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...tattered remains of Hurricane Isabel blew off over Canada last week, the once formidable Category 5 storm left in its wake not only flooded streets, downed power lines and grieving families but also a sense of rising menace. That's because a growing number of scientists believe that conditions favorable for brewing more and even bigger hurricanes in the Atlantic locked into place about eight years ago and will probably persist for at least a decade and maybe longer. "We're not talking about a minor little increase," says Stanley Goldenberg, a hurricane expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
...Atlantic hurricane formation is by increasing or decreasing vertical wind shear, the difference in wind speed and direction at different levels of the atmosphere. Too much shear can disrupt the structure of a hurricane's eyewall, whereas more uniform winds allow a hurricane to grow to maximum potential. When Isabel briefly exploded into a Category 5 storm, wind shear was low, and its eyewall formed a nearly flawless cone of clouds some 60,000 ft. high. In the eyewall itself, winds whirled at an epic 230 m.p.h. "When we got into the eye," says Colorado State University atmospheric scientist Michael...
Blowing in the Wind U.S. At least 23 people were killed and more than 3 million left without electricity after the Category 2 Hurricane Isabel whipped up the East Coast of the U.S. Downgraded from the maximum Category 5 - the first in the Atlantic since...
Though its game with the Spiders was previously scheduled for today, Harvard will wait to start its weekend until Saturday due to predicted inclement weather from Hurricane Isabel...
...Isabel C. Gonzalez