飓风季:风暴是如何形成的?[视频]

大西洋飓风季于6月1日星期日正式开始,持续到11月30日。上周,各机构发布了关于可能形成多少飓风以及可能有多少大型飓风的预测。

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大西洋飓风季于6月1日星期日正式开始,持续到11月30日。上周,各机构发布了关于可能形成多少飓风以及可能有多少大型飓风的预测。 负责监管国家气象局的美国国家海洋和大气管理局预测今年的飓风季将低于平均水平,将有三到六个飓风,其中只有一到两个会达到3级或更高强度。 独立商业机构天气频道预测将有五个飓风,其中两个将达到3级或更高强度。

这些年度预测可能会有相当大的偏差。它们通常在正确的范围内,但考虑到这个范围小于12,这并不算夸张。今年的一个因素是,气象学家看到越来越多的证据表明,强大的厄尔尼诺现象将在夏季在太平洋赤道地区发展。这往往会增加横跨中大西洋的风切变,这可能有助于瓦解那里正在形成的飓风,尽管并非总是如此。所以我们将拭目以待。

我们对飓风如何形成的理解要精确得多。我们制作了一个视频和动画来解释这一点,您可以在下面观看。


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大西洋上形成的飓风通常在非洲海岸附近形成,并横跨热带地区。一旦出现这些扰动之一,国家飓风中心就会开始对其进行跟踪,并提供详尽的细节。您可以在该中心的飓风页面上跟踪。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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