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Scientists predict more major hurricanes than normal in 2020 season
- Subject: Scientists predict more major hurricanes than normal in 2020 season
- From: sean at donelan.com (Sean Donelan)
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 13:02:50 -0400 (EDT)
How is ISPs hurricane response planning going?
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/490821-scientists-predict-more-major-hurricanes-than-normal-in-2020-season
Meteorologists are forecasting a significant hurricane and tropical storm
season for the Atlantic coast in 2020, according to researchers at
Colorado State University.
[...]
According to the early projections, there is a 69 percent chance that at
least one major hurricane will make landfall along a U.S. coastline in
2020, compared to a regular average of 52 percent that has been reported
over the last century.
[...]
"Two of the last three years have had major hurricane landfalls in the
U.S.," Miller said.
He added that before 2017, there was a 12-year drought without a single
major hurricane landfall in the country, from Hurricane Wilma in 2005 to
Hurricane Harvey in 2017.