The first hurricane of 2024 was named Beryl, but the first named storm was Alberto, which never reached hurricane status. Every tropical storm and hurricane that forms each year gets a predetermined name. How are names chosen? The names given to hurricanes are pretty much already set. There...
The United Nations even has theUnited Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, a group that recommends standards and guidelines for the sometimes-touchy task of what to call different places and features around the world. Weather takes its cue from geograp...
The typical "season" for hurricanes is shifting, as climate warming creates conditions conducive to storms in more months of the year. And hurricanes are also making landfall in regions far outside the historic norm. In the U.S., Florida sees the most hurricanes ...
The storm didn't have a name, because back then no one gave hurricanes names. Forecasting storms was more guesswork than science. Before racing through the Gulf on its way to Texas, it had hammered the Caribbean. The Weather Bureau, which at the time was responsible for issuing warnings of...
• Services that, in the opinion of Dell, are required due to improper treatment or use of the products or equipment. • Support for equipment damaged by act of nature (such as, but not limited to, lightning, flooding, tornado, earthquakes, and hurricanes), misuse, accident, abuse of ...
Most referred to weather- related events such as unusually hot or cold temperatures, hurricanes, and drought; but users also expressed non-weather adversities such as a poor economy, poor harvest of crops, and disruption to daily life. There were also tweets that did not mention specific ...
Floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, climate change, unplanned urbanization, and accelerated population growth are significant risks and vulnerabilities in the region, including the small island developing states in the Caribbean. Even though Latin America has not suf- fered any great or calamitous famines...
Internal wave and tide deposits are generally thought to be formed by the reworking of turbidity current deposits (Zhenzhong et al., 2013). This is a matter of debate in the literature, however, as the scale of their deposits is too small to be observed with conventional shipborne seafloor ...
Baxter had carried me through six homes, three states. Hurricanes, floods. The loss of a home, marriage, a brother, a mother. Life-changing medical diagnoses in the family, a pandemic. Now, I carriedhim.Up and down the two flights of stairs in the townhome I picked out for its sunny...
In most disasters, people come together, help each other, as we saw recently with Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. But in 1918, without leadership, without the truth, trust evaporated. And people looked after only themselves. In Philadelphia, the head of Emergency Aid pleaded, “All who are free...