FEROCIOUS STORMS AND DROUGHT SEEN December 07, 1988 Dr. Hansen
cited a model prepared by another scientist, Dr. Kerry Emmanuel,
showing that the global warming trend is likely to intensify the
severity of storms. He said the warming of the ocean would speed
evaporation, which would cause more active convection currents
in the atmosphere. This increased atmospheric activity could
produce storms with 40 percent to 50 percent more kinetic energy
than the fiercest storms known today. Hurricanes packing winds
up to 225 miles an hour are foreseen. Their ingenious prediction
had already happened in 1934 World Record Wind Gust: 408 km/h
Geneva, 22 January 2010 (WMO) – According to a recent review
conducted by a panel of experts in charge of global weather and
climate extremes within the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl)
the record of wind gusts not related to tornados registered to
date is 408 km/h during Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996
at Barrow Island, Australia. The previous record was of 372
km/h, reg