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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Hurricanes and Global Warming

March 4, 2008 – 8:38 pm

A recent report published in the February 2008 edition of the Natural Hazards Review, which was written by researchers from the National Hurricane Center, along with researchers from Universities and private weather and insurance firms, seems to indicate that global warming has not caused a significant increase in destruction from hurricanes. In fact, it may [...]

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2008 Hurricane Names

March 2, 2008 – 5:01 pm

 

A little history first….
Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center since about 1953. The list of storm names are maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization.
Back in the day, the original name lists (six of them) featured only women’s names, however in 1979, men’s names [...]

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