hyperhurricane

English

Alternative forms

• hyper hurricane
• hyper-hurricane

Etymology

hyper- +‎ hurricane

Noun

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."