No Major U.S. Hurricane Landfalls in Nine Years: Luck?
The United States hasn’t experienced the landfall of a Category 3 or larger hurricane in nine years – a string of years that’s likely to come along only once every 177 years, according to a new NASA study.
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Precipitation Shaft
A visible column of rain and/or hail falling from a cloud base. When viewed against a light background, heavy precipitation appears very dark gray, sometimes with a turquoise tinge. This turquoise tinge has been commonly attributed to hail, but its actual cause is unknown.
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Source: Timothy Hall, a research scientist who studies hurricanes at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, in comments made as a new NASA study noted that the United States hasn’t experienced the landfall of a Category 3 or larger hurricane in nine years – a string of years that’s likely to come along only once every 177 years.
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