The nation’s eyes are on Hurricane Florence, which overcame some big odds to target the East Coast this week.
Regardless of where the storm ultimately lands in the Carolinas, the Southeastern U.S. is due for potentially unprecedented rainfall and vio…
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Hurricane Florence replaced its eyewall. What does that mean?
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Late Monday night, Hurricane Florence — the Category 4 storm barreling toward the East Coast of the U.S. — decided to replace its eyewall. And it’s threatening to do so again.
This dramatic-sounding event tends to make major hurricanes even stronger, and larger, explained Chris Slocum, a storm researcher specializing in the inner-core processes of hurricanes at Colorado State University.
But how does such an atmospheric event unfold for any storm, let alone the ominous Hurricane Florence with extreme winds forecast to blow just off the coast of the Carolinas late Thursday?
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Watch hurricane hunters fly into the eye of an intensifying Hurricane Florence
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Storm scientists are swooping through Hurricane Florence as it increases in size and heads toward landfall on the East Coast later this week.
On Monday, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) team flew its four-propeller P-3 craft through the eye of Hurricane Florence, capturing stunning video of the Category 4 storm.
In the reprieve of the storm’s eye, NOAA hurricane scientist Heather Holbach captured Atlantic blue skies above Florence’s towering vertical walls from the hurricane hunter aircraft.
View from inside the eye of category 4 #HurricaneFlorence today onboard the NOAA P-3 #NOAA42. (Video credit: Heather Holbach) pic.twitter.com/eEYOI2PBnh
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How Hurricane Florence overcame big odds to target the East Coast
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Hurricane Florence has done something strange.
The Category 4 storm — which is expected to make landfall somewhere in the Southeastern U.S. on early Friday morning as a major hurricane — has broken with a 170-year long history of Atlantic hurricanes to now target the United States.
Since 1851, there have been 33 named-storms that churned within 100 miles of Florence’s position in the middle of the AtlanticNone of them, according to a tweet from hurricane scientist Phil Klotzbach, ever made landfall in the U.S.
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Hurricane Florence is our first major hurricane of the 2018 season in the Atlantic. Where will it go?
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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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Hurricane Maria is the deadliest storm of the 21st century
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Puerto Rico was ravaged by Hurricane Maria one year ago next month.
Since the island’s long recovery began, the government and independent institutions have worked to figure out exactly how many lives were taken by the effects of the extreme storm.
Today, we have a new, better estimate — and it’s more than 46 times the old one.
According to a new study released by George Washington University (GW), 2,975 people died as a result of the hurricane. The government of Puerto Rico now accepts that number as an accurate death toll, updating their previous official estimate of 64. Read more…
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Hurricane scientist Lisa Bucci took a jarring ride through the strengthening Hurricane Lane Tuesday evening. Eventually, her plane emerged from the swirling clouds into the vast, stadium-like eye of the storm.
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We may never see a hurricane season worse than the one that brought us Katrina
The tumultuous 2017 Atlantic hurricane season proved to be one of the most active years on record, with 17 named storms and six major hurricanes.
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Powerful hurricanes usually steer clear of Hawaii, but Hurricane Lane is coming
Hurricane Lane, which is currently bearing down on Hawaii, is “not a well behaved storm,” according to the state’s governor David Ige.
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How a population of lizards was forever changed by 2017’s extreme hurricane season
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The extreme winds from last year’s destructive hurricane season seems to have come with some unexpected consequences.
Hurricanes Irma and Maria — some of the most destructive in Caribbean history — may have forced rapid evolutionary change in a native population of small-bodied anole lizards (Anolis scriptus), researchers in the West Indies say.
According to a new study about the lizards released in Nature this week, much of the surviving population of lizards after the hurricanes have larger toe pads, longer forelimbs, and shorter hind limbs than the average anole. Read more…
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