Sentences with phrase «hurricane wind scale»

They are referring to the Saffir - Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which classifies hurricanes on a scale of 1 - 5.

Matthew is a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir - Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

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The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a hurricane severity scale that factors in wind speed, hurricane size, and forward speed (whether it stalls or not) to rate the potential destructiveness of a storm 1 - to - 10 scale.

Weevils have attacked the plants in the past, damaging the local crop, but the biggest threats to supply are the lack of large - scale producers (most locals just grow a few plants for their own use) and hurricanes, which dump heavy rains and pack a punch with fierce winds that destroy the fragile plants.

And then two to four of those hurricanes would be expected to reach major hurricane status, defined as Category 3 or above on the Saffir - Simpson scale of hurricane strength, or winds above 111 mph.

Meanwhile, the hurricane grew from Category 3 to Category 4 on the Saffir - Simpson scale, with winds clocked at around 125 mph.

Under hurricane force wind, the air - water interface was producing projectiles fragmenting into sub millimeter scale water droplets.

Despite consistently warm waters, tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea typically don't reach the higher end of the hurricane scale because winds in the upper atmosphere tend to cut them off.

My speculation — wind shear defusing hurricanes but pumping up tornados — didn't seem apt, the size / scale is so different between the two kinds of storms that wind shear means something different for each type.

I would also like to see a scale that would include size and wind speed parameters, for ranking total power of hurricane for the U.S.

We are looking at Hurricane Felicia (2009) and have used the NCEP - NCAR reanalysis wind fields to look at the large scale environment.

«Changes in extreme wind conditions related to small scale hurricane - type storms can not be skillfully detected in models that have a resolution to [o] coarse to resolve th [ese] storms»

* Changes in extreme wind conditions related to small scale hurricane - type storms can not be skillfully detected in models that have a resolution to coarse to resolve this storms.

The colour field underneath the wind arrows shows the precipitation rate on a scale from 0 to 20 mm per hour, noting that peaks in rainfall intensity (which may have been far higher than 20 mm / hr at times in localised regions within the Hurricane circulation), are not resolved in this animation.

Pam is a strong Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir - Simpson Wind Scale and is strengthening.

The Southern Pacific Ocean's Tropical Cyclone Pam was a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir - Simpson Wind Scale when NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead.

In addition, the spatial resolution of ASCAT is half that of QuikSCAT, which limits ASCAT's usefulness in coastal applications to those that are about 50 km or farther from land, and in the resolution of small - scale features in the wind field such as hurricane structure, fronts, and jets.

Once a hurricane develops, it is classified with the Saffir - Simpson scale by measuring its sustained wind speed and barometric pressure.