Only a fraction of its residents have returned, and many never will. By the last count, more than a thousand New Orleanians died in the disaster. The sad truth is that we have already lost New Orleans. Whatever replaces it will not be the same. The city is history.1...
Year to year, it's hard to predict how bad ahurricane seasonwill be. But scientists sayclimate changeis making hurricanes worse, specifically when it comes to how destructive they are when hitting land. Dr. Kristen Corbosiero is Associate Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at th...
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oceans and away from the shearing impact of the jet streams — the west-to-east bands of wind that circle the planet. Earth’s rotation causes clusters of thunderstorms to aggregate and spin up to form the vortices that become tropical cyclones. Other mechanisms of hurricane formation also ...
Again after mid-September, most storms begin in the western Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. In an average year, more than 100 disturbances with hurricane potential are observed in the Atlantic, Gulf, and Caribbean; on average, only 10 of these reach the tropical storm stage, and only about ...
The present means by which flood risk is managed globally is predicated on the assumption that history is a good predictor of the future. Be it enforcing regulations within flood zones defined using historical water-level records, modelling the cost–benefit ratio of mitigatory actions on the bas...
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2 Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating(毁灭性的) tragedies in American history. Since our was given prominent media exposure, we thousands of calls per day. I spoke with countless victims who were trying to locate family members lost in the flood. They all needed with housing, ...
•Beryl is a dangerous hurricane:The storm was located 510 miles east-southeast of Isla Beata in the Dominican Republic, had sustained winds of 160 mph and was moving to the west-northwest at 22 mph as of Monday evening. Beryl’s hurricane-force winds extend 40 miles from center while tr...