Sentences with phrase «cyclone landfall»

Why was there a 12 year major cyclone landfall drought in the US to begin with?

It's about the risk to the city of Mumbai from a tropical cyclone landfall and storm surge.

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,...).

The earlier years of that time period had a high number of tropical cyclone landfall events, while the latter years experienced relatively few.

This graph shows the frequency of tropical cyclone landfalls:

The figure below shows global tropical cyclone landfalls from 1990 through 2016.

Not exact matches

In areas further north where the cyclone made landfall, water and power were still being restored.

Shortly after the strongest tropical cyclone to ever make landfall struck the central Philippines we mounted our largest international relief operation in years.

This is why we have been moving toward predicting U.S. landfalling tropical cyclone activity and the associated rainfall,» he says.

Previous research from Duke environmental engineer Ana Barros demonstrated that the regular landfall of tropical cyclones is vital to the region's water supply and can help mitigate droughts.

Even if the number of tropical cyclones that form in the Atlantic increases, that doesn't guarantee that the number making landfall will also rise.

But no matter what the future brings, one thing is clear — the regularity and number of tropical cyclones making landfall will continue to be vital.

The Weather Forecast Office in Newport / Morehead City, N.C., was the first to scan a tropical cyclone using such radar when Hurricane Irene made landfall in North Carolina in 2011.

As the massive cyclone made landfall, destructive winds tore down trees, moved cars and forced thousands of people to flee homes and beachfront resorts

Apart from Tropical Storm Andrea, which soaked Florida after moving ashore in the Panhandle in June, none of this year's cyclones has made a U.S. landfall.

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.

This makes Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall,» said Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at U.S. - based Weather Underground.

With winds over a punishing 300 kilometers per hour, Typhoon Haiyan, which ravaged the Philippines in early November, was the most powerful recorded cyclone that made landfall.

And the Middle East, not exactly known to be a cyclone hot spot, saw back - to - back storms make landfall.

With the improvements in forecast, 24 - hour track and intensity forecast error of the tropical cyclones reduced from 141 km to 97 km and «landfall error» from 99 km to 56 km during 2006 to 2015.

It is very rare for a tropical cyclone to make landfall from the south in the state, although the remnants have sometimes brought intense rain to the region as the storms break up and move into the southwest U.S.

There have only been a couple of landfalls of tropical cyclones in Baja California in the last 50 years, and both were just tropical storms.

In 2014 Hurricane Odile rewrote the record books, having become the most powerful tropical cyclone to ever make landfall on the Baja California peninsula.

The index, which evaluates extremes in temperature and precipitation, as well as landfalling tropical cyclones, was nearly twice the average value and second only to 1998.

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

Nevertheless, the IPCC AR5 presents an outlook of increasing extreme precipitation in tropical cyclones making landfall (p. 106, Table TS.2), which is relevant for the flooding connected to Harvey.

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

More extreme precipitation near the centers of tropical cyclones making landfall is projected in North and Central America, East Africa, West, East, South and Southeast Asia as well as in Australia and many Pacific islands (medium confidence).»

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

On average, about 20 tropical cyclones enter Philippine waters each year, with eight or nine making landfall.

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

• Harvey lasted 117 hours as a named storm after Texas landfall, shattering the old record for named storm longevity after Texas hurricane landfall set by Fern (1971) at 54 hours • Harvey broke the tropical cyclone - generated United States rainfall record.

This phenomenon in seasonal variation is reflected in the maritime disaster events recorded for coastal regions of southeastern China and landfall locations of tropical cyclones during the Qing Dynasty.

According wunderground.com, of the 13 strongest tropical cyclones at landfall, 6 have happened since 1998.

In addition, statistics on the seasons of tropical cyclone genesis and their landfall locations from AD 1945 — 2013 in the Northwest Pacific Ocean region reveal that in summer, tropical cyclones tend to make landfall along coastal regions north of Fujian Province, eastern China; however, in autumn and winter, cyclones tend to be guided further southward to make landfall in southern China (Hainan), Vietnam, and the Philippines.

As it was getting ready to make landfall in the Philippines on November 7, 2013, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center estimated the system's one - minute sustained winds to 315 km / h (196 mph; 170 kn), making Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded at that time.

The direct economic losses and casualties caused by landfalling tropical cyclones in China during 1983 — 2006 are examined using the dataset released by the Department of Civil Affairs of China... The direct economic losses trended upward significantly over the past 24 yr.

In mid-November, a devastating cyclone made landfall in Somalia's Puntland region - home to 2002 Goldman Prize winner Fatima Jibrell.

One of the most destructive hurricanes in the last 100 years was the Bhola cyclone (category 3) that made landfall on the Bangladesh coastline on November 12 of 1970.

The landfall of a tropical cyclone that strong is expected to have serious repercussions.

In another instance of precise wording, 2012's Hurricane Sandy technically ceased to be a «hurricane» a few hours before it made landfall, turning into a «post-tropical cyclone.»

technically ceased to be a «hurricane» a few hours before it made landfall, turning into a «post-tropical cyclone.»

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.

Scientists at Lamont are developing a tropical cyclone risk model that can be used in urban planning, which incorporates climate factors in determining the probability of a tropical cyclone making landfall at a given location.

Using a modern tropical cyclone model (simulating the famous hurricane Andrew of 1992, which was forecast to make landfall around Miami) they find cyclone modification is indeed theoretically capable of reducing hurricane development and storm damage.

While there has been a recent increase in the number of landfalling US hurricanes, the increase in tropical cyclone - associated heavy events is much higher than would be expected from the pre-1994 association between the two, indicating that the upward trend in heavy precipitation events is due to an increase in the number of heavy precipitation events per system.

Still, in any case, in terms of landfalling tropical cyclones, there does not seem to be any long - term trend in the available data.

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.

In SON of El Niño years from 1961 to 2000, significantly fewer tropical cyclones made landfall in the western North Pacific compared with neutral years, although in Japan and the Korean Peninsula no statistically significant change was detected.

By request: time series of global landfalling tropical cyclones since 1970, based on work with @RyanMaue & J. Weinkle in Journal of Climate pic.twitter.com / tYKfCdDKvU