Get Ready for Monster Hurricanes This Summer
Three main factors converge to intensify hurricanes. The first is that as the world in general warms, so too do the oceans. Water evaporating off the surface rises, releasing heat …
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2024’s ‘extremely active’ hurricane season could bring 23 named storms, experts say
Colorado State University’s annual April hurricane forecast is calling for an “extremely active” Atlantic hurricane season for 2024. A team of researchers estimates there will be 11 hurricanes in the …
Hurricane Hilary was not a tropical storm when it entered California, yet it had the same impact, study shows
By JOHN ANTCZAK | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Former Hurricane Hilary was actually no longer a tropical storm but essentially had the same impact when its destructive remnants entered …
Category 6 hurricanes? Storms becoming so strong we might need new category – National
Hurricanes are growing with such intensity and power due to climate change that a peer-reviewed study argues we need a new category to classify these worst-of-the-worst storms. Currently, hurricanes are …
Pinstripe Bowl Week 2023 in NYC
WATCH: Rutgers marching band plays the hits WATCH: Rutgers marching band plays the hits Jerry Carino, Asbury Park Press NEW YORK – As the Rutgers football team winds down its …
Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics
As Hurricane Larry curved north in the Atlantic in 2021, sparing the eastern seaboard of the United States, a special instrument was waiting for it on the coast of Newfoundland. …
Climate change is impacting the home insurance industry and damaging the U.S. housing market
By Anna Bahney | CNN Washington, DC — When Michael Monaghan, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Sellers Realty in northern California, got an offer for a home in …
Death Valley, the driest place in North America, has sprung to life with lakes and flowers after Hurricane Hilary
By Mary Gilbert | CNN Meteorologist California’s Death Valley is the hottest place in the world and the driest place in North America. But two months after Hurricane Hilary’s epic …
A Global Surge in Cholera Outbreaks May Be Fueled by Climate Change
The global cholera surge drove a vaccine shortage right when countries needed it most. Malawi in the past used the cholera vaccine for prevention, but “now if you don’t have …
Libya’s Deadly Floods Show the Growing Threat of Medicanes
Storm Daniel, which has killed at least 5,000 people in Libya, with 10,000 more missing, was no normal weather. This rare, destructive, subtropical monster was supersized by unusually warm Mediterranean …