hurricane
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Those emissions are making our oceans hotter and our atmosphere able to hold more water, producing the ingredients for a really bad hurricane, no matter where it makes landfall, either Palm Beach or Pittsburgh.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Lala strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Saturday, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, as it approached the southern end of the Big Island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Iniki, a powerful category four storm, was the last hurricane to strike Hawaii back in 1992.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
El Nino, a natural climate pattern when sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean become unusually warm, tends to promote hurricane activity in the Pacific while suppressing it in the Atlantic.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
They had just spent half the night walking through a hurricane and he was worrying about helmets.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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We can expect a lot more extreme weather disasters, including hurricanes, droughts and floods, as a result.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Potential compromises: The possibility of hurricanes and the rising cost of homeowners insurance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
At least three hurricanes have developed in the central and eastern Pacific since July, including Hurricanes Fausto and Genevieve, which generated life-threatening waves, strong rip currents and high surf warnings for Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Or, we see today, incipient floods, tornadoes and hurricanes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
In the winter the frigid air that flows north from the Pole creates one cyclone after another and collides with warmer air from the tropics, spinning off gales, hurricanes, and blizzards.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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