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hyperhurricane

noun

Etymology

From hyper- + hurricane.

  1. derived from *hurakā✻
  2. borrowed from huracán
  3. prefixed as hyperhurricane — “hyper + hurricane”

Definitions

  1. Hypercane.

    • One of the proposed consequences of an increase in sea surface temperature is the existence of hyperhurricanes: that there would be, should be, many more very intense hurricanes, much more intense than we have ever seen in the past.
    • And if you thought the ice was hostile, picture this. With searing temperatures and soaring levels of CO2 would come torrents of acidic rain and howling hyperhurricanes.
    • Combine that with the arrival of a hyperhurricane period, says Gray, and "it is inevitable that we are going to see, in the years ahead, hurricane damage like we've never seen before."

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