Sentences with phrase «as hurricane winds»

As hurricane winds increase, the force of the wind does not increase linearly, but exponentially.

As hurricane wind and rains soaked Miramar in southwest Broward, a huge oak tree with a root ball 4 - to 5 - feet long tipped.

Not exact matches

Forecasters predict that Hurricane Harvey could slam the Texas coast right before the weekend as a Category 3 storm, bringing winds in excess of 125 mph and dumping more than 25 inches of rain.

Harvey arrived on the shores of Texas as a hurricane Friday night, packing sustained wind speeds as high as 130 mph.

The «extremely dangerous» hurricane was downgraded from a Category 5 to a Category 4 early on Friday, but it still packed winds as strong as 155 miles per hour.

Hurricane Irma drove toward Florida as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind 21 deaths and a swathe of catastrophic destruction.

The «extremely dangerous» hurricane was downgraded from a category 5 to a category 4 early on Friday, but it still packed winds as strong as 155 miles per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an hurricane was downgraded from a category 5 to a category 4 early on Friday, but it still packed winds as strong as 155 miles per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an advisory.

As Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico early Wednesday morning, the powerful Category 4 storm is expected to leave «catastrophic damage» with winds up to 155 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind at least 21 deaths and a swath of destruction.

Hurricane Irma made landfall this weekend, lashing Florida with 130 m.p.h. winds as it moved up the coast.

Hurricane Maria made landfall at 6:15 am on September 20 in Yabucoa, in southeastern Puerto Rico, as a Category 4 storm with winds of 155 - 200 mph source.

September 2017 — Present / Virgin Islands On September 6, Hurricane Irma slammed into the US Virgin Islands as a category 5 hurricane.The islands suffered severe wind and flood damage, reducing many areas to rubble.

A big storm can escalate into a hurricane through sudden shifts in wind and pressure just as an economy can tumble into recession when a bubble bursts because of financial vulnerability.

With wind gales as strong as 160 mph, Hurricane Maria blasted through the country, damaging 90 % of all structures and knocking out all power, water and telecoms.

Hurricane Jose is a Category 4 storm as well; when it and Irma were at their peak strengths earlier this week, it was the first time two hurricanes with 150 - plus mph winds have been in the Atlantic at the same time.

The extent of the damage is unknown given that dozens of municipalities remained isolated and without communication after Maria hit the island Wednesday morning as a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years.

With tropical force winds reaching 230 miles from its center, Hurricane Maria completely engulfed Puerto Rico as it bisected the 100 - mile wide island, picking up steam again one it was clear.

Hurricane Harvey was one of the worst in Texas» history, but even as the winds die down, the damage from rain remains.

One hour of 30 - second #GOES16 vis imagery as Hurricane #Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys as a cat 4 with sustained winds of 130 MPH.

Irma smashed into Florida on Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane with 130 - mph winds.

As Hurricane #Maria exits Puerto Rico, it will spread its rain and strong winds into the Dominican Republic tonight: https://t.co/Q5QSF1M0fW pic.twitter.com/GsxMOZMcR 2

«Do not venture outside when the calm eye of the hurricane passes over, as dangerous winds will return very quickly when the eye moves away,» a forecaster warned in a previous advisory.

The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade came ashore late Friday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 130 mph (209 kph) winds.

After making landfall in Rockport, Texas, Friday night as a Category 4 storm with 130 - mph winds, Hurricane Harvey was downgraded to a tropical storm Saturday.

The storm began its life just west of Guinea - Bissau, Africa, on Aug. 27 as a non-tropical disturbance, with winds of just 29 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.

But what started out as a forceful gust of wind with the potential to transform into a hurricane has at least temporarily turned into nothing more than the passing of a springtime storm.

The National Weather Service warned last week that winds could get as high as 80 mph — in the range of a Category 1 hurricane — which was the first time the agency has activated the purple level threat warning in the state.

Hurricane Maria made landfall early Wednesday morning in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 Hurricane, packing 140 mph winds and dropping up to 25 inches of rain.

