Sentences with phrase «strong hurricanes»

We weathered winter snowstorms, summer record heat, strong hurricanes and 500 - year floods.

This report, produced by The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® Research Division and Commissioned by The Florida Association of REALTORS ® in April 2006, examines how the exceptionally strong hurricanes along the Gulf Coast affected home sales and the economy.

Companies in Florence need business insurance that protects against property damage because occasional strong hurricanes around the gulf shores can deliver severe weather and damaging winds.

Even though Category 5 storms, which sustain catastrophic gusts that blow at 157 mph or higher, are extremely rare, scientists predict an increase in strong hurricanes with global warming.

As a person living on the west coast of Australia at longtitude 33 degree south, can anyone offer advice on whether I am more or less likely than in the past to have strong hurricanes (we call them cyclones) come this far south?

It's not going to stop if governments start paying attention to more important problems (e.g., making sure that no strong hurricanes hit any country).

Note also that the vulnerability of New Orleans to strong hurricanes is not that unusual for a populated area.

Through several more strong hurricanes, and even a vandal attack in the 1960s, the tree never stopped bearing fruit.

After holding fast through three strong hurricanes which battered the region in the first half of the 19th century, the tree became a cherished fixture; a fence was even put up to protect it.

Is somebody somewhere claiming that GW will lead to fewer or less strong hurricanes?

(As for the suggestion that 2004 was only the beginning, after hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, the number of strong hurricanes making landfall in the US promptly plunged.

Although the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and the strong hurricanes of 2005 continues to be debated, the events put a focus on efforts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

This result means more than a doubling of strong hurricanes for every °C of warming, similar to that of Grinsted et al. (2 — 7 times more Katrina - like events), though a bit lower.

As a caution, one of the four models examined (a respected model) predicts fewer strong hurricanes in a warmer world instead.

It is reasonable to theorize that some human contribution is responsible for the increase in strong hurricanes in the Atlantic since 1970, since this increase does correlate so well with the observed increase in sea surface temperatures.

Gray says the recent rash of strong hurricanes is just part of a cycle.

There appear to have been more strong hurricanes and cyclones in recent decades, Category 3 and higher — such as Katrina.

We will likely experience periods of strong hurricanes in the future, but any attempt to attribute hurricanes to global warming should be looked at with a jaundiced eye.

Over hundreds of years, strong hurricanes have deposited sediment over the barrier and into the pond where it has remained undisturbed.

«It's very dangerous to explain Rita or Katrina through global warming, because we have always had strong hurricanes in the USA - the strongest one on record dates back to 1935.»

In the past month, three unusually strong hurricanes devastated parts of the Caribbean, Texas, and Florida.

The two maps below, produced for the study by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton, are based on a climate model comparing the production of strong hurricanes in conditions mimicking the current climate (basically, average climate conditions from 1980 to 2006) with hurricane production in conditions simulating those projected for the final two decades of the century.

[5:19 p.m. Updated Below you can also read about new federal research concluding that strong hurricanes don't just pose a threat on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, but could threaten some of the thousands of miles of pipelines crisscrossing parts of the seabed in relatively shallow waters.]

An enduring conundrum at the heart of the global warming issue / challenge / crisis / emergency is that the dramatic facets that matter most to society — how fast and far seas will rise, how strong hurricanes may get, how many species will vanish — are the least certain.

Ken Robinson (# 28 of next topic) was correct in his remarks that US government scientists involved in predicting hurricanes are claiming natural cycles are solely responsible for the strong hurricanes in 2005.

But we have all been busy attributing the busy hurricane season (and strong hurricanes) to high SSTs.

If I remember correctly I have read a statement somewhere that there have bean an increase of strong hurricanes over the Atlantic, do you have any numbers of that?

Tornadoes, including very strong hurricanes, have always occurred and always will.

Most scientists expect the increase in the number of strong hurricanes as the climate warms to be at the expense of smaller ones, meaning fewer overall.

ref The number of strong hurricanes (category 4 and 5) increased by about 75 % since 1970 with largest increases observed in the North Pacific, Indian, and Southwest Pacific Oceans.

And islanders on Tuvalu are scrambling to find new homes as salt water intrusion has made their groundwater undrinkable while increasingly strong hurricanes and ocean swells have devastated shoreline structures.

Ribbons of sand and saltwater microorganisms in the sediments of an inlet point to six strong hurricanes in the last 1800 years, but none for 3000 years further back.

The researchers found that the proportion of rarer, strong hurricanes to commoner, weaker ones was always the same.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

But even those can be inadequate, when faced with an especially strong hurricane, like Irma.

The extent of the damage is unknown given that dozens of municipalities remained isolated and without communication after Maria hit the island Wednesday morning as a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years.

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

The perfect recipe for a strong hurricane includes warm ocean water and little wind shear.

If current projections hold true, Hurricane Harvey will be the strongest hurricane to strike the United States since Katrina, Rita, and Wilma hit in 2005.

Branson added, «We felt the full force of the strongest hurricane ever in the Atlantic Ocean.

It was the sixth - strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third - strongest hurricane on record that made landfall in the United States.

Matthew briefly reached the top classification, Category 5, becoming the strongest hurricane in the region since Felix in 2007.

And that means more numerous and stronger hurricanes in the foreseeable future, whether the forecast is from a computer model or a meteorologist's instincts.

But more data from this crucial region is needed to improve predictions of just how strong a hurricane might get.

«Fairly modest changes» can make a difference The strongest hurricane winds on the coast can reach 180 mph.

WARMER OCEANS, STRONGER HURRICANES, by Kevin E. Trenberth.

noted a skeptical Manny Diaz, former mayor of Miami, a coastal city even more at risk from the stronger hurricanes and sea level rise as a result of climate change.

Matthew is one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history and briefly reached the top classification, Category 5, becoming the strongest hurricane in the region since Felix in 2007.

Hurricane Patricia, the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, is plowing toward Mexico's west coast.

Almost half of the ACE during the 2015 was attributable to a single hurricane, Joaquin, which was the strongest hurricane of the season with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph (Category 4 strength) and a central minimum pressure of 931 mb.