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hyperhurricane

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From hyper- +‎ hurricane.

Noun

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hyperhurricane (plural hyperhurricanes)

  1. Hypercane.
    • 1988, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy[1], U.S. Government Printing Office Press, page 40:
      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.
    • 1999, New Scientist,Volume 164, Issues 2206-2214[2], IPC Magazines, page 31:
      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.
    • 1999 September 26, Sharon Begley, “‘Floyd's Watery Wrath”, in www.newsweek.com[3], archived from the original on 20 June 2015:
      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."