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  • A hurricane-modeling company that helps insurers predict the cost of megastorms will launch a new, more sophisticated model on Monday that shows some homeowners living hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean are at greater risk than previously thought.

    New Hurricane Model Will Broaden Who's at Risk Erik Holm 2011

  • Many scientists are convinced that global warming will make the coming century an age of megastorms and freak weather of all sorts, from Biblical droughts to epic blizzards.

    Blown To The Future 2008

  • Environmentally, the world stands at the brink, as our own shortsightedness and greed propel us into an unknown landscape of megastorms and flooded coastlines.

    Peace, order and good government, eh?: April 2006 Archives 2006

  • Is all this talk of monsters and megastorms and snowmageddon just irresponsible hyperbole?

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The ice melt, whatever causes it, will increase heat content in the oceans, unleashing much greater amounts of evapotranspiration, water in the atmo that will create megastorms.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Last week's megastorms barely made a dent in reservoir levels

    NBC San Diego - 2010

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