• It was also the third-strongest Atlantic hurricane at landfall ever recorded, just behind the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and Dorian. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was also the most intense hurricane to strike the continental United States since Katrina in 2005, the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in the same year, and the first Category 4 hurricane to strike the state since Charley in 2004. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another eyewall replacement cycle caused Irma to weaken back to a Category 4 hurricane, but the storm re-attained Category 5 status before making landfall in Cuba. (wikipedia.org)
  • This estimate includes wind, storm surge, and inland flood losses across only the impacted Gulf states in the landfall region - Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi - based on analysis of RMS ensemble footprints in Version 21 of the RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models and estimates from the RMS U.S. Inland Flood HD Model. (haggiepartners.com)
  • Ida was near Category 5 intensity at its landfall and remained for six hours at Category 4 intensity moving inland. (haggiepartners.com)
  • Hurricane Andrew's landfall in Florida in 1992 changed the face of property catastrophe insurance and kick-started many new initiatives, including the development of hurricane risk modeling. (rms.com)
  • The ninth named tropical storm of the current North Atlantic hurricane season, Major Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 4 (Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Windscale) major hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida at 19:05 UTC (15:05 Eastern Time ET) on Wednesday, September 28. (rms.com)
  • 1 Hurricane Sally rapidly intensified shortly before making landfall on September 16, 2020, as a slow-moving Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds, dumping 20 to 30 inches of rainfall along hard-hit communities in western Florida and coastal Alabama. (americanprogress.org)
  • 3 Yet the 2020 hurricane season represents uncharted territory, as storms are expected to continue making landfall in communities that are still struggling to contain COVID-19 outbreaks, maintain social distancing, and weather the historic pandemic-induced economic downturn-all amid a national reckoning with racial oppression and resource disparities in Black communities and other communities of color. (americanprogress.org)
  • Most global models call for a landfall over the Carolinas as a major hurricane. (rms.com)
  • On September 20, 2017, the Category 5 Hurricane Maria made landfall on the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Increased sea levels lead to larger storm surge capacity as hurricanes and storms make landfall. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For Central America and the Caribbean, the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has been particularly active, with the largest number of named storms on record and a record number making landfall. (insuresilience.org)
  • However, with significant exposure growth, the impact of social inflation, and climate change complications, the insurance market could struggle to respond to a repeat of Andrew. (rms.com)
  • We have the clearest evidence to date that the Gulf Stream is weakening and may ultimately collapse, with catastrophic implications for the marine life of the Atlantic and the global climate. (counterpunch.org)
  • Besides climate, the cost of claims is also rising in response to the higher costs of building materials and the cost of labor in the construction industry. (iwins.com)
  • As climate change increases the intensity and (possibly) the frequency of major coastal storms, what will be the economic consequences? (motherjones.com)
  • As the United States struggles to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, federal, state, and local governments must prepare communities for an extremely active hurricane season fueled by climate change, as well as support resilient and equitable rebuilding in the wake of disasters. (americanprogress.org)
  • and the onset of an unusually active hurricane season-caused by warmer ocean temperatures that are fueled by climate change-that continues to break storm formation records. (americanprogress.org)
  • Exposure plus vulnerability plus climate change is supercharging more of these into billion-dollar disasters," Smith said. (wgntv.com)
  • China, which has already met its 2020 target for carbon intensity , and the EU, which has met its 2020 emissions reduction target, also renewed their commitment to create a mechanism to transfer $100 billion a year from richer to poorer nations to assist them with climate change adaptation. (duke.edu)
  • Coming immediately after Hurricane Harvey, Irma is increasing attention to the relationship of severe weather events to climate change. (duke.edu)
  • Throughout the past few decades , hurricanes in particular have drawn attention to the need to fight climate change, with scientists recognizing that although climate change is not the cause of hurricanes, "a warmer planet will produce bigger and more destructive hurricanes. (duke.edu)
