News Stories relating to "hurricane"

The south central Atlantic has warmed this spring to anunprecendented degree, while temperatures in thestratosphere have continued to plummet, and air pressures atsea level are unusually low. These effects are a directresult of the ongoing global warming process, in whichexcessive carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere keeheat pressed...

As of 10PM EDT, Hurricane Jeanne slammed ashore just southof Fort Pierce Florida as a Category 3 storm, onapproximately the same path as Frances, which struck thearea three weeks ago. However, Jeanne is a much strongerstorm than Frances and three million Floridians have beenordered to evacuate the area. Most have ignored this warning.

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Ivan, which was declared a tropical storm yesterday, becamea hurricane today, making it the fastest developing southAtlantic hurricane ever recorded. Ivan is presently on atrack to strike south Florida, and is expected to become aCategory 5 hurricane tomorrow. This is the most powerfulhurricane category. A Category 5 storm on the Saffir-...

We are receiving a lot of alternate news from Florida thattells a very much different story from the one appearing inthe general media. We have not fact checked these stories,but they are coming in a wave of pain and despair, and theymean, to us, that what is unfolding there is almostcertainly much worse than the CNNs and Fox News channels...

Meteorologists think Hurricane Isabel may be just the first of a long string of even bigger hurricanes that may keep coming for at least a decade. "We're not talking about a minor little increase," says Stanley Goldenberg of NOAA, "but an overall doubling of major hurricane activity."

J. Madeleine Nash writes in Time Magazine online that...