Sentences with phrase «normal hurricane seasons»

The ACE index is also used to define above -, near -, and below - normal hurricane seasons (based on the 1981 to 2000 period).

Bell stressed, however, that there is still a strong chance of an above - normal hurricane season.

The season begins on June 1 and Colorado State University is predicting a slightly higher than normal hurricane season.

NOAA predicts another higher than normal hurricane season for 2005 and indicates that many years in the future will see higher than normal hurricane frequencies and intensities:

Is it coincidence there was a normal hurricane season and a quiet tornado season in 2005, then a quiet [Atlantic] hurricane season and a normal tornado season in 2006?

The Atlantic basin is expected to see an above - normal hurricane season this year, according to the seasonal outlook issued by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center... 3 to 6 major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of 111 mph or higher)

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Center, which has updated its 2015 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook, there is a 90 % chance of a below - normal hurricane season and a lower chance of expected storm activity in the United States this year.

Scientists are predicting a normal or slightly below normal hurricane season for the U.S. this year, with 5 - 9 hurricanes.

The main reason behind this year's below - normal hurricane season is El Nino.

Remember the Atlantic Hurricane Season runs through the end of November, and as we reported in June, the National Weather Service predicted a heavier than normal hurricane season.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association has projected an above - normal hurricane season for 2012.

Not exact matches

In May, the NOAA predicted the 2017 hurricane season would be above normal, citing cooling waters in the Pacific and predicting two to four major hurricanes.

«We deal with the hurricane season as a «normal» thing in our region, but the giant scope (size, force, rapidness of development) of Irma and Maria are just of another league,» Ríos explained by email.

This year's Atlantic hurricane season will be «above normal,» with 12 to 18 storms, thanks in part to unusually warm ocean temperatures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said yesterday.

With everyone from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Columbia University scientists predicting that this year's hurricane season will be more active than normal, Alex is likely to foreshadow disruptions to come.

The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be quieter than normal, with a below - average number of storms and hurricanes, a leading U.S. hurricane forecasting team said last week.

However, numbers of hurricanes in the North Atlantic have also been above normal (based on 1981 — 2000 averages) in 9 of the last 11 years, culminating in the record - breaking 2005 season.

«So far, the 2015 season is exhibiting characteristics similar to the 1965, 1972, 1982, 1987 and 1997 hurricane seasons, all of which had below - normal activity,» said Klotzbach, lead author of the report.

Bell said that he and his office, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, have been fielding questions about the August lull in Atlantic hurricanes and whether it would cause his forecast team to soften its May and August outlooks, which concluded that the 2013 season had a 70 percent chance of being more active than normal.

«The climate patterns responsible for the expected above - normal 2007 hurricane season continue to be the ongoing multi-decadal signal (the set of oceanic and atmospheric conditions that have spawned increased Atlantic hurricane activity since 1995), warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in key areas of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and the El Nino / La Nina cycle»

RE NOAA and our upcoming hurricane season: I was just perusing NOAA's website and they are still claiming that the main driving force behind this season's predicted greater - than - normal hurricane activity is the Atlantic Mutidecadal Oscillation...

Here is an important subject for policymakers: Should we view the 2005 hurricane season as a normal, to - be-expected «event» or as a once - every - hundred years oddity?

«This Atlantic hurricane season is projected by government and private forecasters to be around normal or a bit above» Is this a revised forecast?

This Atlantic hurricane season is projected by government and private forecasters to be around normal or a bit above, largely because of persistent warmth in tropical seas, and with a lack of the wind patterns in El Niño years that can cut off the tops of forming hurricanes.

During the 2008 - 2009 TC season, the Southern Hemisphere ACE was about half of what's expected in a normal year, with a multitude of very weak, short - lived hurricanes.

The Atlantic is often hit with hurricanes come summertime, but it is likely to see below - normal storms this season, according to the NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

North of the equator, the result was a much above normal Atlantic hurricane season, in which there were 19 named storms, and 12 hurricanes, of which 4 were category 4 or 5, likely making it the second most active year after 2005.

This year's Atlantic hurricane season, which officially begins June 1, is expected to be far more active than normal.

The rest of the storms usually form in the warm and unstable waters of the Gulf of Mexico, popping up from mid-latitude normal storm fronts, often early or late in hurricane season, Klotzbach said.

In May the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US said that this season the Atlantic would probably see more hurricanes than normal, giving a 70 % probability of between three and seven really big storms in 2010.

NOAA 2016 Atlantic hurricane seasonal outlook calls for near normal hurriane season.

Since that time all but two Atlantic hurricane seasons have been above - normal.

This led to a vigorous hurricane season in the Atlantic in 2010 and extensive flooding in China and India in July, and Pakistan in August 2010 in association with the much above normal sea surface temperatures (SSTs), while the La Niña refocused action to occur in these regions and away from the Pacific domain.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center expects the 2011 hurricane season to be worst than normal in the Atlantic.

For Hurricane Season 2017, NOAA has forecast a likely above normal Atlantic Hurricane Season.

AccuWeather reports after a devastating hurricane season for the United States in 2017, forecasters are predicting a near normal to slightly above - normal year with between 12 to 15 tropical storms.