Sentences with phrase «[polar cyclones»

The cyclone core proved to be a roadblock.

Using the suction apparatuses he saw in a sawmill as inspiration, he built his own vacuum that incorporated a cone - like cyclone system that could separate dirt particles from clean air.

The DC01 was different from other cleaners because it had at its core Dyson's dual - cyclone technology, which uses two rotating barrels to create suction.

You can see the Joalane tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean (top right).

In areas further north where the cyclone made landfall, water and power were still being restored.

The Pilbara Ports Authority has begun clearing large vessels out of the ports of Dampier and Ashburton, ahead of a cyclone which is expected to hit the Pilbara coast by tomorrow morning.

The bone - chilling winter weather that has taken over vast swaths of America's East Coast — and is expected to intensify later this week as a «bomb cyclone» descends on the Northeastern U.S. — has already led to at least 11 known deaths, CNN reports.

You can follow the National Weather Service to stay up to date on the «bomb cyclone» and winter storms in the coming days and to receive safety information.

Since then it's taken the first - ever photos of Jupiter's poles, discovered atmospheric «rivers» of ammonia, watched 870 - mile - wide cyclones swirl, recorded mysterious auroras, and probed deep into the planet's thick cloud tops for evidence of a solid core, among other feats.

The cyclone is expected to lose much of its punch over land but meteorologists warned it could reform again if it reaches the warm waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 250 km (155 miles) from the coast.

The cyclone is small in terms of area but has entered a climatic environment in which rapid intensification can occur, meteorologists said.

Emergency workers were counting on the cyclone coming ashore close to a low tide, mitigating the force of a storm surge.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said up to 9,000 people could be directly in the path of the cyclone by the time it builds to category four strength, the second highest level.

The previous record for the lower 48 states was established in 1978 by cyclone Amelia, in Medina, Texas, according to the NWS Houston Twitter account.

Since then, it has taken the first - ever photos of Jupiter's poles, discovered atmospheric «rivers» of ammonia, watched 870 - mile - wide cyclones swirl, recorded mysterious auroras, and probed deep into the planet's thick cloud tops for evidence of a solid core, among other feats.

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

Juno found cyclones as big as 870 miles (1,400 km) in diameter swirling over Jupiter's north and south poles, shows the research published in this week's issue of the journal Science.

Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

The storm will continue through Thursday and is expected to deliver several inches of snow as it moves up the coast in what meteorologists are calling a «bomb cyclone.»

The storm has continued to grow increasingly powerful in a process called bombogenesis — known to some as a bomb cyclone — which occurs when a system's central air pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours.

A massive and powerful cyclone slammed into India's east coast on Saturday, sending nearly half a million people seeking shelter.

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will provide an aid package of C$ 150,000 to India for relief efforts in the aftermath of the cyclone that devastated India's eastern shores, Minister for International Cooperation, Maria Minna, announced yesterday.

According to data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service, Hurricane Harvey was the wettest cyclone in U.S. history with a recorded 60.58 inches of rainfall in Nederland, Texas.

The Cordillera Central mountain range that forms the spine of the island of Puerto Rico acted as a juicer for Hurricane Maria, Huffman explained, rapidly squeezing out 20 to 36 inches of rain from the cyclone.

Weather modification has a long, sordid history and hurricanes have inspired some of the more far - fetched proposals, from bombarding cyclones with sonic booms from aircraft to beaming down microwaves from space into nascent storms.

Downpours go hand in hand with hurricanes, since the cyclones are powered by evaporating and condensing moisture.

«At this point it's really uncertain if there's any detectable human influence on any hurricane or tropical cyclone metric,» Tom Knutson, an NOAA meteorologist who studies hurricanes, told Vox in October.

Shortly after the strongest tropical cyclone to ever make landfall struck the central Philippines we mounted our largest international relief operation in years.

Its emergency response team responds to an average of 30 natural disasters and humanitarian crises worldwide each year from earthquakes and cyclones to disease outbreaks and civil conflict.

OPEC efforts are not the key driver here but the reduced oil production US shale due to the cyclone episodes and the bullish drama created by the brokers.

After a long winter full of bomb cyclones and last - minute flurries, you aren't willing to wait until the mercury hits the teens to get to your home away from home.

In advance of the upcoming season of heavy rain and cyclones, Canada's contribution...

«There is a risk of a severe tropical cyclone impacting the Pilbara or far west Kimberley coast during Friday or early on Saturday,» the bureau said via Twitter.

The cyclone's most likely trajectory, as forecast by the bureau, would see Cyclone Joyce bisect the towns of Tom Price and Newman by late on Saturday, meaning the cyclone is headed towards the heart of the Pilbara iron ore mining region.