  • The spatial and temporal patterns of the VNCU were mainly driven by the post-eruption climate and moderated by the negative phase trends of El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation. (bvsalud.org)
  • Lisbon and its wider Metropolitan Area is a typical Mediterranean coastal city in terms of vulnerability to extreme climate events, but its location by the Atlantic Ocean adds further exposure to climate hazards. (provide-h2020.eu)
  • The Bahamas has high levels of exposure to climate hazards, including increased intensity of tropical cyclones, more intense and extended marine heat waves, rising sea levels, extreme wave heights, increased rainfall intensity and prolonged periods of drought. (provide-h2020.eu)
  • In 2022 there were at least 28 significant climate events, including damaging wildfires across the contiguous United States, record-breaking rainfall in Pakistan which affected 30 million people, destructive typhoons in the Western Pacific and devastating hurricanes in the Eastern North Pacific. (infrastructurenews.co.za)
  • We've also seen some large insurers draw hard lines in the sand to not insure properties susceptible to the impact of climate change, for example, those that are close to a shoreline (like along the Atlantic Seaboard), within a flood basin (as in the KZN South Coast), or in areas that are at high risk of veld and forest fires, such as in Knysna. (infrastructurenews.co.za)
  • However, there have been a lesser focus on the potential indirect effects of climate change on human health through the increased frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events, such as hurricanes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • What does climate change have to do with the increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes? (biomedcentral.com)
  • The intensity of these hurricanes then combine with the increased storm surge due to climate change, causing devastating results. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Dorian, Barry, Florence - these and other recent hurricanes have wreaked havoc on communities across the United States, and human-induced climate change is only increasing the likelihood of destruction from such storms. (sciline.org)
  • I want to say, first, that I know it's hardly news at this point that human-induced climate change is causing hurricanes to grow stronger and more destructive. (sciline.org)
  • We've all heard about the clear scientific evidence, for example, that, thanks in large part to climate change, hurricanes are producing heavier rain, their storm surges are riding atop higher sea levels, and in many cases, they're lingering longer over land, causing increased flooding and infrastructure destruction. (sciline.org)
  • We also know that more than 90% of the excess heat trapped in the climate system from human-caused global warming has gone into the oceans, providing the added energy that's driving recent hurricanes' extreme wind intensities and also contributing to the evaporation that, in turn, has been leading to record-breaking torrential rainfall. (sciline.org)
  • But we're here today to go beyond the story of climate change and hurricanes and look at a few hurricane science-related challenges that have been, I think, a little bit less closely covered but we think are deserving of attention given the likelihood that strong hurricanes are going to be a bigger part of our future. (sciline.org)
  • The effects of disasters, some of which have increased in intensity and have been exacerbated by climate change , impede their progress towards sustainable development. (gbdrrrf.org)
  • With global temperatures continue to rise unabated, particularly beyond the 1.5 °C target , the scientific consensus is that the intensity, frequency , duration and impacts of extreme climate and weather events are likely to increase , putting critical infrastructure and much of the vulnerable population at risk. (insuresilience.org)
  • The cost of natural disasters has been increasing exponentially in recent years as hurricanes and storms grow in number and intensity on the Atlantic and wildfires ravish large swaths of the West. (iwins.com)
  • Answering this question requires two big pieces of information: the economic consequences of such storms (typhoons, hurricanes, and tropical cyclones) and the patterns of those storms in the years ahead. (motherjones.com)
  • And recently, on August 27, 2020, Hurricane Laura lashed Louisiana with 150-mile-per-hour winds, killing six people and registering as one of the most powerful storms on record to strike the United States. (americanprogress.org)
  • 2 All in all, as of September 23, 2020, the Atlantic hurricane season has produced 23 named storms-nearly double the season's long-term average and exhausting, for only the second time in history, the National Hurricane Center's list of 21 names. (americanprogress.org)
  • Second, higher water temperatures increase the intensity of storms and hurricanes, and their frequency. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Storms and hurricanes are like jet engines that use warm water as fuel, so the warmer the ocean is, the stronger they become. (biomedcentral.com)
