However, as of late September, the bumper crop of tropical storms forecast has yet to appear. This may be in part because of an unusual monsoon season in Africa. The monsoon normally causes warm waves off Senegal and Gambia that fuel hurricanes. This year, themonsoon has hit further north,...
I remember watching a BBC science programme and hearing a learned professor with a beard tell us, “The increased frequency and strength of hurricanes is what we shall have to learn to expect given global warming.” This year there have been far fewer hurricanes and those there have been were...
According to NOAA, global tropical cyclone activity matched the long-term record with 12 named storms this year. The Atlantic saw three hurricanes in November, including Rafael, which peaked as a Category 3 storm. Global sea ice area was the second smallest in 46 years and more than one...
— On voters’ response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton:“Voters are seeing this extreme weather is made so much worse by climate change, and that we have two very different rooted visions on the table. ... This administration [Harris is] a part of is doing a phenome...
Hurricane season is typically June 1 until November 30. NOAA’sClimate Prediction Centerpredicts “above-normal” hurricane activity for 2024. The Center estimates the Atlantic basin could experience eight to 13 hurricanes this year, with four to seven becoming major hurricanes. ...
To understand why spaghetti plots are important, you have to understand that there are a whole bunch of different modeling methods that are used to track hurricanes, and like presidential election polls, they don't all produce the same results. The object of creating such a map, according to...
This material is partially liquid, partially solid and partially gaseous. To understand where it comes from, we need to consider the structure of planet Earth. The earth is composed of many layers, roughly divided into three mega-layers: the core, the mantle and the outer crust: We all ...
Why Do Hurricanes Have Names? Why do we bestow people’s names on volatile storms in the first place? Read more The 'Bowl Effect' I Was There: Hurricane Katrina: Rescue Swimmer Fears about flooding go all the way back to the founding of New Orleans on land in 1717, by the French-Cana...
This was vastly higher than the previous month, but October had been abnormally low due to unexpected events like hurricanes. Rising unemployment was the more notable metric, bolstering the case for lower interest rates. » MORE: How mortgage rates are determined Do mortgage rates follow Fed ...
The earth is in the vast universe, the only planet to harbor life, originally the earth is green hills and water, a piece is abundant, but todays earth after hurricanes, forest fires and drought in high temperature, is about to collapse, the earth began to shout for us, in the 20xx ...