Sentences with phrase «cyclone season»
"Cyclone season" refers to a time of the year when cyclones are more likely to occur. These are intense tropical storms with strong winds and heavy rain that can cause significant damage. Full definition
The exceptionally warm waters in the western North Pacific contributed to a very active tropical cyclone season in the region, especially in October and November.
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These events included historic droughts in East Africa, the southern United States and northern Mexico; an above - average tropical cyclone season in the North Atlantic hurricane basin and a below - average season in the eastern North Pacific; and the wettest two - year period (2010 — 2011) on record in Australia.
It is the strongest storm of the 2005 - 06 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season thus far, and one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere.
If in Brunei try to surf during cyclone season because even when the spot is working well, it is likely to be very quiet.
In the northern cyclone season these areas can get quite big.
Adam Lea @ 293, I was careful only to set out the coincidence of AGW arriving with a period containing more - than - average stormy Atlantic cyclone seasons.
Things may fluctuate over a single cyclone season, or even over a timescale of years.
In the La Niña case, the convective cell over the western Pacific strengthens inordinately, resulting in colder than normal winters in North America and a more robust cyclone season in South - East Asia and Eastern Australia.
The southern hemisphere tropical cyclone season normally runs from November to April and so far this season activity in the South Pacific Ocean has been relatively low.
(12/16/2009) In the midst of cyclone season, a «dead» period for tourism to Madagascar's east coast, Vohémar, a sleepy town dominated by the vanilla trade, is abuzz.
It has been an unusually quiet tropical cyclone season in the Southern Hemisphere this year, as we discussed in detail in a February 28 post.
To date we have had a very tranquil tropical cyclone season in both the Atlantic and Pacific.
The Pilbara iron ore operations swiftly recovered from the cyclone season, and are now running at full capacity of 237 million tonnes per year.
Cyclone Christine, the second to batter Western Australia state in the November 1 - April 30 cyclone season, forced mining companies Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Fortescue Metals to suspend shipping until emergency authorities sound the all - clear, expected over the next day or two as the storm continues to weaken.
The Atlantic Ocean usually gets a lot of press this time of year thanks to its annual tropical cyclone season (17 depressions and seven hurricanes so far this year), which runs through November 30.
Had Hurricane Sandy arrived at the beginning of the cyclone season instead of the end it could have decimated both knot and crab populations, Wheeler says.
«They are purely there to satisfy the public's curiosity based on our best knowledge of how large - scale climate features impact tropical cyclone seasons.»
The Central Pacific also saw an above - average tropical cyclone season, with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes, and five major hurricanes, the most active season since reliable record - keeping began in 1971.
We see the level of sea rise... the cyclone seasons, the warm, the rain, all this is affected.
The cyclone season runs from December to April when the weather in the region is hot and wet.
The data are based on a 36 year period from the 1969/70 to 2005/06 tropical cyclone season.
Figure 1: (A) Average surge index over the cyclone season.
«We foresee another very active Atlantic basin tropical cyclone season in 2006,» states a report from a team including long - time forecasting guru William Gray of Colorado State University.