Sentences with phrase «coast storm intensity»

Not exact matches

If a storm of similar intensity had veered east (Unlike Katrina for example) and moved east along our Gulf coast, pushing a storm surge ahead of it and into the corner of the Apalachee Bay as this one did into the Gulf of Martaban, we would also see extraordinary devastation — even though our coast is not quite as low, and even though the Burma coast forms a funnel (like the Bay of Fundy) unlike Apalachee Bay.

The intense rainfall was due to a complicated interplay between the intensity of the hurricane, its path, and the fact that it stalled over the coast with part of it still over the water so the storm dynamics could access the heat and moisture of the Gulf.

This warmth and moisture also combines with increased surface ocean temperatures along the coast each playing a role in the intensity of this kind of storm.

-- «Other trends in severe storms, including the intensity & frequency of tornadoes, hail, and damaging thunderstorm winds, are uncertain» — «lack of any clear trend in landfall frequency along the U.S. eastern and Gulf coasts» — «when averaging over the entire contiguous U.S., there is no overall trend in flood magnitudes»

This is mainly because the area of maximum cyclone intensity has moved nearer the East Asian coastline, the researchers believe, boosting cyclone intensity at landfall — when the centre of the storm hits the coast — over easten China, Korea and Japan.

(Extremely warm sea surface temperatures both in the Gulf of Mexico and off the U.S. East Coast are helping to fuel the present storm's record intensity.