Sentences with phrase «strong hurricane trends»

Accordingly, other scientists questioned the ability to detect strong hurricane trends.

Not exact matches

As we have discussed elsewhere on this site, statistical measures that focus on trends in the strongest category storms, maximum hurricane winds, and changes in minimum central pressures, suggest a systematic increase in the intensities of those storms that form.

Moreover, as each hurricane season is relatively short, it is especially susceptible to the caprices of «weather», i.e., a season may be strong or weak due to a particular weather pattern that is just a few weeks long and that does not reflect any long - term trend whatever.

To conclude — I will add that the investigators of the re-analysis project had the following conclusion for Cycles of hurricane activity: These records reflect the existence of cycles of hurricane activity, rather than trends toward more frequent or stronger hurricanes.

With respect to hurricane intensity, there are observed trends indicating this and model results predicting this, and while there are problems in each (data problems with hurricanes, coarse resolution in global models, etc.), theoretical arguments also make clear that there will be more energy and water vapor available in the atmosphere to cause more intense hurricanes, so a very strong case can be made for this happening.

The intensity of hurricanes and frequency of the strongest ones like Maria has also increased since the 1980s, a trend expected to continue as the planet warms.

But the point of the whole op - ed piece, as well as the Science paper, was that our recent history is, in fact, consistent with our current projections of long - term trends towards stronger hurricanes worldwide.

Recent studies suggest that the most intense Atlantic hurricanes have become stronger since the early 1980s.1 While this is still the subject of active research, this trend is projected to continue.2, 3

The new BAMS article shows persuasive evidence of a huge jump in category - 4 hurricanes 1970 - 2004, but declines or flat trends in the numbers of stronger and weaker hurricanes.

US residential markets affected by the particularly strong series of hurricanes in August and September are trending toward recovery.