Sentences with phrase «major hurricane»

Before the active hurricane season in the United States in 2017, there had been a lull of 4324 days (almost 12 years) in major hurricane landfalls, the longest lull since the 1860s.

These results suggest an important role of the recent AMOC weakening in the decline of Atlantic major hurricane frequency since 2005.

The assumption that the records of major hurricane activity are complete before the advent of aircraft reconnaissance leads directly to the erroneous conclusion that major hurricanes became much more numerous starting in 1943.

However, aspects of EJN analysis are questionable because its treatment of the Atlantic major hurricane database may be erroneous, because its proposed link to the North Atlantic Oscillation is unsubstantiated, and because it fails to cite or acknowledge key earlier studies.

Hurricane Harvey crossed the shorelines of southern Texas on August 25, marking the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States in a dozen years.

The authors» findings show that the recent decline in Atlantic major hurricane frequency since 2005 is consistent with a weakening of AMOC inferred from ocean observations.

This study explores the causes of the recent decline of Atlantic major hurricane frequency over the period 2005 - 2015, using various observational datasets and modeling results from a 500 - year control simulation of a fully coupled earth system model, GFD's ESM2G.

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.

Ocean observations and simulations from GFDL Earth System Model (ESM2G) show that the recent decline in Atlantic major hurricane frequency since 2005 is consistent with a weakening of AMOC

Even the short period of modern records proves that it's only a matter of time before every single spot on the Gulf Coast is hit by a major hurricane.

A particulary ominous aspect of this prediction is that the increase in activity appears most clearly as an increase in devastating major hurricane landfalls from one every other year to one every year.

Yet despite providing these essential ecosystem services, the cypress are being mercilessly cut down and pulverized to make mulch - ironic, given that the very houses they decorate might end up being swept away by the next major hurricane (at the rate the loggers are going).

Not only would these help us avoid the fate of New Orleans in a major hurricane, they could also help preserve large parts of our city in the event of sea level rise!

Though these statistical predictions can not portend when any of the storms will form or where they will go, Klotzbach, Gray and colleagues calculate an 81 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast in 2006.

The United States recently experienced one of its longest hurricane «droughts» in modern history, spanning a decade since a major hurricane made landfall.

Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 [thinsp] years: Abstract: Nature The US hasn't had a major hurricane for almost twelve years, the longest such... Continue reading →

I have seen personally the damage a major Hurricane and ef5 tornadoes make and we see nothing from Patricias landfall area.

If you're rich like Florida, a major hurricane might cause plenty of damage to expensive buildings, but it kills few people and causes a temporary dent in economic output.

Comparison of Miami Beach in 1926 (before a major hurricane hit) and now.

Indeed, Prof. Roger Pielke, Jr. has calculated that, even if a major hurricane makes landfall in the US during the 2014 hurricane season, it will still be the longest period on record without a hurricane of Category 3 + making landfall in the US!

What are the mathematical odds of the US and Caribbean nations experiencing a sudden rash of catastrophic hurricanes after a 12 year major hurricane landfall drought?

Harvey formed, died and then came back to life as a major hurricane, dumping a record amount of rainfall on south Texas last month.

Planning experts have long fretted over the possibility of a major hurricane striking Houston.

The United States is benefiting from the longest period in recorded history without a major hurricane strike.

And there's an even smaller chance that one of these storms will transform into a major hurricane.

Even with Hurricane Sandy, November 2012 marks the quietest long - term hurricane period since the Civil War, with one major hurricane strike on the U.S. in seven years.

Added to this list can be perturbation scenarios that start with regional reanalysis (e.g. such as by arbitrarily adding a 1C increase in minimum temperature in the winter, a 10 day increase in the growing season, a doubling of major hurricane landfalls on the Florida coast, etc).

«2018 Hurricane Prediction — Strongest Cycle in 70 Years» http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/01/prweb15095592.htm «Global Weather Oscillations (GWO) was cited by news media as the only major hurricane prediction organization that correctly predicted the hyperactive 2017 Atlantic hurricane season from beginning to end, and the destructive United States hurricane landfalls... GWO has issued the most accurate predictions by any organization during the past 10 years.

These results also highlight the influence of a weakening of the AMOC on the recent decline of Atlantic major hurricane frequency during 2005 - 2015.

The role of Atlantic overturning circulation in the recent decline of Atlantic major hurricane frequency (Nature Communications)

The observational and modeling results of the teleconnections linked to AMOC changes (including the dynamical response of vertical wind shear over the main development region of Atlantic hurricanes) suggest an important role of the AMOC in the AMV and the multidecadal variability of the Atlantic major hurricane frequency.

The observed North Atlantic sulfate aerosol optical depth has not increased (but shows a modest decline) over this period, suggesting the decline of the Atlantic major hurricane frequency during 2005 — 2015 is not likely due to recent changes in anthropogenic sulfate aerosols.

In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, using both observations and a coupled Earth system model (GFDL - ESM2G) with a more realistic simulation of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) structure, and thus reduced mean state biases in the North Atlantic, the authors show that the decline of the Atlantic major hurricane frequency during 2005 — 2015 is associated with a weakening of the AMOC directly observed from the RAPID program.

«A major hurricane here could bring economic and ecological disaster,» they wrote, including flood damage, destruction of entire low - lying neighborhoods, devastation to Galveston, and a massive disruption of our country's oil and shipping industries:

Using observations and a coupled Earth system model, a new study shows that the decline of the Atlantic major hurricane frequency during 2005 — 2015 is associated with a weakening of the AMOC.

Hurricane Harvey was the 8th named storm of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season and the first major hurricane.

• Harvey's landfall in Texas on August 25 was the first major hurricane to make continental United States landfall since Wilma in 2005, ending the record - long major hurricane landfall drought at 4323 days.

Klotzbach said the «fear of complacency» grows as the major hurricane gap lengthens.

• Hurricane Ophelia was a major hurricane until it reached 18.3 ° W, making it the most easterly major hurricane on record.

There were no hurricane landfalls during 2015 and we haven't seen a major hurricane make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005.

People who have lived through a major hurricane tend to prepare better for the next one and take it more seriously.

On Oct. 24, it will be exactly 8 years since the last major hurricane of Category 3 strength or greater made landfall.

And «Large parts of Long Island, New York with its very large population, would be underwater if a major hurricane passed over its western end.»

As the United States cleans up after one major hurricane and braces for another, optimists note that all this destruction could yield one positive result: As we experience bigger and more powerful storms — just as the models predicted — perhaps we'll finally come to grips with climate change.

The North Atlantic only represents a 1/10 to 1/8 of global hurricane energy output on average but deservedly so demands disproportionate media attention due to the devastating societal impacts of recent major hurricane landfalls.

In following the course of projections for this storm, and then the burst of criticism about failed intensity forecasts, I was brought back to the hours I spent with meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center in September, 2004, as they tracked the course of Hurricane Ivan (shortly before I headed to Alabama to cover its landfall as a major hurricane; here's a narrated report I filed from Mobile).

Also, there has not been a major hurricane hitting the U.S. since Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005.

It's only a matter of time until another major hurricane makes landfall in the New York metro area.

«from 1945 - 1969 when the globe was undergoing a weak cooling trend, the Atlantic basin experienced 80 major (Cat 3 -4-5) hurricanes and 201 major hurricane days.

This example raises an interesting point, which is that the uncertainty regarding a major hurricane hitting New Orleans was only in the timing and our society still decided it had other priorities for the money.