Sentences with phrase «larger number of hurricanes»

Not exact matches

These hurricanes disrupted normal airline flight operations, with the largest number of cancellations occurring the day after Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys, with 4,567 cancellations.

Stanley Holdorf, an NLG attorney, told me, «There are a sufficiently large number of discrepancies and inconsistencies to raise credible concerns about the veracity of TDCJ claims that these photos and video were, in fact, shot on a single day in hurricane - affected units post-Harvey.»

Southwest Florida has seen a number of large storm surges from hurricanes that rival the predicted 8 — 12» storm surge from Hurricane Irma.

Following Hurricane Katrina, Republicans argue, large numbers of black voters in the New Orleans area left the state, never to return.

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

But a reduction in the number and intensity of large hurricanes driving ocean waters on shore — such as this month's Hurricane Joaquin, seen, which reached category 4 strength — may also play a role by cooling sea - surface temperatures that fuel the growth of these monster storms, the team notes.

These relationships have been reinforced by findings of a large increase in numbers and proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 and 5 globally since 1970 even as total number of cyclones and cyclone days decreased slightly in most basins.

ref The number of strong hurricanes (category 4 and 5) increased by about 75 % since 1970 with largest increases observed in the North Pacific, Indian, and Southwest Pacific Oceans.

The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers» union, has asked U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and members of Congress to waive accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act for schools hit by the hurricane as well as those taking in large numbers...

A large number of Maryland homes are located in a hurricane - prone area, a floodplain, or both.

If I can spread around the idiosyncratic risk of vacancies, major repairs, mold problems, hurricanes, earthquakes, lawsuits, etc. over a larger number of properties and over a wider geographic area, I'm all for it!

Even if your claim is covered, hurricanes pose an additional issue in that they cause damage to a large number of properties at once.

A number of external factors loomed large this year at the festival, most notably the damage wreaked by Hurricane Sandy galleries across the East Coast.

At the end of their comment # 27 the authors state «Turning to very important question of the frequency of the strongest storms, it is entirely possible that a large increase in category 4 - 5 storms will result from increasing greenhouse gases, despite an overall reduction in hurricane numbers.

The warmpth in the southern USA and elsewhere north of the hurricane - producing region has been as large a factor in the large number of storms this season as the actual SST where the storms are formed, because it has decreased wind shear.

Webster et al. (2005)(Sept. 16) found in all ocean basins «a large increase... in the number and proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 and 5.»

Any claim that a particular year had the largest number of named hurricanes is bogus, because we don't know how many hurricanes were undetected before the use of satellites.

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.

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.

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.

• There have been fluctuations in the number of tropical storms and hurricanes from decade to decade, and data uncertainty is larger in the early part of the record compared to the satellite era beginning in 1965.

In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy struck the northeastern United States around New Jersey and devastated a number of large metropolitan areas, including New York City.

«We were being attacked by the anti-global-warming crowd as well as a large number of people in the hurricane community who thought this was natural variability.»

No stretch to conclude that SELCO's simple design would be perfect for the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to keep on hand in large numbers for extended power outages: say in the even of a hurricane?

In fact, read in full, the statement outlines a number of ways global warming should worsen hurricane impacts that are a matter of consensus (to say nothing of potentially larger magnitude changes that are still debated but that may well be happening).