Sentences with phrase «of hurricane experts»
We recently updated the Hurricane Season Travel Tools to help hurricane travelers stay out of harm's way because the current consensus of hurricane experts is that the 2011 hurricane seasons looks to be more dangerous than usual.
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The increased cost at the pump is due to higher demand, the lingering effect of Hurricane Harvey, OPEC production cuts and unrest in the Middle East, according to experts.
Experts say it depends on several factors, including the cost and components of your trip, where you live and where you're headed, and what potential problems you're worried about (like that «extremely active» hurricane season).
«If there's increased transmission of mosquito - borne diseases [after the hurricanes], it'll be from West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis,» explained Duane Gubler, an expert on mosquito - borne diseases with Duke - NUS Medical School.
Hurricane Harvey fell from a Category 4 to Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it getHurricane Harvey fell from a Category 4 to Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it gethurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it gets better.
John Mutter, a disaster expert at Columbia University who studied the death toll in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, told Vox that he suspects the death toll in Puerto Rico from Maria will reach into the hundreds.
The experts I spoke to all said there's no simple explanation for the number of hurricanes that can form in a given year.
According to storm surge expert Dr. Hal Needham, Hurricane Donna also brought a storm tide of 4 - 8 feet in Biscayne Bay, just south of Miami, and we can expect that Irma might bring similar water levels.
Of this year's storm season, «it's explainable to some degree, and to another degree we simply don't know why it's been so crazy busy,» said Jeff Masters, a hurricane expert at Weather Underground, a popular weather website.
Experts say that while the number of storms per year is steady, stronger hurricanes have increased in recent decades.
The «Hurricane Harvey Recovery: How Donors Can Help» webinar on August 29, 2017, gathered several expert panelists to discuss catastrophic flooding in Texas and Louisiana, and how to allocate resources — human, financial, and technical — to meet the needs of Hurricane Harvey - affected communities.
Along with our family of more than 300 diaper banks throughout the country, NDBN is also providing expert guidance to individuals and communities asking how to help the children and families impacted by hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
«Kids are very intuitive and perceptive,» says child development and parenting expert Denise Daniels, who has helped children around the globe cope with losses as a result of tragedies such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.
Experts thought the recovery would take years, but their projections did not include Hurricane Maria and the collapse of the island's power grid.
My fellow Americans, as I speak to you right now the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is just hours away from being hit by Hurricane Maria, which the experts at the National Weather Service are describing as catastrophic.
The experts will train school staff on the island in psychological first aid so they can help students there still suffering emotionally in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Other experts say that the effect of hurricanes on global warming would probably be minimal as only the largest storms are expected to get stronger.
Scientific American asked Jennifer Collins, a hurricane expert and an associate professor of weather and climate at the University of South Florida School of Geosciences Tampa.
A group of risk experts is proposing a new framework and research agenda that they believe will support the most effective public warnings when a hurricane, wildfire, toxic chemical spill or any other environmental hazard threatens safety.
The experts agree that natural variability is largely to blame for the relative intensity of various hurricanes, but Holland and Webster note that the locations of such storms have changed.
Hurricane Maria's destruction on Puerto Rico could spawn one of the largest mass migration events in the United States» recent history, experts say, as tens of thousands of storm victims flee the island territory to rebuild their lives on the U.S. mainland.
He's now one of the leading experts in forecasting the Atlantic hurricane season.
The research by hydrologists and land - use experts at Rice University and Texas A&M University at Galveston was published in the journal Natural Hazards Review just days before Hurricane / Tropical Storm Harvey inundated the Houston region and caused some of the most catastrophic flooding in U.S. history.
Hurricane Katrina caused mass devastation and loss of life because recommendations to bolster the levees shielding New Orleans and other protective measures were neglected for decades despite urgent expert warnings, and because the federal emergency relief effort failed completely after the storm.
A confluence of factors, including abundant sinking air and dry air, and possibly dust flowing out of North Africa's Sahara desert, kept a lid on hurricane formation in 2013, according to many cyclone experts.
