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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1999 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1999 Atlantic hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation.
Hurricane Bret made landfall in the sparsely populated Kenedy County, Texas, missing Brownsville, Texas to its south and Corpus Christi, Texas to its north.
Hurricane Lenny was a damaging late season hurricane first named on November 14 while in the western Caribbean Sea.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/1999_Atlantic_hurricane_season   (1496 words)

  
 Hurricanes FAQ--Answering The Basic Questions On Hurricanes.
Hurricanes are broken down into five different categories according to their power and potential damage they can do, which is determined by sustained wind speed and pressure.
Hurricanes are play a very important role in preserving the heat balance that the earth maintains by transferring heat from the tropics to the poles.
An example of a hurricane in the South Atlantic was a hurricane that struck the Catarina region of Southeastern Brazil in March, 2004.
www.hurricaneville.com /faq.html   (2920 words)

  
 2005 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season Forecast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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, and Greenland.
All four landfalls occurred from hurricanes that originated in the southwest Caribbean Sea in October, a region that is expected to be highly favorable this season due to the lack of an El Nino and a strong ATC.
www.independentwx.com /2005.html   (10052 words)

  
 Global Warming and Hurricanes
Hurricane intensity is a measure of the strength or maximum wind speed of a hurricane.
Hurricane activity is the term used by the National Hurricane Center that encompasses both the frequency and intensity of hurricanes in a season.
Although the average number of hurricanes between 1995 and 2005 is probably unprecedented, we have not seen a long-term increase in hurricane frequency during the 20th century overall.
www.pewclimate.org /hurricanes.cfm   (1066 words)

  
 NOAA Magazine Online (Story 184)
The strength of the Atlantic hurricane season is largely determined by the number of tropical storms and hurricanes forming between Africa and the Caribbean Sea during the peak months of the season (August through October).
Above-normal hurricane seasons and eras are generally not random, but result from an inter-related set of key atmospheric and oceanic conditions favoring hurricane formation in the main development region.
The 2005 season was the busiest on record in terms of early season activity (it is rare to see major hurricanes develop in July and this year two major hurricanes, Dennis and Emily, both formed in July).
www.magazine.noaa.gov /stories/mag184.htm   (2821 words)

  
 1995_Atlantic_hurricane_season   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 1995 Atlantic Hurricane season was the second most active season on record, and the most active in sixty-two years.
The 1995 hurricane season began with the Florida panhandle being a magnet for hurricanes.
There were five major hurricanes for the season, and as many as five storms existed from August 22 to September 1 (Humberto, Iris, Jerry, Karen, and Luis).
www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=1995_Atlantic_hurricane_season   (1702 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Hurricane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hurricane Mitch during the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season caused severe flooding and mudslides in Honduras, killing about 18,000 people and changing the landscape enough that entirely new maps of the country were needed.
Hurricane Iniki in 1992 was the most powerful storm to strike Hawaii in recorded history, hitting Kauai as a Category 4 hurricane, killing six and causing $3 billion in damage.
Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 was only a tropical storm when it made a glancing blow on Haiti, but the flooding and mudslides it caused killed over 3,000 people.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Hurricane   (8880 words)

  
 Tropical cyclone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hurricanes also strike Mexico Central America and Caribbean island nations often doing intense damage: are deadlier when over warmer water and United States is better able to evacuate from threatened areas than many other nations.
Hurricanes are categorized according to the strength their winds using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
List of notable tropical cyclones arctic cyclone Beaufort scale Lists of tropical cyclone names List of Atlantic hurricane seasons.
www.freeglossary.com /Cyclonic   (1267 words)

  
 Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Names
The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity.
Lists A, B, C, and D are used sequentially one after the other.
Lists A and B are used sequentially one after the other.
www.nhc.noaa.gov /aboutnames.shtml   (663 words)

  
 EXTENDED RANGE FORECAST OF ATLANTIC SEASONAL HURRICANE ACTIVITY FOR 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thus, based on this analysis, we expect 2005 to be an active hurricane season and in line with the average of eight of the last ten years (1995, 1996; 1998-2001; 2003, 2004).
Atlantic basin NTC can be skillfully hindcast, and the strength of the Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation can be inferred as SSTA* from North Atlantic SST anomalies in the current and prior years.
Although many active Atlantic hurricane seasons feature no landfalling hurricanes, and some inactive years experience one or more landfalling hurricanes, it is found that, on average, the more active the overall Atlantic basin hurricane season is, the greater the probability of U.S. hurricane landfall.
hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu /forecasts/2005/june2005   (4257 words)

