Perfect Storms-How Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee Slammed NYStanne, Steve
The first tropical storm of 2024,Alberto, hit on June 19. As of Sept. 26, eight other named storms have formed in the Atlantic. Five of the season's storms have been hurricanes. What are hurricanes? Hurricanes are tropical cyclones. When a tropical cyclone's sustained winds reach 39 to ...
Experts believe islanders in the Caribbean started naming tropical cyclones during the 1800s, named for the particular saint's day on which the storm occurred,according to NOAA. In the U.S., storms used to be named by year and order in which they occurred. However, officials found that whe...
Ingredients are rarely perfect for a tropical system to develop. That’s why most of the systems we see in an average season are only short-lived tropical depressions or tropical storms. Even when conditions are favourable, the evolution from tropical de...
and forecasters said 2024 could bean "extremely active"year. The 2023 season was also above average, with 20 named storms and seven hurricanes. The first hurricane of 2024 was namedBeryl, but the first named storm was Alberto, which never reached hurricane status. Everytropical storm and hurric...
have been adjusted because there are more storms than in the past. For example, in an El Niño year, we would expect less tropical activity in the Atlantic Ocean, but by September of 2023, there had already been a greater level of activity than normal, due in part to rising sea surfac...
Most Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes pass through the area, and the Gulf Stream can cause quick, sometimes violent weather shifts. In the days before the development of modern weather forecasting, it's not hard to imagine ships being caught off guard [source: NOAA]. Waterspouts that ...
and coastal airports. More severe winds disrupt traffic, damage bridges and auxiliary infrastructure for road and rail, and make travel more dangerous for everyone. More intense tropical storms are increasing the yearly damage to infrastructure and vehicles, leading to widespread disruption to traffic,...
Indeed, damage from tropical storms results from several hazard drivers, including wind, storm surge, and rainfall2. We acknowledge several limitations of our approach, including the representation of urban forms with arrays of square obstructions as opposed to more organic forms, assumed uniformity ...
varied by region — a higher share (63 percent) of people in the West said that extreme heat has become more frequent in their area, while people in the Northeast were more likely to say that flooding (47 percent) or hurricanes and tropical storms (45 percent) have become more intense. ...