Meanings
nounhyper-hurricane (plural hyper-hurricanes)
plural hyper-hurricanes
- alternativeAlternative form of hyperhurricane.
Liu (2007) and Liu & Fearn (2009) note a similar period of hyper-hurricane activity along the central-eastern U.S. Gulf Coast between 3,800 and 1,000 years ago based on the multiple sand layers found in sediment cores taken between Lousiana and western Florida.
2012, Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang and Robert Gillies, Modern Climatology, page 238
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