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Stunning astronaut photos show multiple hurricanes swirling in the Atlantic

sudshr47 September 10, 2018

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Hurricane Florence isn’t the only storm churning in the Atlantic Ocean. 

At the moment, Florence, Hurricane Isaac, and Hurricane Helene are all swirling in different parts of the ocean at the peak of hurricane season. 

NASA astronaut and current International Space Station resident Ricky Arnold was able to capture the sheer breadth of Hurricane Florence, while showcasing Isaac and an outer band of Helene in new photos posted on Twitter Monday.

Hurricane #Florence this morning as seen from @Space_Station. A few moments later, #Isaac & the outer bands of #Helene were also visiblepic.twitter.com/WJQfS4au4m

— Ricky Arnold (@astro_ricky) September 10, 2018 Read more…

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Hurricane Florence is our first major hurricane of the 2018 season in the Atlantic. Where will it go?

sudshr47 September 5, 2018

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Well folks, we officially have our first major Atlantic hurricane of the 2018 season.

Early Wednesday afternoon the National Hurricane Center announced that Hurricane Florence, a storm brewing 2,205 miles off the coast of Bermuda, has intensified into a major storm. 

A hurricane is considered “major” or intense when wind speeds exceed 111 mph, which means it’s at least a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

“This is almost exactly on target,” NOAA representative Dennis Feltgen said in an interview. “The typical day to see the first major hurricane is September 4. It’s September 5.” Read more…

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2018’s hurricane season will be active, but probably not as bad as last year

sudshr47 May 24, 2018

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On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its forecast for the looming 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, and it’ll be an active one.

Forecasters say that there’s a 70 percent chance that the season will be active with hurricanes, but it’s unlikely that we’ll see the extremes of 2017, when six major storms (which have sustained destructive winds of at least 111 mph) roared through the Atlantic.

“Last year was extremely active,” Gerry Bell, the lead hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, said in an interview. “It was one of the strongest seasons on record.” Read more…

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Disastrous 2017 Atlantic hurricane season ends, with hard-hit areas still reeling

sudshr47 November 30, 2017

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The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends on Thursday, will go down as one of the most expensive in American history. The notorious storms of 2017 — hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria — may have had innocuous names. However, they flooded America’s fourth-largest metropolis, cut a swath of destruction across the Caribbean before hitting Florida, and cut off power to the entire island of Puerto Rico, respectively.

The costs of the storms that hit the U.S. are still being tallied, with some analysts claiming that it was the most expensive hurricane season on record. Steve Bowen, a meteorologist with the insurance company AonBenfield, said that his company’s calculations show that direct damage and business interruption losses from 2017’s many storms will put 2017 in second place, behind 2005, once adjusted for inflation. Read more…

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