Number of Tropical Storms, Hurricanes Likely to Top NormMany hurricane forecasters are predicting another active seasonthis year.The 2012 Atlantic...Mann, Randy
Hurricane experts at Colorado State University have increased their numbers on tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic Basin this hurricane season, which began Thursday. The updated CSU Atlantic hurricane season outlook released Thursday calls for 15 named storms, an increase of two from its initial...
“Federal weather forecasters are predicting a 'near normal' number of storms this hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through November l. Between nine and 15 named storms are predicted to form in the Atlantic this year, ”said Neil Jacobs, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmosp...
forest fires such as those we have observed recently in Europe and North America. We have more water vapor in the atmosphere, which is worsening extreme rainfall and deadly flooding. The warming of the oceans has affected the frequency and area of existence of the most intense tropical storms....
The insurance industryis interested in five-year predictions of the number of Atlantic hurricanes which will make landfall in the United States. Here we describe a suite of models developed by Risk Management Solutions, Inc. to make such predictions. The
This study analyzes tropical cyclone interannual variability from 1984-2003. The variability of the total number of global storms with maximum winds greater than 17 m/s is found to be indistinguishable from the variability that would arise if the storms in each basin formed randomly in time with...
The year 2005 was certainly the biggest year for tropical storm and hurricane numbers in the Atlantic since the 1940s and, by some measures, the biggest for at least 150 years. There were so many tropical storms in 2005 that the U.S. National Hurricane Center ran out of tropical cyclone ...
The warming of the oceans has affected the frequency and area of existence of the most intense tropical storms.”“Economic losses are increasing as exposure increases. But behind the statistics lies a message of hope. Improved multi-hazard early warning systems have led to a significant reduction...
aHurricanes are violent tropical storms with sustained winds of at least 74 mph. They form over warm ocean waters – usually starting as storms in the Caribbean or off the west coast of Africa. As they drift slowly westward, they are fueled by the warm waters of the tropics. Warm, moist...
The Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment provides an ideal framework to study tropical heating given the large amount of data collected. During the experiment a number of two day waves, as well as two Madden-Julian Oscillations (MJOs), passed over the Intens...