The best historical analogue for a hurricane that follows NHC's 5 pm EDT Friday track and intensity forecast for Irma may be Hurricane Donna of 1960, which tore through the Florida Keys just northeast of Marathon as a Category 4 storm with 140 mhurricane that follows NHC's 5 pm EDT Friday track and intensity forecast for Irma may be Hurricane Donna of 1960, which tore through the Florida Keys just northeast of Marathon as a Category 4 storm with 140 mHurricane Donna of 1960, which tore through the Florida Keys just northeast of Marathon as a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds.

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey was making the rounds in Brevard County around noon Sunday as Brevard waits for the arrival of heaving winds and storm surge from Hurricane Irma.

However, towards mid-September, we often see a seasonal tendency for prices to peak out, as the driving and hurricane seasons begin to wind down.

Hurricane Maria made landfall at 6:15 am on September 20 in Yabucoa, in southeastern Puerto Rico, as a Category 4 storm with winds of 155mph source.

La Nina, characterized by colder temperatures in the Pacific around the equator, affects weather in the Atlantic hurricane region as well, in the form of less wind in the tropics and therefore more hospitable conditions for hurricanes.

Irma made landfall Sept. 6 on the island of Barbuda as a Category 5 storm packing winds of up to 185 mph, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record and ultimately forcing the evacuation of the entire population of the island.

We have just experienced a night of howling wind and rain as Hurricane Irma edges ever closer towards us on Necker and the British Virgin Islands.

Like all hurricanes, this one tended to dissipate as it went north for reasons having nothing to do with religion or politics and everything to do with temperature gradients and jet stream wind shear.

I flinch at stories of people killed when tornadoes are tearing off the church roof or hurricanes are flooding their houses — even as they pray for Jesus to rebuke once more the wind and the waves.

Last Sept. 18, when Hurricane Fifi came bellowing up the channel between the Bay Islands and the mainland with winds of 120 to 140 mph, the Roatànians simply rode out the storm as their ancestors have been doing since the days of Morgan.

CNN's @LeylaSantiago blown around in San Juan, Puerto Rico as Hurricane Maria makes landfall, packing 155 mph winds... https://t.co/m5nZu272cb

At least 16 people have died in Puerto Rico, where Hurricane Maria made landfall as a category 4 hurricane with 155 mHurricane Maria made landfall as a category 4 hurricane with 155 mhurricane with 155 mph winds.

As of 11 p.m., CBS2's Lonnie Quinn reported Hurricane Maria was 65 miles east - southeast of Grand Turk Island as a strong Category 3 storm, with sustained wind speeds of 125 mpAs of 11 p.m., CBS2's Lonnie Quinn reported Hurricane Maria was 65 miles east - southeast of Grand Turk Island as a strong Category 3 storm, with sustained wind speeds of 125 mpas a strong Category 3 storm, with sustained wind speeds of 125 mph.

But much of what's been written - and I plead as guilty as anyone - is spitting in the wind: namely, the hurricane of the Eurozone crisis.

High winds, dangerous rip currents and potential coastal flooding could turn parts of Long Island into a soggy and treacherous mess as the area braces for a glancing but powerful blow from Hurricane Jose — one of two strong tropical storms on the National Hurricane Center's watch list.

Hurricane Maria caused catastrophic damage to Puerto Rico when it hit as a Category 4 storm Sept. 20 with winds of up to 154 mph.

As Hurricane Sandy continues to threaten much of New York State with high winds, heavy rains, flooding, coastal surges and

Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in Florida as Hurricane Irma's winds and rain lash the state.

Hurricane Irma's large eye is beginning to move slowly away from the Florida Keys as it continues north with 130 mph (215 kph) winds.

The National Hurricane Center says Category 4 Hurricane Irma is now «headed for the southwest Florida coast» as winds continue to pick up speed in all of South Florida.

The National Weather Service says that a crane has collapsed in Miami as strong wind from Hurricane Irma blows in.

Deputies shot and wounded a burglar and arrested his accomplice at a Florida home as Hurricane Irma blew in.