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The NOAA is predicting this years hurricane season to be an active one.

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«Although this year hasn't been perfect, especially with the recent devastating hurricanes, we believe that a longer shopping season and strong consumer confidence will deliver retailers a strong holiday season,» NRF Chief Executive Matthew Shay said in prepared remarks.

Within a few years, Intrade amassed 25,000 users willing to wager money on whether Osama Bin Laden would be captured, the strength of the upcoming hurricane season in the U.S., or more mundane matters such as the Nasdaq close.

Although disasters happen year - round, spring represents an excellent opportunity to think through your disaster plan, with tornado and hurricane seasons on the horizon.

We're at the peak of hurricane season, where the Atlantic waters are the hottest they get for the entire year.

One explanation for why the season is so active is that all of the components that make hurricanes are near ideal conditions: The ocean waters are at their warmest they get all year (and are somewhat hotter than usual).

But health officials are warning about the much longer - term health fallout from this year's hurricane season.

AUSTIN — A trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season led to the costliest year for natural disasters on record in the U.S. in 2017, with nearly a third of a trillion dollars in damage,...

In 2017, the U.S. endured its costliest year for weather and climate disasters on record because of a trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season.

AUSTIN — A trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season led to the costliest year for natural disasters on record in the U.S. in 2017, with nearly a third of a trillion dollars in damage, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday.

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Once volume starts to rev up, we may see the sweet spot of the historically strong mid-term election year rally, which typically starts in late September, so I remain confident that we'll ride through this market «hurricane season» into a stronger fourth quarter.

Overall, hurricanes this time of year aren't really unusual: We're now right at the climatological peak of the six - month Atlantic hurricane season.

By LEWIS JOHNSON — Co-Chief Investment Officer October 5, 2016 This year's Atlantic hurricane season has brought a sad but inevitable end to our welcome stretch of hurricane free living here in the States.

This year's brutal hurricane season has given us a multitude of opportunities to reduce risks for the next inevitable brutal season, whenever it comes.

Of this year's storm season, «it's explainable to some degree, and to another degree we simply don't know why it's been so crazy busy,» said Jeff Masters, a hurricane expert at Weather Underground, a popular weather website.

The brutal 2017 hurricane season is far from over, but already there are signs that next year could be a bad one as well.

This year's extreme hurricane season proved disruptive to southern brick - and - mortar businesses, damaging some locations and forcing temporary closures of others.

While ratings are down overall, other factors — news coverage of the election cycle last year and of hurricane devastation early this season, viewers cutting the cord, and excessive commercials and game delays — are also key reasons for the decline.

The U.S. federal agency tasked with restoring electricity to Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria hit the Caribbean last year, is leaving the island though thousands still have no power heading into the next hurricane season starting neHurricane Maria hit the Caribbean last year, is leaving the island though thousands still have no power heading into the next hurricane season starting nehurricane season starting next month.

With Hurricane Maria still smashing up Puerto Rico, the economic costs of this year's hurricane season continue to grow by thHurricane Maria still smashing up Puerto Rico, the economic costs of this year's hurricane season continue to grow by thhurricane season continue to grow by the minute.

NEW YORK, NY — With a busy 2017 Atlantic hurricane season still in progress, Con Edison's $ 1 billion storm hardening fortifications continue to hold strong five years after Hurricane Sandy unleashed the hardest hit of electric outages in hurricane season still in progress, Con Edison's $ 1 billion storm hardening fortifications continue to hold strong five years after Hurricane Sandy unleashed the hardest hit of electric outages in Hurricane Sandy unleashed the hardest hit of electric outages in the compa

This year's Atlantic hurricane season will be «above normal,» with 12 to 18 storms, thanks in part to unusually warm ocean temperatures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said yesterday.

Although every day of the year, somewhere on this planet, it is hurricane season, only when a set of unique conditions come together do hurricanes actually form.

Gray's team will come out with its latest forecast for this year's hurricane season at the end of this week, having previously predicted 17 storms this season.

