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CLIMATEWIRE | Many of the nation's disaster organizations are exposed to perilous financial risks at the start of hurricane season, jeopardizing efforts across much of the U.S. to recover from catastrophes. Financial crises threaten to ricochet throughout Gulf Coast states and force people to pay surcharges on insurance premiums for years to come, and communities nationwide could lose funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster recovery. Several factors are causing the financial problems: enormous…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and forecasters are keeping a close eye on rising ocean temperatures, and not just in the Atlantic. Globally, warm sea surface temperatures that can fuel hurricanes have been off the charts in the spring of 2023, but what really matters for Atlantic hurricanes are the ocean temperatures in two locations: the North Atlantic basin, where hurricanes are…

Virginia Key sits on Florida’s doorstep, just southeast of downtown Miami, and is firmly in the strike zone of Hurricane Alley—a swath of warm water that is perfect for hurricane formation and stretches eastward across the Atlantic to Africa. More than 250 hurricanes have hit the U.S. mainland since the mid-19th century, often with catastrophic results. Virginia Key is also home to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory, where scientists are hard at work to…

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is projecting 12 to 17 named storms — five to nine of which will become hurricanes — in its Atlantic hurricane outlook for the upcoming 2023 season released Thursday.This would be considered an average season in the Atlantic basin, however there's a little more uncertainty than usual heading into the coming months due to two competing factors which could swing the season one way or the other.Satellite image of post-tropical storm Fiona over the Maritimes on…

The Atlantic hurricane season is just over the horizon, and we can expect a near-normal year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this Thursday. Hurricanes and Climate | Extreme EarthIn a forecast for the 2023 hurricane season, NOAA projected that there’s only a 30% chance of an above-active season. There’s a 40% chance of a near-normal season and a 30% chance that this year will see below-normal storm activity. Hurricane season officially lasts from June 1 to November 30and reaches its peak in the…

After a few years of heightened risk, the Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up to look pretty average for 2023. That’s thanks to an unusually long-lasting weather pattern called La Niña finally ending, with its counterpart, El Niño, expected to soon develop. The caveat is that there’s more uncertainty in this year’s seasonal forecast than normal because of unusually warm temperatures in the Atlantic. Those factors tend to have opposite effects on hurricane season. El Niño generally ushers in milder storms in the…

Tevina Willis taped up her windows as Superstorm Sandy neared her Red Hook, Brooklyn, home. Outside her apartment, hurricane winds pushed a wall of water into the city. The storm surge swept boats from the harbor onto streets turned into rivers. Willis rode it out. “I had been through hurricanes in the projects when I was a child,” she says. “I knew just to be calm and sit away from the windows, away from glass.” Two days later, the storm subsided. But for Willis and others in Red Hook, the…

Two hurricane-monitoring NASA CubeSats have launched into space atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 1:00 pm NZST, on May 8, (9:00 pm EDT, on May 7).The 36th Electron launch went off without serious mishap, reaching its planned trajectory and the second stage performing as predicted after which a kick stage sent the payload into a circular orbit around the Earth. The first CubeSat established communications with Mission Control at 1:48 am EDT and the…

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