Waiting for the Big One
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But many scientists agree: A quake is coming. And New York isn’t ready for it.
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Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But many scientists agree: A quake is coming. And New York isn’t ready for it.
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But many scientists agree: A quake is coming. And New York isn’t ready for it.
Forecasting these “rapid intensification” events is a challenge, in part because we do not fully understand the science behind rapid intensification.'
Hurricane rapid intensification has often led to inaccurate forecasts in the past. Click to read more.
Hurricanes that rapidly intensify for mysterious reasons pose a particularly frightening threat to those in harm's way. Forecasters have struggled for many years to understand why a seemingly commonplace tropical depression or tropical storm sometimes blows up into a major hurricane, packing catastrophic winds and driving a potentially deadly surge of water toward shore.