall was three times more likely than a storm from the early 1900s and 15 percent more intense as a result of climate change, a new study in Environmental Research Letters found.

What he found was that not only were the simulations much closer to actual observations, but the high - resolution models were far better at reproducing intense storms, such as hurricanes and cyclones.

Intense lightning storms in East Africa are linked to the creation of America's hurricanes, says a team of Israeli atmospheric scientists.

«High resolution gives us the ability to look at intense weather, like hurricanes,» said Kevin Reed, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a co-author on the paper.

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy's intense wind and waves reshaped hundreds of miles of coastline.

A group of climatologists at Georgia Tech claim that a rise in sea surface temperatures over the last 30 years is «directly linked» to increases in the number of intense hurricanes.

The report concludes that a warmer climate could affect U.S. residents both directly (through droughts, heat waves, and increasingly intense hurricanes) and indirectly (through greater incidence of disease transmitted by mosquitoes and other carriers, decreased air quality, and rising pollen counts).

In 2005 MIT climatologist Kerry Emanuel stirred intense debate with a study indicating that global warming had caused hurricanes to nearly double in strength since the 1970s.

On the other hand, statistical analysis of the past century's hurricanes and computer modeling of a warmer climate, nudged along by greenhouse gases, does indicate that rising ocean temperatures could fuel hurricanes that are more intense.

«A warming world has the potential not for more hurricanes, but rather more intense hurricanes,» she says.

In the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next century.

Scientists caution that climate change can make hurricanes more intense.

Each December, six months before the start of hurricane season, the now 75 - year - old Gray and his team issue a long - range prediction of the number of major tropical storms that will arise in the Atlantic Ocean basin, as well as the number of hurricanes (with sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or more) and intense hurricanes (with winds of at least 111 mph).

Landfalling typhoons have become more intense in the northwest Pacific while Hawaii has seen a string of hurricanes and tropical storms swing dangerously close to the island in recent years.

Some point to periods of intense hurricane activity in Earth's past and worry that such trends may return.

Climate models suggest that hurricane intensity should increase as the world warms, and that the most intense storms will become a bigger proportion of the total.

Female names, especially friendly sounding names like Belle, may have made the hurricanes seem less intense.

And it's likely that there is some kind of effect, such as hurricanes becoming more intense.

An analysis from our World Weather Attribution team indicated the rain from Hurricane Harvey over Texas was about three times more likely and 15 percent more intense from climate change.

However, lingering near the coast where it has been, Hurricane Harvey maintained a healthy energy supply and has been able to continue picking up moisture and dumping it over land through sustained and intense rainfall.

But they aren't simply garden - variety major hurricanes: each of the three storms were particularly intense, carrying ratings of 4 (wind -LSB-...]

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