Regardless of the path, the hurricane could cause destruction to both coasts of Florida, said Bryan Norcross, a hurricane expert at the Weather Channel.
Recent advances have improved NOAA's intensity forecasts by 20 percent, but there are so many variables influencing the developing of a hurricane — from the energy they draw from the oceans to their interactions with the surrounding environment and their dynamic inner cores — that storms like Matthew befuddle many experts.
The reason for the quiet season is the stable air in the deep tropical parts of the basin that are «the best «bang for your buck» regions, so to speak, for getting strong typhoons,» hurricane expert Phil Klotzbach, of Colorado State University, said in an email.
Continued expert reaction to Hurricane Harvey including reports of an explosion at a chemical plant in Houston as a result of the flooding.
The professions of my participants were also diverse and included a surgeon, career educators, social justice activists, a FEMA rep (perfectly timed with Hurricane Irma a mere 400 miles away), an international finance expert, a former department of justice employee, lawyers, an actor / film - maker and producer, an occupational therapist, and of course a an actor and yoga teacher.
20th Century With Mike Wallace features interviews with survivors of hurricanes and with weather experts who predict what can be done to prevent these massive storms from repeating the same type of damage and destruction resulting from Andrew.
With Florida on the brink of another hurricane season, animal experts urge residents not to forget the four - legged members of the family.
For more information, or to speak with an AVMA expert about how the hurricane may affect the health and welfare of pets, livestock, and wildlife, contact Sharon Granskog, AVMA assistant director, media relations, at 847-280-1273 (cell), or [email protected].
For more information, or to speak with an AVMA expert about how the hurricane may affect the health and welfare of pets, livestock, and wildlife, contact Michael San Filippo, AVMA senior media relations specialist, at 847-285-6687 (office), 847-732-6194 (cell), or [email protected].
The «others» mentioned in «Gray, and others» are in fact highly qualified hurricane experts with substantial expertise and a significant history of publication in respected journals.
Oh dear, should have mentioned that experts are saying this is * not * a harbinger of a busy hurricane season.
That reminds me of the statement that 10 prominent climate and hurricane experts issued in 2006 (which I wrote on, but was hardly covered elsewhere).
This is a statement of fact that any hurricane expert would be aware of and it would not be debated.
Top hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel has now published a very good response to Pielke at FiveThirtyEight, making a number of the same points as I do above.
In 2005, leading hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel (MIT) published an analysis showing that the power of Atlantic hurricanes has strongly increased over the past decades, in step with temperature.
George Marshall, an expert on climate and communication, has just done that, in an important, if sobering, essay weighing the climate discourse around Hurricane Sandy against what he learned in recent interviews with a variety of people in Bastrop County, Texas, the suburban - exurban region east of Austin that experienced a stunning outbreak of wildfires in September 2011.
For the Central and North American region, many hurricane experts think there is a loose fitting 30 year cycle (i.e., 30 years of higher intensity followed by 30 years of lower intensity), based upon data going back to 1870.
I understand the effect of this on hurricanes is minimal, but maybe some of the experts that we are lucky enough to have here can clarify this.
«We didn't want to just build barriers; we wanted to build an ecosystem,» said Henk Ovink, a Dutch water - management expert who now serves as a senior adviser to the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, a group within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has earmarked billions for the program.
Check out the resident hurricane expert for an example of what reasoning on the basis of Kendall gets you.
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And here again Trenberth has hyped global warming links to hurricane destruction in contrast to the opinions of many the hurricane experts.
But despite not being a hurricane expert himself, Trenberth has been grandstanding for a decade to push a climate of fear.
Nor is it merely that Maria, probably the most destructive hurricane in the island's history, is the kind of event that climate change experts have long warned would be among the risks facing coastal areas as the planet warms.
As the northeast coast mourns and struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the U.S. death toll nears 100 and experts estimate up to $ 20 billion in total insured damages.