  • He's going to tell us about some of the challenges and advances in forecasting hurricanes and storm surges, something we all pay attention to with almost addictive attention when storms are on the move, and it's all nicely packaged when we see those forecasts. (sciline.org)
  • She's going to take us to the intersection of hurricanes and human behavior with a look at the science of risk communication and efforts to reduce vulnerability among people who are threatened by these storms and other natural hazards. (sciline.org)
  • Countless communities across the United States have felt firsthand the often deadly and devastating impacts of hurricanes, from Hurricane Katrina, which left 1,833 people dead after slamming into the Gulf Coast in 2005, to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017-some of the most costly tropical storms on record-along with many others. (americanprogress.org)
  • NWS offices utilize the real-time reporting of weather events to assist in warning operations, but certainly hurricanes Katrina and Rita have shown us that ham radio operators are equally important during the recovery phase of large-scale natural disasters,' Floyd pointed out. (arrl.org)
  • In New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a more than 2-fold increase of cases of West Nile Neurological Disease was reported . (biomedcentral.com)
  • The ninth named storm, fourth hurricane, second major hurricane, and first Category 5 hurricane of the 2017 season, Irma caused widespread and catastrophic damage throughout its long lifetime, particularly in the northeastern Caribbean and the Florida Keys. (wikipedia.org)
  • Can the Florida Insurance Market Withstand a US$100 Billion Repeat of Hurricane Andrew? (rms.com)
  • The wide-ranging impact of Hurricane Andrew on the Florida insurance market is a familiar story within the risk management world. (rms.com)
  • Hurricane Irma is shaping up to be a potentially catastrophic storm that remains on course to hit Florida by Sunday. (duke.edu)
  • Florida, a state known for its sun-soaked beaches and vibrant communities, also faces a formidable adversary - hurricanes. (servprogreaterstaugustinestaugustinebeach.com)
  • Florida can experience hurricanes of varying intensity. (servprogreaterstaugustinestaugustinebeach.com)
  • 8] Lightning strikes in the United States are most common in Florida, the Atlantic coast, and along the southeastern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. (medscape.com)
  • Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that caused widespread destruction across its path in September 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • Irma was the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands on record, followed by Maria two weeks later. (wikipedia.org)
  • Favorable conditions allowed Irma to rapidly intensify into a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale by late on August 31. (wikipedia.org)
  • On September 4, Irma resumed intensifying, becoming a Category 5 hurricane by early on the next day. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hurricane Irma was the top Google searched term in the U.S. and globally in 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • Early on August 31, shortly after the development of a central dense overcast (CDO) and an eye feature, Irma underwent rapid intensification, becoming a Category 2 hurricane at 18:00 UTC and then a Category 3 hurricane, becoming a major hurricane - around 00:00 UTC on September 1. (wikipedia.org)
  • Already, energy companies in the state are bracing for the hazards that Hurricane Irma, which registered at a category 5 on Wednesday, could bring . (duke.edu)
  • Following that, Hurricane Irma destroyed 95% of structures on the island of Barbuda , among other islands. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Finally, Hurricane Irma devastated not only Puerto Rico but also the US Virgin Islands as well as Dominica . (biomedcentral.com)
  • The storm caused catastrophic damage in Barbuda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Anguilla, and the Virgin Islands as a Category 5 hurricane. (wikipedia.org)
  • As insurers and reinsurers know, major catastrophic events such as Hurricane Ian put pressure on the business all the way up to the C-Suite. (rms.com)
  • These include growing concerns related to sea level rise, storm surge, Atlantic hurricanes and catastrophic forest fires. (provide-h2020.eu)
  • Many areas impacted by Ida's winds were also impacted by storm surge, precipitation-induced flooding, and the hurricane events of 2020. (haggiepartners.com)
  • Despite the deadly consequences of both delaying the federal response to the pandemic at its outset and urging states to reopen their economies before it was safe to do so, President Donald Trump has boasted about the federal government's response to COVID-19 and the nation's preparedness for the 2020 hurricane season. (americanprogress.org)
  • The first major storm was Hurricane Harvey that drenched Houston and parts of Louisiana with record amounts of rainfall of 64.58 inches. (biomedcentral.com)