Prices could yet rise further as a cyclone begins to form off the coast of Western Australia, potentially threatening supply from the iron - rich pilbara region

«At this point it's really uncertain if there's any detectable human influence on any hurricane or tropical cyclone metric,» Tom Knutson, an NOAA meteorologist who studies hurricanes, says.

Tropical cyclones — which are called typhoons, cyclones, or hurricanes depending on where you are — form in tropical regions the world over.

Christian Aid has joined with partners in India to provide aid for more than 350,000 people displaced by a huge cyclone in the country.

Maybe you're in the path of a catastrophic cyclone of terror.

Those cyclones are challenges and trials of your lives.

But for a century now people have realized that poverty is not a fate, not of the same nature as cyclones, but the result of forms of social and economic organization.

Disease Smallpox Measles Malaria Tuberculosis AIDS pandemic Seasonal influenza Cyclones (including hurricanes) 1970 Bhola cyclone 1839 Indian cyclone 1737 Calcutta cyclone Super Typhoon Nina — contributed to Banqiao Dam failure Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 Cyclone Nargis 1991 Bangladesh cyclone 1882 Bombay cyclone 1922 Swatow Typhoon 1864 Calcutta Cyclone Earthquakes 1556 Shaanxi earthquake 1976 Tangshan earthquake 526 Antioch earthquake 1920 Haiyuan earthquake 2004 Indonesian earthquake 1138 Aleppo earthquake 2010 Haiti earthquake 856 Damghan earthquake 893 Ardabil earthquake 1923 Great Kanto earthquake 1908 Messina earthquake 1948 Ashgabat earthquake 1290 Chihli earthquake 1755 Lisbon earthquake 1667 Shamakhi earthquake 2005 Kashmir earthquake 1727 Tabriz earthquake 1970 Ancash earthquake 1932 Changma earthquake 2008 Sichuan earthquake 1268 Cilicia earthquake 1693 Sicily earthquake 1935 Balochistan earthquake 1783 Calabrian earthquakes 1990 Manjil - Rudbar earthquake 1999 İzmit earthquake 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake 1797 Riobamba earthquake 1927 Gulang earthquake 1939 Erzincan earthquake 1202 Syria earthquake 1939 Chillán earthquake 1949 Khait earthquake 2003 Bam earthquake 1988 Spitak earthquake 1293 Kamakura earthquake 1976 Guatemala earthquake 1896 Meiji - Sanriku earthquake 1812 Caracas earthquake 1905 Kangra earthquake 2001 Gujarat earthquake 1970 Tonghai earthquake 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 1960 Agadir earthquake 1978 Tabas earthquake 1962 Bou'in - Zahra earthquake 1907 Qaratog earthquake 1968 Dasht - e Bayaz and Ferdows earthquake 1934 Bihar earthquake 1985 Mexico City earthquake 1509 Istanbul earthquake 1703 Apennine earthquakes 1703 Genroku earthquake 1854 Ansei - Nankai earthquake 1944 San Juan earthquake

Ten deadliest natural disasters of the past century 1931 China floods 1976 Tangshan earthquake 1970 Bhola cyclone 1920 Haiyuan earthquake 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami 2010 Haiti earthquake 1923 Great Kanto earthquake 2008 Cyclone Nargis 1991 Bangladesh cyclone 1948 Ashgabat earthquake Blizzards 1972 Iran blizzard 2008 Afghanistan blizzard Great Blizzard of 1888 1993 North American Storm Complex Schoolhouse Blizzard Hakko - da Mountains incident Armistice Day Blizzard 2008 Chinese winter storms 1995 Kazakh Blizzard Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 Communicable diseases Black Death Spanish Flu Plague of Justinian Third Pandemic of Bubonic Plague Antonine Plague Asian Flu Other deadly communicable diseases.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

It's thought to have been the world's strongest ever cyclone and hundreds of people are still living in makeshift accommodation.

They may need to discover and to re-tell a unifying story of the country Of course, this runs against the academic grain, which nurtures what it believes to be a healthy contempt for the nation (let alone its historic spiritual culture) and a self - protecting indifference to the local community In America, where unbalanced individuality and unbalanced diversity seem sacred, the wildness of history is blowing at cyclone force, and the ability to cope with it seems to be a dying art.

Famines in Africa, cyclones, war, squalid refugee camps: such global crises are turned into media dramas.

The news hit the West Feliciana community like a cyclone.

Churches and Christian charities are praying and sending help to Texas as the fiercest cyclone to hit... More

In my travels, I've come across grills fashioned from oxy / acetylene tanks, oil drums, discarded farm implements, and even rebar and recycled cyclone fencing.