Ten-Year Gap in Major Hurricanes Continues: Drought 2016
From Wikivideos
Source: images.nasa.gov
Video source record: https://images.nasa.gov/details-GSFC_20160527_Hurricanes_m12251_Drought2016
0:00 / --:--
Player mode uses your custom Wikivideos controls.
Summary
| Description | Could the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season break the 10-year “hurricane drought” record? It has been a decade since the last major hurricane, Category 3 or higher, has made landfall in the United States. This is the longest period of time for the United States to avoid a major hurricane since reliable records began in 1850. According to a NASA study, a 10-year gap comes along only every 270 years. The National Hurricane Center calls any Category 3 or more intense hurricane a “major” storm. It should be noted that hurricanes making landfall as less than Category 3 can still cause extreme damage, with heavy rains and coastal storm surges. Such was the case with Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Timothy Hall, a research scientist who studies hurricanes at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York and colleague Kelly Hereid, who works for ACE Tempest Re, a reinsurance firm based in Connecticut, ran a statistical hurricane model based on a record of Atlantic tropi |
|---|---|
| Date | 2016-05-27 |
| Source | images.nasa.gov |