Hurricane Odile bore down on the coastline this week. This prompted red alert in Mexico's Baja California. The Cabo San Lucas resort also received a red alert, because the major hurricane is threatening to result in flooding, high winds, heavy rains and a "dangerous" storm surge. At the moment, Odile is a category-3 storm according to the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. It had top winds of 125 … [Read more...]
Tropical storms shifting paths and moving towards poles
Hurricanes and Tropical storms are on the move, displaying the uglier side of mother nature.An examination of where the Hurricanes and Tropical storms hit at their most strongest point, which is known as their peak intensity, by the scientists have revealed that they are heading close towards the north and south poles. The push towards the poles average around 30 miles per decade. Places like … [Read more...]
Hurricanes likely to cause lot of complications with expansion of tropics
Tropical storms and hurricanes have reached their peak intensity and are seen to migrate at about 30 miles per decade as per the new study. If this is constant, major consequences can be caused for places such as Brisbane, Australia, Japan, Tokyo, New York City and other areas of high latitude, wherein intense hurricanes are not normally seen. The study that was published in this Journal … [Read more...]