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  1974 Atlantic hurricane season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The most notable storms of the season were Hurricane Carmen, which made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula and in Louisiana, causing at least $150 million (1974 US dollars) in damages; and Hurricane Fifi, which killed 8,000 people as it skimmed along the northern coast of Honduras.
Hurricane Becky formed from an area of showers and thunderstorms on August 26, located to the southwest of Bermuda.
Hurricane Fifi formed from a tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea on September 14.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1974_Atlantic_hurricane_season   (989 words)

  
 Hurricane Mitch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season.
Because the hurricane threatened to strike near Belize City as a Category 4 hurricane, much of the city was evacuated in fear of a repeat of Hurricane Hattie 37 years earlier.
Hurricane Mitch was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since the Great Hurricane of 1780, displacing the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 as the second-deadliest on record.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Mitch   (3622 words)

  
 Galveston Hurricane of 1900 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ship reports were the only reliable tool for observing hurricanes at sea, and because wireless telegraphy was in its infancy, these reports were not available until the ships put in at a harbor.
Like most powerful Atlantic hurricanes, the 1900 storm is believed to have begun as a Cape Verde-type hurricane—a tropical wave moving off the western coast of Africa.
Prior to the Hurricane of 1900, Galveston was considered to be a beautiful and prestigious city and was known as "the New York of the South." Many people say that had it not been for the hurricane, Galveston would today be one of the nation's largest and most beautiful cities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galveston_Hurricane_of_1900   (3017 words)

  
 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation, or ATC, is a density-driven circulation in the Atlantic Basin that undergoes cycles on decadal timescales.
The North Atlantic Oscillation, or NAO, is the fluctuation in 500 millibar heights in the northern Atlantic, primarily between western Europe, Iceland, Greenland, and the Canadian Maritimes.
For warm ATC seasons, the average number of named storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes in the Mean Development Region when the March NAO is positive is 6.4, 3.7, and 1.4 respectively.
www.independentwx.com /2006   (10107 words)

  
 ipedia.com: 1974 Atlantic hurricane season Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The 1974 Atlantic hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation.
Hurricane Carmen was the strongest storm of the season, reaching Category 4 strength.
Hurricane Fifi caused enormous amounts of rain-related damage when it made landfall in Honduras.
www.ipedia.com /1974_atlantic_hurricane_season.html   (238 words)

  
 McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR - Science Raises Alarm on Future Hurricane Threats
Hurricane researchers predict with growing confidence that we are in for a long period of heavy weather in the next generation.
Residents of the eastern U.S. are mostly concerned with the number, strength and duration of Atlantic hurricanes that hit the mainland.
Goldenberg says if all records of hurricane season activity are considered and a normal season is rated at 100%, taking into account storm frequency, strength and duration, the activity predicted for this season would rate 165%.
enr.construction.com /news/bizlabor/archives/040923.asp   (743 words)

  
 DeadlyStorms.com - Atlantic & Caribbean Hurricane Timeline & Season Summaries
Hurricane Diane hit the North Carolina coast in mid-August a short distance south of where her older sister, Connie, crossed the coastline a week earlier.
Hurricanes caused $4.1 billion in damage in the United States and killed 147 people in the United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean islands, according to estimates from the National Hurricane Center.
Hurricane Lenny was memorable because it formed at the tail end of the season and because it moved easterly across the Caribbean, finally hitting the Dutch, French and British islands of the Northeast Caribbean last week.
www.deadlystorms.com /xtra/hurricane_timeline.htm   (9005 words)

  
 Hurricane Damage to Residential Structures: Risk and Mitigation
Hurricane Hugo in 1989 was the strongest storm to strike the United States since 1969 when Camille struck the Gulf Coast.
Hurricane Iniki was one of the most powerful and destructive storms to hit Hawaii in recent memory.
Trends in population growth and relocation, increase in the rate of hurricane formation as the multi-decade hurricane cycle moves upward, and long-term climate change all point to increased residential damage from hurricanes in the future.
www.colorado.edu /hazards/wp/wp94/wp94.html   (20104 words)

