Atlantic Storms Have Doubled in 100 years
The quantity of tropical storms developed yearly in the Atlantic Ocean have doubled in the last century, some scientists said.
Those increments coincide with a increment of the temperature in the sea surface, due largely to the atmosphere warming caused by industrial gases, the researchers Greg J. Holland y Peter J. Webster said. Their discoveries were published online on last Sunday in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London magazine.
But an official at the National (US) Hurricane Center called this research as “sloppy science” and he said that the reason for the increment is an improvement in the technology of the instruments and devices that are used to examine the storms.
Between 1905 and 1930, the Atlantic-Gulf Coast area averaged six tropical storms per year, and four of these became hurricanes. Now the average is close to 15 storms with eight of these cataloged as hurricanes.
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July 30th, 2007 at 4:36 am
Well, this is not very good news if the storms continue to build in the same manner, as there are more people than ever living along the Eastern US and Gulf coasts. Hopefully, this year’s Hurrican season will be like last year with no storms making land fall.