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The National Hurricane Center declared Helene a hurricane Wednesday morning, likely to strengthen as it moves over the Gulf of Mexico over the next day. By Thursday night, the storm is slated to ...
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has come to an end, and it brought a number of particularly damaging storms. Climate change is not thought to increase the number of hurricanes, typhoons and ...
Storms that form over the Atlantic Ocean or central and eastern North Pacific are called "hurricanes" when their wind speeds reach at least 74 miles per hour (119 kilometers per hour). Up to that ...
On rare occasions, such as Pablo in 2019, Alex in 2004, [32] Alberto in 1988, [33] and the 1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane, [34] storms may form or strengthen in this region. Typically, tropical cyclones will undergo extratropical transition after recurving polewards, and typically become fully extratropical after reaching 45–50° of latitude.
The destruction from early 21st century Atlantic Ocean hurricanes, such as Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and Sandy, caused a substantial upsurge in interest in the subject of climate change and hurricanes by news media and the wider public, and concerns that global climatic change may have played a significant role in those events. In 2005 and ...
While many of these storms form in the Atlantic basin, some systems or their remnants move through Mexico from the Eastern Pacific basin. The average storm total rainfall for a tropical cyclone impacting the lower 48 from the Atlantic basin is about 16 inches (410 mm), with 70–75 percent of the storm total falling within a 24-hour period.
Tropical cyclones with maximum sustained winds between 65 mph (105 km/h) and 100 mph (160 km/h) can have their center of circulations obscured by cloudiness within visible and infrared satellite imagery, which makes diagnosis of their intensity a challenge. [13]
Debby landed as a hurricane and became a tropical storm; here's what makes the difference. Since hurricanes need water around 80 degrees Fahrenheit to form, one might suspect that warming ...