After a year of record-breaking global heat with El Niño, will La Niña bring a reprieve? That depends on where you live and how you feel about hurricanes.
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The official forecast calls for a strong El Niño by winter, but other models suggest it might dip in and out. An atmospheric scientist explains.
El Niño years put Hawaii and the Mexican Riviera on alert for destructive tropical storms and hurricanes.
Two hurricane and climate scientists explain what’s known – and still unknown – about global warming’s influence on intensity, rainfall and much more.
With La Niña helping clear the way for a busy hurricane season, this wide current of warm water could spell disaster for the northern Gulf Coast.
New Orleans has about a 40% chance of getting hit by a tropical storm in any given year. Here’s how heat, winds and the shape of the seafloor raise the hurricane damage risk.
To get a sense of how bad the 2021 hurricane season will be, keep an eye on the African monsoon, ocean temperatures and a possible late-blooming La Niña.
Ccoronavirus has put emergency responders and resources under extreme pressure all over the world just as the hurricane season approaches.
With hurricane season comes the usual efforts by insurance companies and government agencies to calculate the economic costs. An economist explains how they’re doing it wrong.
For the start of Atlantic hurricane season on June 1, scholars explain weather forecasting, evacuation orders, inland flooding risks and how social ties influence decisions to stay or flee.
Storm clusters with even more power to devastate have been rising in frequency.
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Postdoctoral research associate, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Tampa
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Adjunct professor, Flagler College
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Associate Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Oceanography, University of Miami
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Lamont Research Professor of Ocean and Climate Physics, Columbia University
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Associate Research Scientist, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