  • On August 27, 2015 a tropical storm passed over Dominica producing extraordinary rainfall with high intensity. (ukdiss.com)
  • As we have seen with Hurricane Idalia the impact can range between slight rainfall to flooding and damaging your home. (servprogreaterstaugustinestaugustinebeach.com)
  • Estimate excludes wind and inland flooding impacts in the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast U.S. regions, which will be communicated once the full extent of damage is known. (haggiepartners.com)
  • PROVIDE assesses regional and local impacts of overshoot pathways and required adaptation responses in four Iconic Regions (IR), including a focus on selected urban environments within those regions. (provide-h2020.eu)
  • The whole Indus River Basin is characterised by high socio-economic vulnerability as well as exposure to key impacts such as extreme weather events (e.g. heat, flood and drought), economic damages and crop failure. (provide-h2020.eu)
  • When Houston providers were hit by Hurricane Harvey last month, they experienced limited power outages thanks to investments -smart meters and a fault location, isolation and service restoration system-made after Hurricane Ike in 2008. (duke.edu)
  • And Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich) and Valerie Brader write in The Hill that "as Hurricane Harvey has taught us, making sure our energy resources are safe, secure and plentiful should not be a partisan issue. (duke.edu)
  • This has meant that both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, soaking rains, severe floods, years-long droughts and extreme wildfires are increasing. (infrastructurenews.co.za)
  • NFIP losses were derived using RMS' view of NFIP exposure based on 2019 policy-in-force data published by FEMA, the Version 21 North Atlantic Hurricane Models, and the U.S. Inland Flood HD Model. (haggiepartners.com)
  • Two people walk down a flooded street in Rodanthe, North Carolina, as Hurricane Dorian hits Cape Hatteras on September 6, 2019. (americanprogress.org)
  • Hsiang and Jina looked at 6,712 cyclones, typhoons, and hurricanes observed from 1950 to 2008 and the economic fortunes of the countries they struck in the years that followed. (motherjones.com)
  • At the time, it was considered the most powerful hurricane on record in the open Atlantic region, outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, until it was surpassed by Hurricane Dorian two years later. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season proved to be a very active and devastating period that broke several records, such as being one in only six years featuring at least two Category 5 hurricanes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We know that, globally, the last few decades have seen a growing proportion of strong hurricanes and a corresponding shrinking proportion of weak ones. (sciline.org)
  • And we know that, globally, hurricanes are reaching their maximum intensities further from the tropics, shifting toward temperate, heavily populated coastal regions that have not historically experienced them. (sciline.org)
  • Southern Louisiana has a high concentration of petrochemical plants, refineries, marine cargo and port exposures, power plants and other high-value industrial facilities that were impacted by Ida. (haggiepartners.com)
  • Ham radio operators and volunteers at Miami work together when hurricanes threaten to provide real-time weather data and damage reports to the Hurricane Center's forecasters. (arrl.org)
  • It makes you realize, these megastorms, if you haven't been hit by one, your worst-case scenario is nowhere near a true worst-case scenario," said Daniel J. Kelly , the executive director of the New Jersey Office of Recovery and Rebuilding, as he recalled his state's struggle to respond to Hurricane Sandy. (duke.edu)
  • Experts have calculated that $915 billion is needed to relieve the fiscal pressures that the COVID-19 pandemic has put on states, localities, tribes, and territories 8 -all during a year that is expected to be "one of the most active hurricane seasons on record," the resource needs of which will likely strain state and local government finances further. (americanprogress.org)
  • These hurricanes struck amid the pandemic and its economic slump and resulted in extensive economic losses estimated in over USD 8 billion. (insuresilience.org)
  • Also, population attrition due to out-migration, and lack of community leaders and communication channels after Hurricane Maria could affect participation in project activities. (cdc.gov)
  • As soon as Tropical Storm Ian was named on September 26, 2022, our clients using the RMS® ExposureIQ ™ application on the RMS Intelligent Risk Platform , have been accessing both our RMS Event Response event footprints and our RMS HWind real-time insights to provide a unique perspective on the progress of the storm. (rms.com)
  • Hurricane Otis, which seemed to materialize almost full-grown out of the eastern Pacific, is one of the fastest-intensifying hurricanes in history, growing from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 12 hours. (counterpunch.org)
