Sentences with phrase «cyclone hit»

The cyclone hit Fiji and killed at least 19 people.

He also said that Scott Reef had not recovered much from the bleaching before the cyclone hit, which was also correct.

After the cyclone hit, most aid worker visas were delayed; safe passageway to affected areas was compromised; and the media was largely barred from freely reporting on the disaster.

This is a poverty stricken country that was indefensible against a direct cyclone hit.

While a house that looks like a cyclone hit is a clear sign of chaos, there are many ways to see imbalance.

ISU's Quenton Bundrage had a 97 - yard catch against Texas in 2013, and the Cyclones hit a few relative biggies last year, too.

Not exact matches

The Pilbara Ports Authority has begun clearing large vessels out of the ports of Dampier and Ashburton, ahead of a cyclone which is expected to hit the Pilbara coast by tomorrow morning.

After a long winter full of bomb cyclones and last - minute flurries, you aren't willing to wait until the mercury hits the teens to get to your home away from home.

The news hit the West Feliciana community like a cyclone.

Churches and Christian charities are praying and sending help to Texas as the fiercest cyclone to hit... More

I say hit them like a cyclone from start, let them know if they open their Ass while looking for goal that we gon screw the Ass without pity.

Although Irene proved to be the eighth most costly cyclone to hit the United States since 1900, «nothing happened on the beach,» he said.

Preliminary U.S. damage estimates are near $ 50 billion, making Sandy the second - costliest cyclone to hit the United States since 1900.

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

Now Hurricane Matthew, the first major cyclone to hit the U.S. mainland in 11 years — is giving him still more quality time with a monster.

The world's strongest recorded typhoon, cyclone or hurricane to make landfall was Hurricane Camille in 1969, which hit the southern U.S. state of Mississippi with 305 kph (190 mph) winds, said Weather Underground's Masters.

Tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, however, have devastating consequences when they hit land due to a combination of factors such as a low - lying and flat coastal terrain, a shallow ocean floor, and a high population density of surrounding countries.

The premise is that a cyclone has hit Los Angeles, somehow flooding it and filling it with sharks, which begin eating the rather alarmed inhabitants (including Tara Reid from American Pie and Ian Ziering from Beverly Hills 90210).

Floods, cyclones and bushfires hit time and time again.

Enter a wood chopping contest and avoid being hit by the cyclone!

But at the time of Brexit, the markets thought the World was going to end and the planet earth was going to get hit by cyclone followed by earthquake, tsunami and drought.

Despite the fact that most tropical cyclones do not hit the Hawaiian Islands, FEMA has designated the entire state as a «Wind - Borne Debris Region,» meaning that the risk of wind damage is significant.

We also have seen travel in the New York City area brought to a complete halt thanks to a «bomb cyclone» that hit with gale force winds, snow and several days of single - digit temperatures.

A big nor» easter is set to become the strongest storm to hit the Midwest and northeastern United States since January's «bomb cyclone.»

This summer New Zealand has been hit by remnants of troplical cyclone feyi, which hit the south island powerfully, and its unusual for these cyclones to hit so far south.

Arctic winter formation has been largely hit by advection from cyclones easily punching through what was once a mighty fortress of cold air living in a physical symbiosis with much thicker sea ice.

I was in Bangladesh along the riverine Burmese border this spring before cyclone Nargis hit Rangoon.

This is the country that was hit by the cyclone.

The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China — and we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.»

As you say, if the cyclone had made landfall a little further north it would have hit the coastal mountain range.

«And as we're talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated.

With this storm and the long gap since the last coastal hit in mind, I sent a query to half a dozen experts on tropical cyclones and their impacts, asking them to assess the gap in land - falling hurricanes and the conditions, including simple chance, that favor ravaged or spared coasts.

I wonder could it be the influence of an increasing number of cyclones (caused by global warming???) hitting the north west coast and moving inland in a south easterly direction, providing brief but heavy rain to an otherwise dry area?

Late Friday night, Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas, the first Category 4 cyclone to hit the United States in nearly 12 years.

The floods were quickly followed by one of the most intense cyclone ever to hit Queensland.

Forest disturbance in Madagascar and Vietnam increased significantly in the aftermath of cyclones that hit the countries last year, according to a forest tracking tool developed by a team of...

Volatility in spot coking coal prices has been much sharper, with prices almost doubling in three weeks to USD 290 / t (FOB Australia) in April 2017 in the aftermath of cyclone Debbie hitting Queensland.

But as parts of Queensland hit the road to recovery, it is worth thinking about what makes a community resilient to extreme events like floods and cyclones.

WWLLN - TC was on the job: The network provided real - time monitoring of Hurricane Harvey as it made landfall in southern Texas as a category 4 storm, the strongest tropical cyclone to hit the United States in 12 years.

Vitu Chinoko, Southern Africa Advocacy and Partnerships Coordinator, CARE International, said: «SouthernAfrica is still recovering from the worst drought in 35 years, while vulnerable countries, like Mozambique and Madagascar, have been hit by cyclones.

«The biggest question, though, remains the extent to which climate change is the driver of hurricanes, cyclones and flooding that have hit the world with apparently increased ferocity and regularity in recent years.

Based on detailed reports of TCs that were generated in the Southern Ocean and hit Australia since 1970, from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Seo constructed damage estimates «using the reported financial loss, destruction of houses and capital goods, and losses of agricultural crops and livestock after a careful examination of the detailed individual cyclone reports,» which also included «local area income and population density where the storm hit.»

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.

These countries are closer to cyclone generation sites in the western North Pacific; the shift in genesis location to the northern part of the South China Sea means that cyclones have a shorter lifetime, and less time to intensify, before hitting land in south - east Asia.

A few months ago, the Department of Energy (DOE) made a request to one of its national labs, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), to study the impacts on the electricity grid of a severe cold snap called the bomb cyclone that hit the Northeast in early January 2018.

In a section on how the frequency of hurricanes and cyclones is likely to change, the report cites what's been called a «hurricane drought» — a remarkable gap, «unprecedented in the historical records dating back to the mid-19th century» — in the U.S. being hit by storms category 3 or higher.

This state has only recently been hit by a series of floods and cyclones starting in December, 2010, which left several towns and cities flooded.

«In recent years, East Asian people have been more likely to suffer from stronger tropical cyclones than before, for example Rusa (hit Korea in 2002), Maemi (hit Korea in 2003), Nabi (hit Japan in 2005), Saomai (hit China in 2006), and Haiyan (hit the Philippines last year),» said Ho.

After all, Japan is a country that regularly gets hit by typhoons, and so the subject of tropical cyclones and their genesis and future trends ought to be of great public and civic interest.

During this time of the year, there is a higher chance the islands will be hit by tropical cyclones.