  
 FORECAST OF ATLANTIC HURRICANE ACTIVITY FOR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Seasonal hurricane forecasts have been issued for 21 years by the tropical meteorology research group of Prof.
We expect this to be the eighth of the last 10 seasons that have had hurricane activity much above the last 55 year average and particularly the suppressed activity of the quarter-century period of 1970-1994.
The Florida landfall of major hurricanes Charley and Frances in the last three weeks should be thought of as a rare but natural occurrence and an expected statistical adjustment to the century long climatological average.
hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu /forecasts/2004/sep2004   (3533 words)

  
 NOAA News Online (Story 2540)
Arguably, it was the most devastating hurricane season the country has experienced in modern times,” said retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Ph.D., undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.
Because we are in an active hurricane era, it's important to recognize that with a greater number of hurricanes comes increasing odds of one striking land," said retired Air Force Brig.
With six months until the official start of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA urges hurricane-prone residents to take proactive measures during this time.
www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories2005/s2540.htm   (927 words)

  
 How Are Atlantic Hurricanes Named?
Back in the 1800s, hurricanes in the West Indies were named according to the saint's day on which the storm occurred.
In 1979, names of both genders were used for Atlantic hurricanes after eastern Pacific storms began to use male and female names.
Each list is reused every six years, with the exception of the names of storms that have resulted in major damage or death.
www.redcross.org /news/ds/hurricanes/010524naming.html   (397 words)

  
 IRE Resources and Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The four hurricanes that battered Florida in 2004 made for one of the most remarkable, memorable, and costly hurricane seasons in history.
The GAO contacted county emergency management officials in the 24 South Carolina counties declared as disaster areas in Hurricane Hugo (1989) to determine how well their disaster-related needs were met.
Historical Hurricane Tracker: An interactive mapping application that allows you to easily search and display more than 150 years of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone data.
www.ire.org /inthenews_archive/hurricane.html   (3285 words)

  
 nbc6.net - Weather - NOAA: Busy Hurricane Season Ahead
Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr., head of the administration, told reporters the Atlantic will have 12 to 15 tropical storms, seven to nine of them becoming hurricanes, and three to five of those hurricanes being major, with sustained winds of at least 111 mph.
The hurricane season begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30.
Lautenbacher says the eastern and central Pacific are expected to have a lighter-than-normal season.
www.nbc6.net /weather/4493762/detail.html   (244 words)

  
 Current Hurricane Data Sets
The Hurricane Research Division collects a variety of data sets on tropical cyclones.
Each Atlantic and East Pacific hurricane seasons we conduct a field program in which we collect these data sets from the NOAA aircraft and process them.
Please note that we don't necessarily collect information on every hurricane that occurs, so the list won't be for all of the storms for that year.
www.aoml.noaa.gov /hrd/data_sub/hurr.html   (99 words)

  
 The New Colonist...for the citizen of the new century
Tropical Storm Risk (TSR), the consortium of experts on insurance, risk management and seasonal climate forecasting led by UCL’s Benfield Hazard Research Centre, today increased its forecast for Atlantic basin hurricane activity in 2005 by a further 30%.
The predicted seasonal totals include the considerable activity which occurred during June and July (seven tropical storms and two intense hurricanes; three U.S. striking tropical storms of which one (Dennis) was a hurricane).
If verified, the total of 22 tropical storms would be the highest ever recorded in a North Atlantic season.
www.newcolonist.com /vox/archive/00000478.html   (653 words)

  
 Corpus Christi Caller-Times: Weather   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thoughts of another hurricane season usually mean stocking up on canned goods, first aid supplies, lumber for boarding windows and deciding on an evacuation route.
The storm's name was Celia and on Monday, Aug. 3, 1970, this major hurricane changed Corpus Christi and much of the Coastal Bend forever.
Bazan, her husband and their three children age 1 to 6 left their home on Clemmer Street when they heard a neighborhood shelter was opening.
www.caller2.com /weather/hurricane.cfm   (261 words)

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