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New metric to measure destructive potential of hurricanes
2013-04-26 23:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers at Florida State University have developed a new metric to measure seasonal Atlantic tropical cyclone activity that focuses on the size of storms in addition to the duration and intensity, a measure that may prove important when considering a hurricane's potential for death and destruction. The 2012 hurricane was only a Category 2 storm on the often referenced Saffir-Simpson scale when it became the largest hurricane on record, killing 285 people in its path in seven different countries...
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