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Could the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Be The Most Active Ever?

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This year’s Atlantic hurricane season is currently the second most active on record. The “Atlantic hurricane season” is from the beginning of June to the end of November. With two months to go there only needs to be four more named storms to tie 2020 with 2005 for the most named hurricanes. In fact, there have been so many hurricanes […]

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Alex Camerino | September 28, 2020
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Hurricane Hunters: A Suicide Mission For Knowledge?

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Most pilots try to avoid flying through any sort of weather, but the Hurricane Hunters fly through hurricanes in the name of science. The concept originated with Capt. W. L. Farnsworth in the early 1930s and was subsequently signed into law as the “storm patrol bill” in 1936. However, the first hurricane warning service dates back to the early 1870s. […]

Alex Camerino | August 7, 2020
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Climate Change May Already Be SuperCharging Tropical Storms

Reports show that climate change could already be supercharging tropical storms. This was something that climatologists around the world believed would occur, but it was unclear how soon this would start happening. Scientists now believe they have found evidence of this occurring already. Not only do they believe that these storms are intensifying, but that they also could be helping […]

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Avatar photo Ryan Flynn | June 29, 2020
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Brain Post: How Hurricanes Get Named

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Hurricanes get named using a system developed in the 1950s. Tropical storms also get named once they reach a sustained wind speed of 35 mph. The naming procedure is dictated by the World Meteorological Organization, and there are different naming conventions for storms that occur in the Pacific. Before the 1950s, hurricanes and tropical storms were assigned a number. This […]

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Lynn Barlow | June 23, 2020
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