Sentences with phrase «length of the hurricane season»
«The length of the hurricane season has been expanding,» he says, «increasing by about five days per decade — about 15 days since 1970.»
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«We do know that if you heat up the oceans, you tend to increase the length of hurricane season and have storms earlier and later in season,» Masters said.
Not exact matches
NOAA has issued its annual forecast for the hurricane season, along with its now - standard explanation that there is a natural cycle of multidecadal (40 - 60 year) length in the North Atlantic circulation (often referred to as the «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» — see Figure), that is varying the frequency of Atlantic tropical cyclones, and that the present high level of activity is due to a concurrent positive peak in this oscillation.
The question of hurricane season length is a good one, and early starts and late endings do make you ponder the choice of start and end dates sometimes.