Chunzai Wang of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has performed a very interesting data-based analysis of Atlantic hurricane tracks showing that increasing the area of warm water results in a significant lowering of the likelihood that a storm will strike the U.S., something that should happen with continued oceanic warming.
The site records the wind strength of hurricane and tropical storm winds, and strike probabilities.
The Category 4 storm is expected to strike near Galveston, Texas, early Saturday.
Dr Landsea then asked, for each of the century's big storms, what would happen if an identical storm with an identical track were to strike today?
"There doesn't have to be rainfall for lightning to strike, and when a storm is past it can still be dangerous, " the South African Press Association quotes him as saying.
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Northeast lawmakers said the money is urgently needed to start rebuilding homes, businesses, public transportation facilities and other infrastructure damaged by the Oct. 29 storm, one of the worst to strike the Northeast.
Lawmakers say the money is urgently needed to start rebuilding homes, businesses, public transportation facilities and other infrastructure damaged by the Oct. 29 storm, one of the worst ever to strike the Northeast.
If the gathering economic challenges strike all at once in a perfect storm, these families, America's families, will be the hardest hit.
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Gustav lost strength in the Hispaniola strike, falling back to tropical-storm status, but the hurricane center predicted that Gustav would regain strength, cross Jamaica and become a hurricane again Friday.
In 1991, I deployed with USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) as the Strike Group Air Operations Officer for Operation Desert Storm.
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Despite US condemnation at the time, the US later acknowledged that the strike was a necessary precondition to the success of Operation Desert Storm ten years later.
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As Hurricane Sandy prepared to strike the Northeast, climate scientists from alarmist and skeptical camps alike reported the storm had little if anything to do with global warming.
It was a flame that spearheaded one of the greatest open desert battles in Desert Shield and Desert Storm and led the way as those rockets and missiles from Apaches and MLRS and our strike forces went across and defeated what was supposed to be the mother of all battles.
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