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"Just wondering why we haven't seen more Cat5's hitting the US"
Thanks, Obama.
Why do you think "hitting the US" is important? We're only something like 3 per cent of the globe. This is a bit old....
A decade of monster hurricanes
By Chris Mooney on Nov 18, 2013
Super Typhoon Haiyan as it made landfall in the Philippines. NOAAEarlier this month, Super Typhoon Haiyan stunned the meteorological community. The Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which tracked the storm, estimated its maximum one-minute sustained wind speeds at more than 195 miles per hour based on satellite imagery. If confirmed, that would exceed the official wind speed estimates for all other hurricanes and typhoons in the modern period. (Prior to 1969, some Pacific storms were recorded as stronger, but these measurements are now considered too high.)
But here’s the thing: Haiyan isn’t the globe’s only record-breaking hurricane in recent years. Even as scientists continue to study and debate whether global warming is making hurricanes worse, hurricanes have continued to set new intensity records. Indeed, a Climate Desk analysis of official hurricane recordsfinds that many of the globe’s hurricane basins — including the Atlantic, the Northwest Pacific, the North Indian, the South Indian, and the South Pacific — have witnessed (or, in the case of Haiyan and the Northwest Pacific, arguablywitnessed) some type of new hurricane intensity record since the year 2000. What’s more, a few regions that aren’t usually considered major hurricane basins have also seen mammoth storms of late.
grist.org
Since this article,
Hurricane Patricia: The strongest hurricane ever recorded is headed for Mexico...
Oct 23, 2015
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Monster Storm Becomes Strongest on Record for Alaska
November 12, 2014; 7:53 AM ET
A powerful storm has moved into the Bering Sea and has become the most intense storm to ever impact the region.
The former Super Typhoon Nuri has tracked northward into the Bering Sea, located in between Alaska and Russia, and has lost all tropical characteristics.
accuweather.com
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Cyclone Fantala: Indian Ocean's most powerful storm on record
Apr 20, 2016 - The third record-breaking storm in under a year might owe its ferocity ...Cyclone Fantala Just Became the IndianOcean's Most Powerful Storm .
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Also, I don't think it includes the Arctic, and the Great Arctic Cyclone of '12.
As of Tuesday, the deepest cyclone in the Northern Hemisphere wasn’t anywhere near the tropics--it was spinning in the central Arctic Ocean. A surface low located near 83°N, about 500 miles from the North Pole and about 1000 miles north of Barrow, Alaska, deepened to a central pressure of 968 millibars (mb) at 2 am EDT Tuesday morning, August 16. This is on par with the central pressure you might find in a moderately-sized Category 2 hurricane. Such lows are a common feature of Arctic climate, but they rarely gain such intensity in the middle of summer. The only deeper Arctic cyclone on record in August is the Great Arctic Cyclone (GAC) of 2012. According to a 2012 study by Ian Simmonds and Irina Rudeva (University of Melbourne), this low bottomed out at 966 mb on August 6, yielding the lowest pressure analyzed across more than 1600 August cyclones in the Arctic since 1979. The cyclone's minimum pressure was even lower--963 mb--in the real-time analyses produced by Environment Canada while the storm was raging.
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