Sentences with phrase «predicting hurricane damage»

Until recently, insurers were convinced that their calculations for predicting hurricane damage - known as «catastrophe models» - were accurate.

«We should use central pressure deficit, not wind speed, to predict hurricane damage.»

Not exact matches

With this sort of exposure in Naples alone, we can expect damage from Irma in Florida alone to be in the tens of billions if the hurricane hits SW Florida as a Category 4 storm as predicted.

Cuomo says he does not want to scare people, but he says there is concern that the storm predicted for Wednesday and Thursday could be potentially significant, and he says there are worries that debris that still litters many streets and yards from Hurricane Sandy could become projectiles in high winds, and that already damaged homes could be further effected.

But if, as many climate scientists predict, hurricanes become more common or more severe, the added forest damage that will occur in the US and elsewhere could reduce that offset substantially.

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.

When the Category 3 storm known as Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast early on August 29, 2005, I don't think anyone could have predicted the massive flooding and damage and the hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama who became temporarily or permanently homeless.

While many studies of the effects of global warming on hurricanes predict an increase in various metrics of Atlantic basin - wide activity, it is less clear that this signal will emerge from background noise in measures of hurricane damage, which depend largely on rare, high - intensity landfalling events and are thus highly volatile compared to basin - wide storm metrics.

As to the projected decline in hurricane damage as a fraction of GDP, an even casual reading of the relevant paper shows that while actual damage is predicted to increase in most places, GDP is forecast to go up even faster, so that the ratio declines.

It's impossible to predict in advance how much damage this year's hurricanes and tropical storms might cause, since their intensity and path can change by the hour.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 26, 2012 — Hurricane Sandy is predicted to make landfall this weekend and could potentially cause billions of dollars in damage to some of America's most populated cities.