The question of whether and to what extent global warming may be changing tropical cyclone (TC) activity is of great interest to decision makers. The prese
What is a typhoon? lavizzara // Shutterstock What is a typhoon? A tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific Ocean is called a typhoon. The same kind of storm in the Atlantic Ocean is called a hurricane. Typhoons only have two classifications, whereas hurricanes have five. What is the mo...
What is a typhoon? A tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific Ocean is called a typhoon. The same kind of storm in the Atlantic Ocean is called a hurricane. Typhoons only have two classifications, whereas hurricanes have five. What is the most dangerous kind of tornado? LeStudio // Shut...
Global ‘Stilling’: Is Climate Change Slowing Down the Wind? https://e360.yale.edu/features/global-stilling-is-climate-change-slowing-the-worlds-wind How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-homes-insurance-housing-rent-mortgage Ancient ...
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 names; by late in the hurricane season, they resorted to calling tropical storms by letters of the Greek alphabet. It is of considerable intere...
Before the satellite era tropical storms not making landfall were seldom named because they could easily go unnoticed. This is why hurricanes making landfall in the US of A are important for century scale histories. They are extremely well documented. If not by scientists, then by insurance ...
Have you ever wanted to ride the scariest roller coaster in all of New York State? Take a ride on the Coney Island Cyclone. Get our free mobile app TheConey Island Cycloneis a wooden roller coaster at Luna Park in Coney Island. For those that don't know, Coney Island is located in ...
The National Weather Service lists Hurricane Harvey as the record-holder for the wettest tropical cyclone after it dumped more than 60 inches of rain. And according to research from the science journal Earth's Future, ocean heat values were at their highest on record globally and in the Gulf ...
We took showers + hit the streets to find food but everything was dead. The pier now has a restaurant on it + the lake is so low you can barely see it from the old shore. We ended up, after much walking about, at the place near the plaza that used to have pozole but has since...
I think about your house, and how upset your father is about the fires. It’s heart breaking when your home gets destroyed by natural disaster. It could be that there wasn’t any insurance or that insurance didn’t cover the flood. That is why they had to abandon it, that there is ...