«With Hurricane Harvey
approaching landfall, remember, the USA is the most resilient nation on earth because we plan ahead,» Trump said in a statement that was displayed at the bottom of the video.
Scientists use ocean data to more accurately predict a hurricane's strength as
it approaches landfall
Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as
it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.
Not exact matches
The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing some damage to roofs, flooding and power outages as it
approached the impoverished Haitian side, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes and rain, although it did not make
landfall.
The Mellons furthermore try to book rooms on the port side of the ship, so they get the view of
approaching islands and
landfall as the ship prepares to dock at each new destination.
Fasseas said that animal welfare groups appear to be taking a more pre-emptive
approach to clear shelter space in the Southeast before Irma makes
landfall, but kennel space and resources are tight.
It's normally a very simplistic, frequentist type
approach to an individual type of event, either chosen to be quite specifically regional or chosen to be even rarer than the actual climatic event itself (flooding instead of precipitation, cyclone
landfall rather than cyclones overall, damage or cost,...).
Sandy is strengthening as it
approaches an East Coast
landfall tonight — even as the storm also undergoes a much - discussed «extratropical» transition from a hurricane into a winter cyclone.
It will make its closest
approach (or
landfall) right around the 1 - 3 a.m. July 4 timeframe near Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras, NC as a Category 1 (or possibly Category 2) hurricane.
«Exactly when and where
landfall occurs is strongly controlled by the weather patterns in place as the storms
approach land.