July 11, 2019
Stories tagged "hurricane"
June 5, 2019
Hurricane Season Begins With Disturbance In Gulf of Mexico
Hurricane Season in the Atlantic officially began last Saturday, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting a “near normal” year with nine to fifteen named storms, of which four to eight may strengthen to become...April 12, 2019
New Orleans Levees Sinking, City Sues Oil Companies
According to E&E News, the $14 billion levee system, which was recently totally rebuilt to better defend the New Orleans in the event of another catastrophic storm like Hurricane Katrina, is subsiding and soon may not provide sufficient protection from a 100-year...March 28, 2019
DoD Provides New List of Climate Vulnerable Installations, Requests Billions for Repairs
In response to a demand from Congressional Democrats, the Pentagon developed a new list of climate vulnerable installations in addition to the installations they identified in January. The list of 20 installations, The Hill reported, are those most at risk from...March 19, 2019
Days after Cyclone Idai, millions still affected across Western Africa
Late last Thursday when Cyclone Idai slammed into the western coast of Africa north of Beira, Mozambique (an Indian Ocean port city of a half-million people) the category 3 hurricane devastated regions of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Several days after the storm...February 7, 2019
2018 Was Fourth Hottest Year on Record According to NOAA and NASA
The numbers are in from both science agencies that keep climate records, and it was another hot one in 2018 — the fourth warmest average annual global temperature in history. It comes in fourth only to the three years that preceded it — 2015, 2016, and...January 15, 2019
Private Weather Company To Use Different Hurricane Severity Scale
The nation’s largest private weather provider, AccuWeather, is going to begin to use a new “scale” for conveying the severity of hurricanes in the future, diverging from the current scale used by the National Weather Service (NWS) and followed by all...May 25, 2018