Sentences with phrase «number of hurricanes»

In fact, the three states with the highest average condo insurance cost all rank as some of the states with the greatest number of hurricane strikes.

Both should have led to a below - normal number of hurricanes.

Today, the average number of hurricanes each year is double that of the first decade of the 20th century.

In fact, the three states with the highest average condo insurance cost all rank as some of the states with the greatest number of hurricane strikes.

It's the same mythology used about increased number of hurricanes.

But the overall number of hurricanes in many regions was likely to «either decrease or remain essentially unchanged.»

As the climate continues to warm, the average intensity of tropical cyclones (including hurricanes in the North Atlantic) is projected to rise while the overall number of hurricanes globally is expected to either decrease or remain unchanged.

The study concluded that while they don't see any human influence in the total number of hurricanes, there is a strong signal with global warming causing more strong (Category 4 and 5) and fewer weak (Category 1 and 2) hurricanes (Figure 3).

It has also been a year marked by the fewest number of hurricanes since 1982 and the first since 1994 without the formation of a major hurricane.

Figure 7u - 10 describes the annual number of hurricanes that developed in the North Atlantic, northeast Pacific, and northwest Pacific Ocean basins from 1951 to 2002.

The state is famous for having some of the highest rates in the country, in large part due to the high number of hurricanes that have struck the area and the amount of damage even a small hurricane can do.

Denniston noted that the variations over time in the numbers of flood events recorded by his stalagmites matched reconstructed numbers of hurricanes in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean.

The model's YGP predictions for current atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide agreed reasonably well with the actual number of hurricanes seen in a typical year.

Lest anyone see a greenhouse «fingerprint» in the larger number of hurricanes since 1975, 16 were «remants» of tropical storms.

As I read the Wiki list, the following number of hurricanes have affected New York: 6 before 1800; 23 from 1800 to 1899; 11 from 1900 to 1949; 15 from 1950 to 1974; 21 from 1975 to 1999; and 19 from 2000 to the present (including Sandy).

«Because we are in an active hurricane era, it's important to recognize that with a greater number of hurricanes comes increasing odds of one striking land.»

If we instead consider Atlantic basin hurricanes, rather than all Atlantic tropical storms, the result is similar: the reported numbers of hurricanes were sufficiently high during the 1860s - 1880s that again there is no significant positive trend in numbers beginning from that era (Figure 3, black curve, from CCSP 3.3 (2008)-RRB-.

Snow and rain on the west coast Unusually cold weather in Alaska Unusually warm weather in the rest of the USA Drought in the southwest Higher than normal number of hurricanes in the Atlantic

Hurricane season officially kicks off June 1, and forecasters expect the Atlantic Ocean will spawn a near - average number of hurricanes in 2016

This suggests that the annual number of hurricanes will continue to increase as a result of global warming, says Mann.

«I welcomed recent news analysis on the number of hurricane - related deaths, and that they may be higher than the official count certified to date,» Rosselló said in a statement.

The experts I spoke to all said there's no simple explanation for the number of hurricanes that can form in a given year.

That program was established by NOAA in 2009, in part as a response to the pummeling the U.S. received from a number of hurricanes during the early years of that decade and the relative lack of progress made in improving forecasts up to that point.

Although 2005 broke a record for the number of hurricanes, scientists do not know if it portends a pattern connected to global warming.

«Although we could see a decrease in the number of hurricanes globally, both the amount of rainfall from individual hurricanes and force of the storms are expected to increase as sea surface temperature has increased,» the site states.

Each December, six months before the start of hurricane season, the now 75 - year - old Gray and his team issue a long - range prediction of the number of major tropical storms that will arise in the Atlantic Ocean basin, as well as the number of hurricanes (with sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or more) and intense hurricanes (with winds of at least 111 mph).

The number of hurricanes hitting the United States has been going down, not up; likewise for intense tornadoes.

In contrast, the above article points out that ``... Whereas the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin tend to drop (~ 50 %) during El Nino years, the number of typhoons tend to increase in the Pacific.»

Natural changes like the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation as well as more familiar shifts like El Niño are responsible for some of the year - to - year fluctuations in the number of hurricanes.

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.

The number of tropical storms was below the 1981 - 2010 average of 12.1; the number of hurricanes was below the 1981 - 2010 average of 6.4; and the number of major hurricanes was near the 1981 - 2010 average of 2.7.

Construction was completed in 1989, though it cost several workers their lives due to a number of hurricanes in the area while work was underway.

Further, according to the Colorado State University forecast for the coming hurricane season (point 8), the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic is directly related to the strenght of the THC (but I suppose they point to the Gulf Stream part in this case), according to them: «Since 1995, the THC has been flowing more strongly, and there has been a concomitant increase in Atlantic major hurricanes in the tropical Atlantic.»

In contrast, the above article points out that ``... Whereas the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin tend to drop (~ 50 %) during El Nino years, the number of typhoons tend to increase in the Pacific.»

In the case of Atlantic hurricanes, the El Nino / Southern Oscillation tends to influence the vertical wind shear, and thus, in turn, the number of hurricanes that tend to form in a given year.

Whereas the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin tend to drop (~ 50 %) during El Niño years, the number of typhoons tend to increase in the Pacific.

In the meantime, statistical analysis by federal climate scientists points to a decline in the number of hurricanes making landfall in the United States since the mid 1800s.

Whether climate change will increase the number of hurricanes is fiercely debated in the research community.

By 2100 the number of hurricanes could drop by up to a third, but the average intensity of the storm could increase by as much as 11 %.

The number of hurricanes each season would likely remain the same or decrease, the overview determined.