  • It seems somehow fitting that a storm underwent rapid intensification today, the peak of the North Atlantic hurricane season . (rms.com)
  • Indeed, as forecast, Florence grew impressively from a tropical storm to a powerful Category 4 major hurricane - as of 1600 UTC on Monday, September 10, - with maximum sustained winds near 130 miles per hour (195 kilometers per hour), according to data from a recent National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reconnaissance aircraft mission into the storm. (rms.com)
  • The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia's watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. (wgntv.com)
  • The hazard with hurricanes are the associated winds, storm surge and, most of all, rain. (duke.edu)
  • We used weather surveillance radar data to measure spring stopover distributions of northward migrating birds along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast and found a strong influence of winds over nonadjacent water bodies, the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, along with the contiguous Gulf of Mexico. (birdcast.info)
  • Winds over the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean were just as, or more, influential than winds over the Gulf of Mexico, with the highest stopover densities in the central and eastern regions of the coast following the fastest winds from the east over the Caribbean Sea. (birdcast.info)
  • In response to this burgeoning interest, the current paper aims to present a comprehensive review of the main biochemical mechanisms underlying MICP (bacterial ureolytic activity, reactions duration and settling times, and chemical solution properties), their direct relevance to altering hydraulic and mechanical properties, both at the microscale and macroscale responses, and the precipitation mechanisms, particularly in relation to water resources and hydrology applications. (journaltocs.ac.uk)
  • Our results emphasized the response and recovery processes of VNCU to volcanic eruptions without the strong anthropogenic forcings, while the influence mechanisms of natural forcing on VNCU should receive more attention. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Global Bank Disaster Risk Reduction and Reconstruction Fund - An Umbrella Trust Fund (the "Trust Fund," "GB DRRRF," or "DRRRF") to develop and strengthen, as appropriate, coordinated global, regional, national approaches and operational mechanisms to prepare for and ensure rapid and effective disaster response in situations that exceed national coping capacities. (gbdrrrf.org)
  • The steady growth of disaster risk, including the increase of people and assets exposure, combined with the lessons learned from past disasters, indicates the need to further strengthen disaster preparedness for response, take action in anticipation of events, integrate disaster risk reduction in response preparedness and ensure that capacities are in place for effective response and recovery at all levels . (gbdrrrf.org)
  • 2021. Mercury exposure of tidal marsh songbirds in the northeastern United States and its association with nest survival. (uconn.edu)
  • 2021. Genetic data disagree with described subspecies ranges for Seaside Sparrow on the Atlantic coast. (uconn.edu)
  • Empowering women and persons with disabilities to publicly lead and promote gender equitable and universally accessible response, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction approaches is key. (gbdrrrf.org)
  • The lack of anatomical signatures in the austral trees suggests limited incursion of stratospheric volcanic aerosol into the Southern Hemisphere extra-tropics, that any forcing was mitigated by atmosphere-ocean dynamical responses and/or concentrated outside the growing season, or a combination of factors. (bvsalud.org)
  • Hurricane season is something we can prepare for, but we must understand it first. (servprogreaterstaugustinestaugustinebeach.com)
  • Hurricane Season: Florida's hurricane season typically spans from June 1st to November 30th, with the most active months being August and September. (servprogreaterstaugustinestaugustinebeach.com)
  • In the case of flood exposure though, risk can vary from one part of a city or county to another and companies have more options for choosing a place that is relatively safe from flooding. (iwins.com)
  • Expected flood damage is small relative to total property value, but the potential exposure of mortgages to flood risk varies significantly within the country. (cbo.gov)
  • Under a higher emissions pathway, historically unprecedented warming is projected during this century, with associated increases in heat wave intensity and decreases in cold wave intensity. (ncics.org)
  • The National Hurricane Center (NHC) began monitoring a tropical wave over western Africa on August 26. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, we conducted an exhaustive reconstruction of VNCU on the QTP over the last millennium, and used a superposed epoch analysis to characterize the VNCU response of the QTP after the tropical volcanic eruptions. (bvsalud.org)
