If you’re considering moving to Houston, you’re not alone. As the fourth-largest city in the U.S., Houston attracts over 250 newcomers daily with its affordable living, booming job market, and ...

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University of Houston--Downtown is a public institution where all of the online graduate-level criminal justice classes are recorded and archived so that students can access lecture material at ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Back-to-back disasters rocked Houston last ... followed by Hurricane Beryl in July. Both events brought gale-force winds to the densely built downtown, with gusts exceeding 90 ...

Less than one year after a derecho slammed Houston and caused significant damage to Downtown structures, a new study says buildings designed to withstand hurricane-force gusts are at a heightened ...

The derecho's winds peaked at 40 meters per second, well below that threshold. And when Hurricane Beryl hit Houston that July with roughly comparable wind speeds of 36 meters per second ...

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1 and will run for 183 days through Nov. 30. Tropical activity can form outside these dates because warm water and favorable atmospheric ...

Although most Floridians are still reeling from last year's storms, we're now only 100 days out from the start of hurricane season. In May 2024, NOAA predicted an "extraordinary" season of 17 to ...

All conformed to the construction standard which dictates that tall buildings be designed to withstand winds up to 67 meters per second, corresponding to a category 4 hurricane. Wind speeds measured ...

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1 and will run for 183 days through Nov. 30. Tropical activity can form outside these dates because warm water and favorable atmospheric ...

In contrast, these tall buildings sustained minimal damage during hurricane Beryl, which hit Houston on July 8th, 2024. The maximum wind speed measured in downtown Houston during Beryl was 36 ...