Sentences with phrase «unusually high hurricane»

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There were an unusually high number of donations in those years because of Hurricane Sandy, officials said.

And a large majority of Americans believe that global warming made several high profile extreme weather events worse, including record high summer temperatures nationwide, droughts in Texas and Oklahoma, catastrophic Mississippi River flooding, Hurricane Irene and an unusually warm winter.

According to Jeff Masters at the Weather Underground, the unusually strong ridge of high pressure that steered so many hurricanes to the US in 2004 and 2005 was formed in response to a strong warming of the ocean in the central North Pacific.

We might expect the minima reached in the next cycle to be higher than the minima in the last cycle, but it is important to stress this complexity otherwise people will accuse scientists of crying wolf when the 2030s are «unusually» quiet in terms of hurricane frequency.