North Atlantic Hurricanes
Faculty Mentor
Richard Orndorff
Presentation Type
Poster
Start Date
May 2025
End Date
May 2025
Location
PUB NCR
Primary Discipline of Presentation
Geosciences
Abstract
Hurricanes are massive, destructive, and becoming more frequent. In this presentation, I explain what a hurricane is, why we care about them, and what insurance companies look for when deciding whether to add an insurance policy for a house in places like Florida. There is also a section including the cost of the most destructive hurricanes to hit the United States, although the damage analysis includes the cost incurred by other countries hit by those same hurricanes. I use statistical analyses to determine how many hurricanes we are likely to experience in the US over the next ten years, and the results are very telling. Due to global warming, the frequency of hurricanes has increased drastically. This can be demonstrated by comparing 169 years of hurricane data to the last 20 years of the record. This does not include 2020-2025, as the records end in 2019. With educated guessing and this comparison, it can be assumed that things have only gotten worse since then. This presentation concludes with a message about heeding global warming signs and changing our attitude towards the Earth as humans in general. This presentation does not include what to do about global warming for the sake of brevity.
Recommended Citation
Bialozor, Mattie Elise, "North Atlantic Hurricanes" (2025). 2025 Symposium. 14.
https://dc.ewu.edu/srcw_2025/ps_2025/p2_2025/14
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North Atlantic Hurricanes
PUB NCR
Hurricanes are massive, destructive, and becoming more frequent. In this presentation, I explain what a hurricane is, why we care about them, and what insurance companies look for when deciding whether to add an insurance policy for a house in places like Florida. There is also a section including the cost of the most destructive hurricanes to hit the United States, although the damage analysis includes the cost incurred by other countries hit by those same hurricanes. I use statistical analyses to determine how many hurricanes we are likely to experience in the US over the next ten years, and the results are very telling. Due to global warming, the frequency of hurricanes has increased drastically. This can be demonstrated by comparing 169 years of hurricane data to the last 20 years of the record. This does not include 2020-2025, as the records end in 2019. With educated guessing and this comparison, it can be assumed that things have only gotten worse since then. This presentation concludes with a message about heeding global warming signs and changing our attitude towards the Earth as humans in general. This presentation does not include what to do about global warming for the sake of brevity.
