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Felix: first time two Category-5 storms hit land in same season mongabay.com September 4, 2007
Coming just two weeks after Hurricane Dean hit Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Felix is the second Category 5 storm to hit Central America this year. It is the first time on record that two Category 5 storms have made landfall in a single hurricane season, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Hurricane Dean was the third most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall.
Three Category 5 Hurricanes have made landfall in the United States since 1900. By 11 a.m. ET, Felix had weakened to a Category 3 hurricane. To date there are no reports of fatalities though two fishing boats are missing off the coast of Nicaragua according to CNN, though there is heavy damage in the Nicaraguan town of Puerto Cabezas. Scientists note that Felix has made landfall at an unusually low altitude for a Category 5 hurricane. Related Tree rings could settle global warming hurricane debate -- 9/19/2006 Scientists have shown that ancient tree rings could help settle the debate as to whether hurricanes are strengthening in intensity due to global warming. Global warming is causing stronger Atlantic hurricanes finds new study -- 3/01/2007 Global warming is fueling stronger hurricanes according to a new Geophysical Research Letters study that revises that database of historic hurricanes. Previously the hurricane database was considered inconsistent for measuring the record of tropical storms since there have been significant improvements in the technology to measure storms since recording-keeping began. Before the development of weather satellites, scientists relied on ship reports and sailor logs to record storms. The advent of weather satellites in the 1960s improved monitoring, but records from newer technology have never been squared with older data. The new study "normalizes" the hurricane record since 1983. Hurricane intensity linked to global warming -- 8/15/2006 A new study says climate change is affecting the intensity of Atlantic hurricanes and that hurricane damage will likely worsen in coming years due to increasing ocean temperatures. Unlike recent studies that have linked higher sea temperatures to an increase in the number of hurricanes, the new research shows a direct relationship between climate change and hurricane intensity. Global warming link to hurricanes challenged -- 7/31/2006 Chris Landsea, a storm researcher at the National Hurricane Center, and colleagues argued in a paper published in the journal Science that improvements in technology now allow forecasters to produce more accurate estimates of a storm's power, meaning that more hurricanes are now recognized as Category 4 and 5 storms than prior to the 1980s. They said that the storm databases used by researchers who found links between hurricanes and warmer sea temperatures contain inaccurate information. Number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has nearly doubled over past 35 years -- 9/16/2005 The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped since the 1990s, according to a study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The shift occurred as global sea surface temperatures have increased over the same period. The research appears in the September 16 issue of Science. News index | RSS | Add to MyYahoo! Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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