Sentences with phrase «drive powerful storms»
How do these forces drive powerful storms?
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Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind at least 21 deaths and a swath of destruction.
Even if chasers find powerful storms brewing within driving distance, they still need an accurate forecast of the weather's progress to reach the action in time.
Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more powerful and increased its deadly flooding, according to new research released as major storms may be driving more Americans to worry about global warming.
Temperature differences cause instabilities and drive winds, and unstable disturbances grow into powerful storms.
The deep, northward - driving synoptic pattern associated with both powerful high Latitude storms and warm winds is only something we've begun to see during recent years.
Ocean surface cooling, in the North Atlantic as well as the Southern Ocean, increases tropospheric horizontal temperature gradients, eddy kinetic energy and baroclinicity, which drive more powerful storms.
Moreover, the planet has not reached a new climate stability, but global warming is creating more powerful storms and record - breaking, drought - driven wildfires.
The US government spends $ 2.5 billion per year on research that focuses on carbon dioxide, ignores powerful natural forces that have always driven climate change, and generates numerous reports and press releases warning of record high temperatures, melting icecaps, rising seas, stronger storms, more droughts and other «unprecedented» crises.
The previous suggested reason was that climate change was shifting storms and the powerful air currents known as the jet streams — including the one that traverses the United States — toward the poles, which in turn were driving the movement of the clouds.
The second storm, fueled by a powerful, long - duration atmospheric river funneling warm and moist air from southeast of Hawaii, hit central and northern California beginning late on January 7 and pushed major rivers past flood stage levels and drove extreme gusts, leading to power outages as well as rock and mudslides.