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A fresh round of government and private hurricane forecasts show Tropical Storm Gustav, which is now heading west between Jamaica and Cuba, growing into a dangerous hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend and hitting the Gulf Coast around Labor Day.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
In a column for The Washington Post earlier this month, Ron Klain, who served as chief of staff for the vice presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden, said August could be extremely dangerous for Trump and the administration, highlighting the threat of a major hurricane as a top reason.
Hal Needham, a hurricane scientist at Louisiana State University, wrote in a blog post on the weather site WXshift that a storm's category doesn't fully convey how dangerous rainfall could be and how much damage it could cause.
Hurricane Jose, moving west - northwest and last located about 415 miles off the Northern Leeward Islands, was updated to an «extremely dangerous» Category 4 storm and is expected in the northeastern Caribbean on Saturday.
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.
Some areas in Puerto Rico are expected to see 20 inches of rain and 6 to 9 feet of dangerous storm surge (often the most deadly component of a hurricane).
Dangerous, but in a region with a long history of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes, hardly something residents hadn't seen before.
In fact, it can be the most dangerous part of any hurricane, and it is only partly determined by wind speed (the aspect of a storm on which the hurricane categories are based).
«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.
Hurricane Harvey became the nation's first Category 4 landfall in almost 12 years, hammering the Texas Gulf Coast with an extremely dangerous combination of torrential rainfall, storm - surge flooding and destructive winds.
Irma is likely to be a large and very dangerous Category 3 or 4 hurricane with 120 — 150 mph winds when it makes landfall in the Florida Keys on Sunday morning.
After past disasters such as hurricanes, fires or floods, children have died in dangerous cribs, often donated to the families with the best intentions.
Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas last Friday, dangerous flooding has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes, leaving «unprecedented» rainfall and winds to wreak havoc.
Hurricane Maria whipped through Puerto Rico, leaving a path of destruction and dangerous floodwaters in its wake.
«Smaller» hurricanes can still be terribly dangerous and damaging, too; Hurricane Harvey, which just drowned Texas and Louisiana, does not make the record books in any category — except for rainfall.
Over the last 24 hours, these factors have combined perfectly to build a truly frightening hurricane that the Mexican National Weather Service is calling «the most dangerous storm in history.»
So whether you've ever experienced a hurricane, keep in mind that weather can be dangerous both on land and at sea.
Since Tropical Depressions can suddenly develop and may quickly morph into dangerous hurricanes and tornedos, it imperative for families to have a disaster plan in place.
If a hurricane is active nearby conditions worsen and can be dangerous, so be sure to check the weather forecast before you book a last - minute holiday to the Riviera Maya in the wet season.
Original post, Oct. 3 Hurricane Matthew, which briefly reached Category 5 strength last Friday and remained a potent Category 4 storm today, is poised to pummel Haiti overnight with ferocious winds and dangerous downpours — up to 40 inches in spots — before roaring north over Cuba and the Bahamas.
The confluence of rivers and sea is a dangerous zone in a hurricane.
Last week, the White House released a report that found that climate change is already creating changes in the United States by threatening the Southwest with heat waves, the Atlantic Coast with dangerous hurricanes and the middle of the country with flooding.
An important point in the article, I felt, was: «the very real and dangerous increases in recent Atlantic hurricane activity will no doubt continue to provide a heightened sense of purpose to research addressing how hurricane behavior might change in our changing climate...»
The way I handle this (such as a dangerous hurricane) is to say, «We can only expect worse in the future with GW.»
An important point in the article, I felt, was: «the very real and dangerous increases in recent Atlantic hurricane activity will no doubt continue to provide a heightened sense of purpose to research addressing how hurricane behavior might change in our changing climate...» so «give us more money!!!».
Wilma «has become an extremely dangerous Category Five hurricane on the Saffir - Simpson scale,» the center said in an advisory.
Whether Irene is a strong tropical storm or hurricane over New England will make little difference in the expected impacts of damaging winds... a dangerous storm surge... and flooding rains.
«It's very dangerous to explain Rita or Katrina through global warming, because we have always had strong hurricanes in the USA - the strongest one on record dates back to 1935.»
We pay for climate disruption every day in the form of hurricanes, droughts, floods, heat waves, and other dangerous weather events that pose significant health and economic risks.
If our polluting activities have nothing to do with the hurricanes than why France's President Francois Hollande during its recent visit in the Philippines called for more actions in order to stop climate change because he said that Typhoon Hagupit and Typhoon Hayan which devastated the region become that big and dangerous due to our polluting activities which brings the planet on the brink of disaster.
A (2) Modern warming, glacier and sea ice recession, sea level rise, drought and hurricane intensities... are all occurring at unprecedentedly high and rapid rates, and the effects are globally synchronous (not just regional)... and thus dangerous consequences to the global biosphere and human civilizations loom in the near future as a consequence of anthropogenic influences.
EDITION 12.44 A number of important lessons are coming out in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, but the biggest finally may be recognition of the fact that global warming and its resulting climate change are real and dangerous.
Hurricane Matthew: Dangerous storm closes in on Haiti.
NASA Sees Large Dangerous Hurricane Nicole Closing in on Bermuda http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nicole-atlantic-ocean
Three weeks after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, leaving devastation in its wake, the western hemisphere is bracing for the impact of Hurricane Irma, an «extremely dangerous» Category 4 storm whose winds have reached up to 185 mph.