  
 WFO Miami, Unusual Tornadoes Associated with Hurricane Michelle
Hurricane Michelle was the 13th named storm in an active 2001 hurricane season, beginning as a tropical depression off the coast of Nicaragua on October 29, developing into a hurricane on November 2, and striking the south coast islands of Cuba as a category 4 hurricane on November 4.
Hurricane Michelle was the 13th named storm in an active 2001 hurricane season.
Michelle became a hurricane on November 2, and struck the south coast islands of Cuba as a category 4 hurricane on November 4.
www.srh.noaa.gov /mfl/newpage/michelle.html   (3808 words)

  
 SIGHTINGS
Gray, who underestimated this season's activity, said the last four years have been the most active ever for hurricanes in the Atlantic basin.
The Pacific hurricane season, which also ends today, was about average with 13 named storms and nine hurricanes.
The Atlantic season's last gasp was tropical storm Nicole, which formed last week and stayed out at sea.
www.rense.com /earthchanges/hurr.htm   (640 words)

  
 Hurricane Fifi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hurricane Mitch struck Central America with such viciousness that it was nearly a week before the magnitude of...
1974 hurricane Fifi kills 3,000 this hurricane was born in...
the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and Hurricane Fifi of 1974, the latter...
www.survival-resources.com /Survival-Resources/hurricane-fifi.html   (553 words)

  
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This year's Atlantic hurricane season won't soon be forgotten: an onslaught of storms left a staggering trail of death and destruction across Central America and the Caribbean.
The Pacific hurricane season, which also ends today but started 15 days earlier, on May 15, was about average with 13 named storms and nine hurricanes.
Mitch tied Camille in 1969 as the the fourth strongest Atlantic hurricane this century.
www.usatoday.com /weather/huricane/1998/wrapup98.htm   (1191 words)

  
 www.outsideweather.com - World Weather Forecasts and News Online
When is hurricane season in the florida keys An operations center for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, laboratories, a planned during the upcoming hurricane season along the Florida coast, in the western Atlantic.
Hurricane conditions are expected to hit Mexico within of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, and the second storm to reach hurricane status.
Hurricane dennis gulf shores alabama Hurricane Dennis came ashore on the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast Sunday with a 120-mph fury of Beach, Fort Walton Beach and Gulf Shores, Ala.
www.outsideweather.com /content/chapter53.html   (15462 words)

  
 Hurricane Joyce
Reports from an Air Force Hurricane Hunter plane...satellite pictures...and surface observations indicate that Joyce no longer has a closed circulation and is now a tropical wave.
This is the last public advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center on Joyce unless regeneration occurs.
The name Joyce was used for in 1974 for a Eastern Pacific Hurricane.
www.disastercenter.com /hurricane/Joyce/Joyce.html   (1203 words)

  
 LiveScience.com - Hurricane Guide: 2006 Forecast Downgraded
Hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin, which includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
The first named Atlantic hurricane was Able in 1950.
The boy-girl-boy-girl naming convention evolved to include French and Spanish names in the Atlantic system, reflecting the languages of the nations affected by Carribean hurricanes.
www.livescience.com /forcesofnature/hurricane_guide.html   (446 words)

  
 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON 1872-2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
NOAA published the Review until the end of 1973.
With the beginning of 1974 publication was turned over to the American Meteorological Society which continues publishing the Review to this day.
These summaries are in Portable Document Format (PDF).
www.aoml.noaa.gov /general/lib/lib1/nhclib/libpage13.htm   (176 words)

  
 Hurricane Survival Kit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Remember, there may be no electricity or clean water for days.
Downed trees and other hurricane related debris blocking the roads will keep you from traveling far.
Stock up today; store them in a water-resistant container; and replenish as necessary, especially at the beginning of the hurricane season – June1.
www.tampagov.net /dept_Public_Works/emergency_prep/disaster_supply_kit.asp   (262 words)

  
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Abbot, C.G. The Periodicity of the Variations of the Surface Temperature of the Atlantic Ocean and of the Air Temperature of the Continents.
Abbot, C.G. 1947-1948 Report on the 27.0074 Day Cycle in Washington Precipitation.
Bryson, R.A. and Lahey, J.F. The march of seasons.
atlantic.evsc.virginia.edu /gopher/Publications/Personal%20Reference%20Lists/Hayden   (451 words)

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