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How To Manage Forests In Hurricane Impact Zones (April 24, 2007) -- Forest Service researchers have developed an adaptive strategy to help natural resource managers in the southeastern United States both prepare for and respond to disturbance from major hurricanes. ... > full story

Global Warming Increases Wind Shear, Reduces Hurricanes, Climate Model Shows (April 18, 2007) -- Climate model simulations for the 21st century indicate a robust increase in wind shear in the tropical Atlantic due to global warming, which may inhibit hurricane development and intensification. ... > full story

New Satellite Coverage In South America To Limit Effects Of Natural Disasters (April 17, 2007) -- South Americans, and millions more in the Western Hemisphere, are benefitting from the reposition of NOAA's GOES-10 spacecraft, a move designed to lessen the effects of natural disasters in the ... > full story

Hurricane Katrina And 2004 Tsunami Caused Surprisingly Similar Destruction (April 12, 2007) -- Two of the world's worst natural disasters in recent years stemmed from different causes on opposite sides of the globe, but actually had much in common, according to researchers studying both the ... > full story

Very Active 2007 Hurricane Season Predicted (April 3, 2007) -- The U.S. Atlantic basin will likely experience a very active hurricane season, the Colorado State University forecast team announced today, increasing its earlier prediction for the 2007 hurricane ... > full story

New Analysis: Should Improve Hurricane And Storm Surge Modeling (April 2, 2007) -- Scientists have directly derived the air-sea momentum exchange at the ocean interface using observed ocean currents under Hurricane Ivan and determined that it decreases when winds exceed 32 meters ... > full story

Did Dust Bust The 2006 Hurricane Season Forecasts? (March 29, 2007) -- A recent NASA study suggests that tiny dust particles may have foiled forecasts that the 2006 hurricane season would be another active ... > full story

Prehistoric Hurricane Activity Uncovered (March 21, 2007) -- Hurricanes Katrina and Rita focused the international spotlight on the vulnerability of the US coastline. Fears that a "super-hurricane" could make a direct hit on a major city and cause even more ... > full story

NASA Peers Deep Inside Hurricanes (March 14, 2007) -- Determined to understand why some storms grow into hurricanes while others fizzle, NASA scientists recently looked deep into thunderstorms off the African coast using satellites and ... > full story

Hurricane Can Form New Eyewall And Change Intensity Rapidly (March 7, 2007) -- Data collected in 2005 from Hurricane Rita is providing the first documented evidence that rapid intensity changes can be caused by clouds outside the wall of a hurricane's eye coming together to ... > full story

Researchers Explore Greenland's Impact On Weather Systems (March 5, 2007) -- Science doesn't always happen at a lab bench. For University of Toronto Mississauga physicist Kent Moore, it happens while strapped into a four-point harness, flying head-on into hurricane-force ... > full story

New Evidence That Global Warming Fuels Stronger Atlantic Hurricanes (March 2, 2007) -- Atmospheric scientists have uncovered fresh evidence to support the hotly debated theory that global warming has contributed to the emergence of stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic ... > full story

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List of major natural disasters in the United States -- This is a list of major natural disasters in the United ... > full article

National Hurricane Center -- The U.S. National Hurricane Center is the division of National Weather Service's Tropical Prediction Center responsible for tracking and predicting the likely behavior of tropical depressions, ... > full article

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale -- The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a scale classifying most Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the levels of "tropical depression" and "tropical storm" and thereby become ... > full article

Cyclone Gafilo -- Cyclone Gafilo was a powerful tropical cyclone which struck Madagascar in March 2004, causing devastating damage. At least 250 people were listed dead, with more missing, and 300,000 people were left ... > full article

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Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina -- The meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina, an extremely destructive hurricane which was Category 5 at its peak, starts from its formation over the southeastern Bahamas as Tropical Depression ... > full article

Great Hurricane of 1780 -- The Great Hurricane of 1780 is considered the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclone of all time. About 22,000 people died when the storm pounded Barbados, Martinique, and Sint Eustatius in the Lesser ... > full article

Typhoon Tip -- Typhoon Tip was the most intense and largest tropical cyclone on record. The storm weakened greatly before landfall, but still caused widespread flood damage across most of Japan during the 1979 ... > full article

Hurricane Opal -- Hurricane Opal was a major hurricane that formed in the Gulf of Mexico in September 1995. It struck the YucatÃĄn Peninsula, then churned in the Gulf before making landfall a second time on the ... > full article

List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes -- This is a list of all Atlantic hurricanes that have reached Category 5, the highest classification of tropical cyclone intensity on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane ... > full article

Hurricane Agnes -- Hurricane Agnes was the first tropical storm and first hurricane of 1972 Atlantic hurricane season. A rare June hurricane, it made landfall on Florida before moving northeastward and hitting New ... > full article

Hurricane Andrew -- Hurricane Andrew was one of the most destructive hurricanes ever to hit the United States. It raged from August 16 to August 28 during the 1992 Atlantic hurricane season, impacting the northwestern ... > full article

List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes -- This is a list of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes. A Category 5 hurricane, on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, is the most catastrophic hurricane that can form. They are rare in the eastern Pacific ... > full article

Storm surge -- A storm surge is an onshore rush of water associated with a low pressure weather system, typically a tropical cyclone. Storm surge is caused primarily by high winds pushing on the ocean's ... > full article

1991 Halloween Nor'easter -- The 1991 Halloween Nor'easter, also known as the Perfect Storm, was an unusual and very powerful nor'easter combining an extratropical low and two hurricanes in October of ... > full article

Hurricane Hazel -- Hurricane Hazel was the worst hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season and one of the worst hurricanes of the 20th century. Hazel killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the ... > full article

Hurricane Charley -- Hurricane Charley was the third named storm, the second hurricane, and the second major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane ... > full article

Hurricane Hugo -- Hurricane Hugo was a destructive Category 5 hurricane that struck Puerto Rico, St. Croix, South Carolina and North Carolina in September of the 1989 Atlantic hurricane season, killing at least 70 ... > full article

Hurricane Emily (2005) -- Hurricane Emily was the fifth named storm, third hurricane, second major hurricane and first Category 5 of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane ... > full article

Preparations for Hurricane Katrina -- This article covers the details of the Preparations for Hurricane Katrina, a major category 5 hurricane that devastated parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. By August 26 2005, the ... > full article