Sentences with phrase «number of storms»

But that does not guarantee that we will definitely see an increased number of storms in the future.

Those percentages translate to the ranges of numbers of storms expected at different strengths.

The relationships of these shifts provide a thermodynamic explanation for increasing or decreasing numbers of storms.

Although the overall number of storms in the region are expected to drop, the number of strong ones — those reaching Category 4 or 5 in the hurricane index — are expected to double from the number produced now, the study says.

In the abstract this article reports: «However, the global total number of storm days shows no trend and only an unexpected large amplitude fluctuation driven by El Niño - Southern Oscillation and PDO.

Even with few catastrophes the total losses in Kentucky show how much damage is caused by even a small number of storms.

Diseases borne of drinking unfiltered water are likely to spread, and an unknown number of storm victims have no access to food.

Had they had those measurements we probably would have had a comparable number of storms that year.»

To get an exceptional number of storms you only have to be on the right side of a high pressure zone that herds the storms into a narrow path.

The scant number of storms is surprising given some of the favorable conditions that exist that would normally fuel tropical cyclones.

The Northwest Pacific basin has a significant number of storms forming in all months.

Year in and year out, decade after decade, every location would get the same rain it got the year before and the decade before, the same number of storms, the same number of tornadoes, the same start date for Spring, etc..

August 8, 2006 With the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season upon us, experts from NOAA are reiterating their prediction for an above - normal number of storms.

However, the density of reporting ship traffic over the Atlantic was relatively sparse during the early decades of this record, such that if storms from the modern era (post 1965) had hypothetically occurred during those earlier decades, a substantial number of storms would likely not have been directly observed by the ship - based «observing network of opportunity.»

Clinton sees a high number of storms, high winds, strong rain and tornadoes, so make sure you're covered against them all and the damage they can cause.

«During this period, the conditions in the oceans and the atmosphere have produced a larger number of storms and more powerful hurricanes.»

The relationships of these shifts provide a thermodynamic explanation for increasing or decreasing numbers of storms.

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.

That trend is likely to continue and scientists project that it could help increase the number of intense hurricanes while possibly reducing the overall number of all storms.

Even with few such events, the total losses in Kentucky show how much damage can be caused by even a small number of storms.

When discussing the possibility of more storms like Harvey, Erickson made a distinction between the number of storms that actually form and how many of those storms end up making landfall.

There are a lot of ways to measure the severity of a hurricane season: You can look at the number of storms, the number of days with at least one active hurricane, and a measure called «accumulated cyclone energy» (a measure of wind speeds accumulating over time).

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

Critics note that although there has been an increase in the number of storms since 1995, the effects of Atlantic currents, rather than climate change, could be responsible.

That may explain the number of storms, but it doesn't predict where they'll strike.

Knutson suspects that storm data from the 1800s, based on landfalls and ship logs describing storms at sea, appear to have undercounted the number of storms.

A new analysis suggests that such «geoengineering» might also reduce the number of storm surges as big as the one that swamped New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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.

Its author, Charles Kerpelman, says the number of storms and other potentially disastrous events has probably remained constant, but the world's growing population means the chances of large numbers of people being killed, or of serious economic damage, have increased.

Rainfall and the number of storms per breeding season have already increased at the Argentine study site, said Ginger Rebstock, UW research scientist and the co-author of the paper.

For instance in the first two weeks of December, when all chicks are less than 25 days old and most vulnerable to storm death, the number of storms increased between 1983 and 2010.

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.

This measure, which takes account of temperature, humidity and dynamic factors, has proved a good guide to the number of storms spotted by satellites each year.

Over the course of the study, the number of storms during the nesting season increased.

Also, climate models predict the number of storms during the first 2 weeks of December, when chicks are most vulnerable, will roughly double by 2081.

In fact, scientists have found that the frequency of North Atlantic hurricanes has increased since the early 1980s, as well as the number of storms that reach categories 4 and 5.

«It is difficult to detect trends in rainfall, because the number of storms and the amount of rain in individual storms both vary so much from year to year.

As the traditional peak of the Atlantic hurricane season nears, forecasters have slightly increased the number of storms they expect to see this year.

At the moment we can't say how all the different factors will combine to increase or decrease the number of storms we see.»

As the climate changes, tropical cyclones are expected to produce more rain and the frequency of the highest intensity storms is projected to increase even though the overall number of storms may remain unchanged or perhaps even decrease.

For her she can learn a lot from him as he is experienced and has weathered a number of storms to reach where he is today.

Pets weren't allowed in the New Orleans Superdome and other emergency shelters — a rule that many observers believe may have contributed to the number of storm - related deaths and injuries, as pet owners refused to abandon their animals.

It turned out to be an average year for the number of storms.