Sentences with phrase «number of hurricanes in»

Let's say a magical monkey could predict the number of hurricanes in a given season accurately.

«Some have suggested cyclic changes in the overturning may be warming and cooling the whole North Atlantic over the course of several decades and affecting rainfall patterns across the US and Africa, and even the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic.»

In fact, recent studies predict that while climate change may not increase the number of hurricanes in general, it will increase the number of extremely intense ones.

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

Further, they make no claim to be able to detect the number of hurricanes in a season, or the intensity of a hurricane.

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 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.»

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.

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.»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

While the show has successfully taken on a number of issues important to the left in recent years, such as help for Puerto Rico following the devastating hurricane last year and warning against the prospect of a President Trump, the tactics used to respond to the Apu controversy largely came across as tone deaf.

These hurricanes disrupted normal airline flight operations, with the largest number of cancellations occurring the day after Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys, with 4,567 cancellations.

Stanley Holdorf, an NLG attorney, told me, «There are a sufficiently large number of discrepancies and inconsistencies to raise credible concerns about the veracity of TDCJ claims that these photos and video were, in fact, shot on a single day in hurricane - affected units post-Harvey.»

Here's one way to put the rising number of costly disasters in perspective: Nine of the 10 costliest Atlantic hurricanes (not including Harvey or Irma) have occurred since 2000.

Sosa confirmed that there were dozens of hurricane - related deaths the government had not yet accounted for and that the true number was likely in the hundreds.

But in fact, there's plenty of additional evidence to suggest that the number of people who died directly or indirectly from Hurricane Maria is in the hundreds, if not more than 1,000.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

In a separate tweet, Ventrice had the following troubling comment: «Wow, a number of ECMWF EPS members show a maximum - sustained windspeed of 180 + mph for #Irma, rivaling Hurricane #Allen (1980) for record wind»

But reporters with the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, for its initials in Spanish) in Puerto Rico said Thursday in a story in the Miami Herald they had «confirmed that there are dozens of hurricane - related deaths and the number could rise to the hundreds.»

For comparison, in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Texas state and county officials provided reporters with an updated number of casualties directly related to the storm daily.

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

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

Experts say that while the number of storms per year is steady, stronger hurricanes have increased in recent decades.

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

Christian contrasts the unbelievable 14,800 number of heat wave excess deaths in France with the overwhelming mobilization of assistance by churches for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

I've had a lot of success growing them in number of terra cotta pots, but the hurricane did a real number on my plants.

There were a number of cancelled games due to the hurricanes in the southeast: Miami - FL / Arkansas State, Florida / No Colorado, FSU / UL Monroe, UCF / Memphis, and USF / UConn.

There were a number of cancelled games due to the hurricanes in the...

There were an unusually high number of donations in those years because of Hurricane Sandy, officials said.

«Hurricane Irene caused the greatest number of power outages on Long Island — 523,000 outages at peak — since Hurricane Gloria in 1985.

Following Hurricane Katrina, Republicans argue, large numbers of black voters in the New Orleans area left the state, never to return.

New York officials are preparing for a rise in the number of Puerto Ricans relocating to the state, following back - to - back hurricanes that wiped out much of the U.S. territory's infrastructure.

Hurricane - force winds caused the highest total number of power outages in the area since 2003.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

These numbers are even more sobering when you consider that they only reflect our present risk and a small portion of the total amount of federal disaster assistance paid out in the nine states most at risk from Hurricane Joaquin.

Hurricane Katrina destroyed the habitat of breeding colonies in Louisiana's Pearl River Basin, for instance, but bird numbers held steady, researchers noted in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.

This is the greatest number of U.S. direct fatalities related to a tropical cyclone outside of the southern states since Hurricane Agnes in 1972.

Story number 2: We've had a string of hurricanes in the last few weeks, but last year's hurricane season was fairly quiet.

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

But a reduction in the number and intensity of large hurricanes driving ocean waters on shore — such as this month's Hurricane Joaquin, seen, which reached category 4 strength — may also play a role by cooling sea - surface temperatures that fuel the growth of these monster storms, the team notes.

Small ecosystems are more vulnerable to extinctions; their member species are fewer in number and have limited refuge, and so are at statistically greater risk of being eliminated by a single event, whether a hurricane or the introduction of a predatory snake.

The category 1 hurricane, later downgraded to a tropical storm as it approached New York City, made history for the numbers of people in its path — some 65 million — more than for the ferocity of its damage.

So, below are the records set by the most impressive North Atlantic hurricanes, since meteorologists began to name them more than half a century ago — as well as for storms in the Pacific Ocean, which actually rank number one in many of the categories.

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A group of climatologists at Georgia Tech claim that a rise in sea surface temperatures over the last 30 years is «directly linked» to increases in the number of intense hurricanes.

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.

NOAA evaluates the accuracy of its seasonal forecasts each year, with the aim of seeing the number of storms fall in the given ranges at least 70 percent of the time, which they do consistently, Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, said.