Like hurricanes in the Atlantic, solar flares have a season: the two - to - three - year period of the solar cycle when the sun is most active.

The Pacific Ocean is likely to enter a La Niña state in the next few months, which could mean a more active Atlantic hurricane season next year

Western governments that have historic ties to the Caribbean have been slow to offer relief after this year's hurricane season.

Ronald Sanders, the U.S. ambassador for Antigua and Barbuda, says islands should take a more aggressive tone in Bonn after this year's damaging hurricane season.

In the wake of the devastating 2005 season (the year of Katrina and Wilma), scientists have been ramping up their efforts to understand how hurricanes develop and move.

, the fourth storm of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, churns offshore in this satellite image taken on August 26.

Story number 2: We've had a string of hurricanes in the last few weeks, but last year's hurricane season was fairly quiet.

Each year, hurricane season brings a series of these enormous storms marching across the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans, but that is the only truly predictable thing about them.

With everyone from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Columbia University scientists predicting that this year's hurricane season will be more active than normal, Alex is likely to foreshadow disruptions to come.

Thanks to a relatively quiet Atlantic hurricane season, damage caused by extreme weather was actually lower in 2011 than in four of the previous five years.

As this year's hurricane season opens, about the only thing the weather experts can agree on is that Hurricane Katrinahurricane season opens, about the only thing the weather experts can agree on is that Hurricane KatrinaHurricane Katrina was bad.

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout, marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a minor Category 1 hurricane.

Less than a year after Hurricane Matthew raked the East Coast, killing 34 people and causing $ 10 billion in damage in the U.S. alone, coastal areas are once again preparing for the onset of the Atlantic hurricanHurricane Matthew raked the East Coast, killing 34 people and causing $ 10 billion in damage in the U.S. alone, coastal areas are once again preparing for the onset of the Atlantic hurricanehurricane season.

It has been a record - setting 12 years since a major hurricane made landfall on the U.S. coast; the last to do so was Hurricane Wilma during the blockbuster 200hurricane made landfall on the U.S. coast; the last to do so was Hurricane Wilma during the blockbuster 200Hurricane Wilma during the blockbuster 2005 season.

Webster is now studying the duration of the hurricane season each year, from the first tropical cyclone to the last.

El Niño conditions can also curb the formation of powerful storms, and with no El Niño in the picture in 2017 — and with warmer - than - average ocean waters — last year's Atlantic hurricane season was unusually active.

So he sexes up his narrative by presenting it as a battle between the «short, professorial looking» Emanuel, a «nuanced and sophisticated» man who talks in complete sentences, and the obdurate William Gray of Colorado State University, «a towering figure of American hurricane science,» who has for many years produced remarkably accurate forecasts of the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season and who repeatedly and loudly denies — in congressional hearings and everywhere else — that humans have any role in climate change.

Yet the danger of extrapolating from a single catastrophic season became clear in 2006, an unusually quiet year for Atlantic hurricanes.

There were two short - lived Category 1 hurricanes this year, making it the first Atlantic season since 1968 when no storm made it beyond the first level of intensity, according to the National Hurricane Center.

MIAMI (Reuters)- The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout, marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a minor Category 1 hurricane.

This year's Atlantic hurricane season was off the charts by nearly every measure, and new climate modeling suggests that New York City may be headed for weather that could make superstorm Sandy look routine.

With last year's hurricane season so active, and this year's looking like it will be, won't people say it's evidence of global warming?

Each December, six months before the start of hurricane season, the now 75 - year - old Gray and his team issue a long - range prediction of the number of major tropical storms that will arise in the Atlantic Ocean basin, as well as the number of hurricanes (with sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or more) and intense hurricanes (with winds of at least 111 mph).

And signs are things will get worse before they get better: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting that this year's hurricane season — which officially began June 1 — will be «very active,» with three to five major hurricanes in the Atlantic.

In the Gulf of Mexico, buoy data from the peak of hurricane season — August through October — shows waters have warmed 1 - 2 °F in the past 40 years alone.