Sentences with phrase «at landfall»

Table of 25 U.S. landfalling hurricanes with lowest pressures at landfall on record (since 1851).

And I predict confidently that we will survive Sandy, which should not be a tropical cyclone at landfall.

This, says Crompton, should not be surprising as there has been no observed increase in hurricane frequency and intensity at landfall over the period for which normalization data is available.

They should have told the truth that it would become a tropical storm at landfall or soon after... Tropical storms are tree killers.

January 26, 2014 • Typhoon Haiyan was one of the strongest storms ever recorded at landfall when it struck the Philippines late last year.

If it did maintain Category 5 status at landfall, it would be in rare company: such a ferocious storm has only struck the U.S. three times in recorded history.

The cruise's accent is on nature, so there isn't much in the way of habitation at landfall.

Existing forecasting models are good at plotting a storm's path, but they fall down in trying to predict its magnitude at landfall.

He noted that tropical cyclones — what Americans call hurricanes — also kill corals at landfall, but typically over an area of about 50 miles.

Jeff masters said on his website that the JMA (Japanese Meteorological Association, estimated the wind speeds of Hayian at landfall at 145mph.

[Harvey] has the dual threat of both being very intense at landfall and producing widespread flooding at the same time.»

Figure 6 shows a WWLLN - TC lightning and intensity time series and an overlay of microwave and lightning data for Harvey at landfall on 26 August.

Focusing on the past six decades, we observe no sustained upward trends in wind speed distributions (Figs. 1 and 3), the mean wind speed at landfall or the annual frequency of occurrence of landfalling segments (Fig. 8).

THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued a media release last night (19thFebruary) with the headline «Tropical Cyclone Marcia to reach Category 5 system at landfall».

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.

With warm waters, moderate wind shear of 15 - 20 knots, and plenty of moisture available, intensification into a Category 3 storm appears likely on Monday afternoon and evening, before interaction with land knocks the intensity of the storm back to Category 2 at landfall on Tuesday.

It had estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (215 km / h) at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir - Simpson Hurricane Scale.

At landfall of the ferry landing, the main avenue runs throughout the island.

which documents, at least to my knowledge, the first instance of this global blinding, the inability to forecast at what might be the most important moment, at landfall, the onslaught a hurricane poses for a coast, due to global climate change and the radiative forcing to which I refer.

Although the U.S. has seen its fair share of damaging storms in recent years, including Hurricane Sandy in 2013 (which technically was not a hurricane at landfall), the last major hurricane to strike the U.S. was Hurricane Wilma in 2005.