5/18/2023 0 Comments Aftermath of hurricane idaEleven fatalities were in Queens and two were in Brooklyn, NYPD Chief of Department Rodney Harrison said at a briefing. By Thursday evening, officials said New York City’s death toll had reached 13, while noting that the numbers were preliminary. In the Northeast, a weakened storm killed at least eight times that many. On the Gulf Coast, Ida killed at least five people. Most residents didn’t see it coming, sometimes with fatal consequences. “It was the perfect set-up for extreme rainfall, and unfortunately, it happened over one of the most populous corridors of the United States,” Taylor said. In Central Park, 3.15 inches fell in one hour, setting a record, Taylor said. An area from eastern Pennsylvania to southern New England, including New York, got as much as 8 inches of rain in a few hours. NYC rain weather ida GETTY subCars sit abandoned on the flooded Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx. The storm collided with the jet stream at the hottest time of the day, when the air was already unstable, said Zack Taylor, a meteorologist with the US Weather Prediction Center. Its path through the Northeast had been predicted for days, but its strength was a surprise. This would place it fifth on the list of the most costly hurricanes to hit the U.S., behind Katrina, Harvey, Maria, and Sandy. Surprise attack Ida’s parting hit on New York and the Northeast likely pushed the storm’s overall economic losses and damages into the $50 billion to $60 billion range, said Chuck Watson, a disaster modeler with Enki Research. Climate scientists say the cyclogenesis or triggering of very severe cyclonic storms in Bay The summer has already brought deadly flooding in Tennessee and Germany, heat waves shattering all-time temperature records in western Canada, and wildfires raging in California and Greece. In the past 12 months, there have been four cyclonic storms in Bay of Bengal - severe cyclone Amphan (May 16-21), severe cyclone Nivar (Nov 22-26), cyclonic storm Burevi (Nov 30-Dec 5) and Yaas (May 23-27). Rising surface temperature at sea behind frequent cyclones: Experts
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