In a sediment core from the Mar Menor (SE Spain), we discovered eight coarse - grained layers which document marine incursions during periods
of intense storm activity or tsunami events.
Montgomery, M. T., Bell, M. M., Aberson, S. D., Black, M. L., 2006: Hurricane Isabel (2003): New insight into the
physics of intense storms.
An 11 - year - old Hudson Valley girl was killed by a falling tree as a
line of intense storms rolled through the area.
He believes that a shift in the «Bermuda High,» a zone of strong atmospheric pressure in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, may propel the great
majority of intense storms toward either the Gulf coast or the Atlantic coast, but not both, for centuries at a time.
The northwest Pacific is typically the global hotbed of tropical cyclone activity (tropical cyclone being the blanket term for hurricanes and typhoons), and sees the largest
share of intense storms.
Some modelling studies have projected a decrease in the number of tropical cyclones globally due to the increased stability of the tropical troposphere in a warmer climate, characterised by fewer weak storms and greater
numbers of intense storms.
Whether warming worsens storms [still very difficult to determine whether global warming will increase the overall
frequency of intense storms (partly because these are difficult to resolve in current - generation climate models), but clear evidence has emerged of the increase in most intense category 4 - 5 hurricanes / cyclones / typhoons]
Aberson, S. D., Montgomery, M. T., Bell, Black, M. L., 2006: Hurricane Isabel (2003): New Insight into the
Physics of Intense Storms.
Most of these have been subject to rising sea levels, storm surges and frequency
of intense storms.