Sentences with phrase «total number of hurricanes»

Wang says the number of those hurricanes actually hitting the United States is a much better indicator than the total number of hurricanes.

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Hurricane - force winds caused the highest total number of power outages in the area since 2003.

These numbers are even more sobering when you consider that they only reflect our present risk and a small portion of the total amount of federal disaster assistance paid out in the nine states most at risk from Hurricane Joaquin.

These relationships have been reinforced by findings of a large increase in numbers and proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 and 5 globally since 1970 even as total number of cyclones and cyclone days decreased slightly in most basins.