Sentences with phrase «more powerful hurricanes»

As the water temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean continue to rise, so too does the likelihood that more powerful hurricanes will form in the future.

We have been told that climate change would cause more powerful hurricanes and yet we have had a decade of lower hurricane activity and no change in tornado activity.

A: Scientists agree that the earth's rising temperatures are fueling longer and hotter heat waves, more frequent droughts, heavier rainfall, and more powerful hurricanes.

Now one of the points made earlier by Gavin was that the ocean is able to retain heat, and thus if a given season fails to produce hurricanes one season, then the next season that there is less windshear should see more powerful hurricanes due to the increased heat reserve.

Global warming also creates conditions that can lead to more powerful hurricanes.

Increasing carbon dioxide emissions could increase the risk of more frequent and more powerful hurricanes to strike at the northeastern coast of the United States.

It is leading to more widespread drought, more frequent heat waves and more powerful hurricanes.

Last week, a team of 19 top climate scientists from government labs in the United States and Europe reported that the buildup of human - induced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appeared to be the primary driving force behind warmer oceans that fuel more powerful hurricanes.

Gerry Bell and Chris Landsea are NOAA hurricane researchers who have repeatedly emphasized natural «decadal» cycles not global warming as a cause of more powerful hurricanes.

The Dire predictions of more and more powerful hurricanes have been demonstrated to be false.

«Their results show that you get more powerful hurricanes if the sea surface temperatures are higher,» he says.

The more powerful the hurricane, the greater the drop of ocean surface temperature in its wake.

Yet the more powerful hurricane of 1938 only generated maximum water levels at Battery Park, NY of 8.8 feet, and does not make New York City's top ten high water levels over the past 100 years.

The warmer the water, the more energy gets sucked in the air and the faster a tropical cyclone develops into a hurricane and the more powerful this hurricane can grow — other complex meteorological factors left aside.

-- Wind shear: The less the vertical wind shear — the difference in the direction and force of the winds at the surface compared to several miles into the air — the more powerful the hurricane can become.The influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Wind shear: The less the vertical wind shear — the difference in the direction and force of the winds at the surface compared to several miles into the air — the more powerful the hurricane can become.

Not exact matches

Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years, swallowing houses, flooding neighborhoods and leaving millions without power.

Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years — swallowing houses, flooding neighborhoods and leaving millions without power.

The most powerful Hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years has devastated much of the coast, and the historic flooding is now causing havoc in the energy markets.

Harvey, which came ashore on August 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, has killed an estimated 50 people, displaced more than 1 million and damaged some 200,000 homes in a path of destruction stretching for more than 300 miles.

One hundred days ago, powerful Category 4 Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico leaving the island severely crippled and the more than 3 million U.S. citizens desperate for help.

When there's a spate of major hurricanes, people tend to wonder if we're entering an era of bigger and more powerful storms, says Dan Kottlowski, a meteorologist at AccuWeather, a Pennsylvania - based company that provides forecasts.

Hurricane Maria hit the islands as a powerful Category 4 storm, decimating infrastructure and leaving many of the more than 3.4 million US citizens without power, communications, or access to food, water, and fuel.

Maria hit Puerto Rico about two weeks after Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, killed more than 80 people in the Caribbean and the United States.

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed $ 7.9 billion in Hurricane Harvey disaster relief as warring Republicans and Democrats united behind help for victims of that storm as an ever more powerful new hurricane bore down onHurricane Harvey disaster relief as warring Republicans and Democrats united behind help for victims of that storm as an ever more powerful new hurricane bore down onhurricane bore down on Florida.

In 1780, a powerful hurricane swept across the islands of the Caribbean, killing an estimated 22,000 people; 5,000 more died of starvation and disease in the aftermath.

Corral says that the finding hints that rising temperatures due to climate change will bring more of the most powerful hurricanes, but cautions it is difficult to say for sure.

But recent research, he adds, shows that the largest hurricanes — with the fastest winds — could become even more powerful CO2 - spawning dynamos as the planet heats up.

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

«The human deaths and the powerful landscape - altering destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy are a stark reminder that our nation must become more resilient to coastal hazards,» said Kevin Gallagher, associate director for Core Science Systems at USGS.

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more powerful and increased its deadly flooding, according to new research released as major storms may be driving more Americans to worry about global warming.

Warmer air can carry more moisture, which can lead to more extreme rainfall events, and warmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurricanes.

Others argue that global warming brought on by the increased production of greenhouse gasses will lead to larger hurricane zones and more powerful storms.

Battered by two intensely powerful storms with sustained wind gusts of more than 150 miles per hour last year — first by Hurricane Irma and then by Hurricane Maria — Puerto Rico suffered widespread and catastrophic damage to its urban infrastructure.

If homeowners affected by Hurricane Irene or its less powerful incarnation, Tropical Storm Irene, experienced wind and flood damage, they could be in for a rude awakening when they file insurance... more

Now, with Hurricane Matthew, one of the most powerful storms to threaten the Southeast coast in more than a decade, and causing mass destruction in Haiti, Animal League America's Emergency Rescue Team is fully prepared to do everything in our power to provide shelter, food, medical treatment, and any other essential services to keep animals safe in the affected areas.

When Hurricane Irma passed through the Caribbean last week before making landfall again in Florida, it was so powerful it sucked water away from beaches... Read More

I've sent a query to some hurricane researchers to get a bit more on what, besides warm sea temperatures, makes conditions this ripe for powerful tropical storms.

Will climate change make tropical cyclones — known as hurricanes in the Atlantic basin — more frequent or powerful in the future?

More powerful than a failed Hurricane season.

What is the evidence that the growing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are changing weather systems in such a way that hurricanes become more powerful, or more frequent?

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.

Flooding, drought, hurricanes, wildfires — extreme weather events, once infrequent, are becoming more common and powerful due to climate change.

The earlier period of powerful hurricane activity matched previous studies that found evidence of high hurricane activity during the same period in more southerly areas of the western North Atlantic Ocean basin — from the Caribbean to the Gulf Coast.

Battered by two intensely powerful storms with sustained wind gusts of more than 150 miles per hour last year — first by Hurricane Irma and then by Hurricane Maria — Puerto Rico suffered widespread and catastrophic damage to its urban infrastructure.

Scientists are using satellites to identify where increasing sea levels could result in the most destructive storm surge as hurricanes grow more powerful due to climate change.

«Climate change doesn't cause hurricanes, but hot ocean water makes them more powerful.

On Nov. 11, 2013, «Today» Dr. Raghu Murtugudde predicted the increase of high - intensity hurricanes during a segment on how global warming would make hurricanes more powerful.

A 1987 study sponsored by the electric utility industry warned that climate change could one day fuel more powerful storms, some thirty years before hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Meanwhile, even if experts are calling it «luck» that Florida went more than a decade without hurricane landfall, that aberration itself fits the profile of climate change: In general, climate scientists who focus on hurricanes expect slightly fewer storms, but warn that the ones that do form will be more powerful.