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Morales: Calamity-filled weeks show importance of dispelling weather conspiracies
Humans can change some aspects of the weather. Science-based weather modification techniques are now employed in over 50 countries according to the World Meteorological Organization. But for every science-based weather-altering technique, there are dozens of pseudoscientific urban legends.
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A monstrous Cat 5: Milton's rapid intensification explained by John Morales
Last year, Hurricane Otis struck very near Acapulco, Mexico, as a monster 165 mile-per-hour category 5 cyclone. About 24-hours before landfall, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was predicting it would do so as 70 mile-per-hour tropical storm. With the energy content (and destructive potential) of the wind increasing with the cube of the windspeed, that means that Otis reached Mexico…
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Helene leaves behind apocalyptic scenes, a humanitarian catastrophe that's still unfolding
No one can hide from the truth. Extreme weather events, including hurricanes, are becoming more extreme.
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Historic Hurricane Helene larger than 90% of tropical cyclones: John Morales
Mean Helene is on a mission to be yet another multibillion-dollar disaster.
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The Central American gyre and how it relates to tropical systems
In what has turned into a below-average hurricane season by many measures, a lack of areas of interest in the tropical Atlantic means all eyes are laser-focused on the one area in which something — anything — might develop.
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By many metrics, this season has ‘suddenly become quite ordinary': John Morales
This is the week in which historical statistics caught up with the activity we’ve seen so far.
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‘Global weirding': John Morales among forecasters scratching head as hurricane season goes quiet
It’s not even halftime and we’ve had two U.S. hurricane landfalls, including beastly Beryl, and more could come.
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Party's over – busy time ahead in the Tropical Atlantic: John Morales
For those of us who never want to see a hurricane again, the hardest weeks of the year are ahead.
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John Morales explains conditions causing late-August lull in the tropics
It’s a lull, and it’s dull. But no one’s complaining.
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See how climate change influences sea surface temps – and how that plays a role this hurricane season
Hurricanes feed off of warm ocean waters. What happens then when that ocean heat is made 400 times more likely due to human-caused climate change? You get record-shattering Hurricane Beryl. Unusually warm ocean temperatures contributed to Hurricane Beryl’s rapid intensification. Climate Central’s new Climate Shift Index: Ocean (Ocean CSI) methodology, which quantifies the influence of climate change on sea...