  • Not only does the Gulf Stream distribute oxygen, nutrients, carbon, and heat around the Atlantic, but its sweeping currents also regulate sea levels, keeping near-shore water levels as much as up to 5 feet lower than the ocean farther off-shore. (counterpunch.org)
  • The first response in many species is closure of stomata, the tiny openings that allow plants to 'breathe' - to take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. (mongabay.com)
  • Since early 2015, experts have monitored the development of one of the largest El Niño events of the last 50 years, and notably, the largest since the 1997-98 El Niño that shocked global food, water, health, energy and disaster-response systems and erased years of development gains. (columbia.edu)
  • The growing trend of extreme events is leading to an increasing exposure to weather risks which in turn has seen a marked rise in insurance claims. (infrastructurenews.co.za)
  • Hurricanes and other extreme events obviously cause massive devastation and economic harm. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In the absence of extreme events, residents in developed countries are protected from mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit partly simply by their lifestyle , with reduced exposure from not spending time outdoors as much and by having mosquito screens and air conditioning, as well as potted water and functioning sewage systems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Welcome to SciLine's media briefing on hurricane forecasts and warnings, where we're going to span the spectrum from the complexities of mathematical computer forecasting to the complexities of human behavior in response to these kinds of warnings. (sciline.org)
  • A ridge of high pressure is guiding Florence on a west-northwest to northwest path across the southeastern Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and the Bahamas towards the southeastern U.S. Swells generated by Florence are already affecting Bermuda, with warnings of life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. (rms.com)
  • Improvements since AR5 in observation systems, techniques, reconstructions and model developments, have advanced scientific characterisation and understanding of ocean and cryosphere change, including in previously identified areas of concern such as ice sheets and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). (ipcc.ch)
  • Its northerly latitude and geographic location expose the state to both the moderating and moistening influence of the Atlantic Ocean and the effects of hot and cold air masses from the interior of the continent. (ncics.org)
  • The effects are lasting: Overall, they find that "each additional meter per second of annual nationally-averaged wind exposure lowers per capita economic output 0.37 percent 20 years later " (emphasis added). (motherjones.com)
  • RMS ® , the world's leading catastrophe risk solutions company, estimates onshore and offshore U.S. insured losses from Hurricane Ida in the Gulf of Mexico to be between US$25 and US$35 billion. (haggiepartners.com)
  • When these infrastructures become degraded in an extreme event, residents are at increased exposure risk to vector-borne diseases as well. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Complicating the increased risk people suffer in these countries because of higher lightning density, poor housing, and greater everyday exposure are the superstitions that may prevent adequate prevention and mitigation. (medscape.com)
  • High $\beta$ plasma response to the rotating n=1 external magnetic perturbations is numerically studied and compared with National Spherical Torus eXperiment (NSTX). (princeton.edu)
  • Since the external rotating fields and high plasma rotation are presented in NSTX experiments, the importance of resistive wall effect and plasma rotation on determining the plasma response is also identified, where the resistive wall suppresses the plasma response through the wall eddy current. (princeton.edu)
  • The complexity of plasma response, in this study, indicates that MHD modeling, including comprehensive physics e.g. the drift kinetic effects, resistive wall and plasma rotation, is essential to reliably predict the plasma behavior in high beta spherical tokamak device. (princeton.edu)
  • Lightning kills more people each year in the United States than hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes combined. (medscape.com)
  • The word Irmageddon was coined soon after the hurricane to describe the damage caused by the hurricane. (wikipedia.org)
  • Expected damage is concentrated in certain geographic areas, such as the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, where it may be large relative to property values. (cbo.gov)
  • In California, the main danger is wildfires, which have been growing in scope, number and intensity during the past decade. (iwins.com)
  • He notes that the HWN, organized in 1965 during Hurricane Betsy, started out as an informal group of amateurs but has since developed a formal relationship with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami via its Amateur Radio station WX4NHC. (arrl.org)