Topic: Hurricanes and Cyclones
Global warming raises Taiwan typhoon danger
AFP Global Edition
Global warming is raising the danger from typhoons, Taiwan experts warned Monday, saying the island may be hit in a year or two by a powerful storm like the one which killed more than 700 last August. Typhoon Morakot dumped a record 3,000 millimetres (120 inches) of rainfall and ...
NH hotel fire fanned by strong wind destroys block
AP News
NH oceanfront hotel fire fanned by winds near hurricane force destroys block of 5 businessesA fire that started in an unoccupied oceanfront hotel was fanned by hurricane-force winds and spread to several nearby buildings, engulfing and destroying an entire block of businesses on a stretch of Hampton Beach popular with ...
Tropical storms to be more intense but less frequent: climate study
AFP Global Edition
Tropical cyclones may become less frequent this century but pack a stronger punch as a result of global warming, a paper published on Sunday said. The study is an overview of work into one of the scariest yet also one of the least understood aspects of climate change. Known in ...
Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes
AP News
Experts settle hurricane and global warming feud; predict bigger storms, but fewer onesTop researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough ...
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