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hyperhurricane en · NOUN

Etymology

From hyper- + hurricane.

Meanings

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. 1988, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy, U.S. Government Printing Office Press, page 40:
   • 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, New Scientist,Volume 164, Issues 2206-2214, IPC Magazines, page 31:
   • It took an effort to keep her eyes off Saturn. The planet bulked huge and looming, nearly ten times bigger than Earth, striped with soft tan and muted yellow clouds whipping along at hyperhurricane velocities. 2005, Ben Bova, Titan, Tor, →ISBN, page 18:
   • 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." 1999 September 26, Sharon Begley, “‘Floyd's Watery Wrath”, in www.newsweek.com, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2015:

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