Sentences with phrase «earlier than storm»

Not exact matches

«Sandy event is much more severe... and has impacted NYC to a much worse degree than Irene,» RMS said in a storm report early Tuesday.
It was even stronger than Hurricane Irma that storm roared into the Florida Keys earlier this month.
The storms just started moving up from the south at this northern New Jersey course earlier than expected.
Team Deutsch stormed out to an early 11 - 0 lead but than Team Watts woke up.
Six weeks after a ferocious hail storm shattered more than half of the glass ceilings that cover the century - old West Side conservatory, the cleanup and rebuilding process is still in the early stages.
Turnout in the poll was a slightly higher than expected at 51.35 %, despite the region being battered by Storm Doris earlier in the day.
It is true that Atiku's ambition and the traction it seems to be gaining may truly have brought the storm home much earlier than expected, but the Atiku challenge is merely a token of the series of turbulence that the APC invited on itself and should prepare for.
Lord Mandelson has admitted meeting a Russian billionaire at the centre of a two - pronged political storm two years earlier than previously stated.
Peak tornado activity in the central and southern Great Plains of the United States is occurring up to two weeks earlier than it did half a century ago, according to a new Montana State University study whose findings could help states in «Tornado Alley» better prepare for these violent storms.
More than 50 shipwrecks — such as an early 19th - century side - wheeler that broke up on a reef and a freighter that sank in a 1907 storm — lie perfectly preserved in the cold freshwater.
Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall was three times more likely than a storm from the early 1900s and 15 percent more intense as a result of climate change, a new study in Environmental Research Letters found.
An ethical storm hit the University of California, Berkeley, earlier this year after it invited more than 5,000 incoming students to receive a personal genetic analysis of three genes associated with how they metabolize lactose, alcohol and folic acid.
After the snow storm earlier this week, which ended up only totaling about 7 inches rather than the two feet predicted (thank goodness!)
As promised earlier this year, the French automaker stormed the German track and lapped the Nordschleife in less than eight minutes with a brand - new iteration of the Renault Megane RS.
This higher percentage is due to the fact that four out of the last five storms we examined occurred in 2004 or later, when we were in a lower interest rate environment than in the»90s or early»80s.
A more glamorous town than other more low - key hamlets, like Nature's Valley and Storms River, Plettenberg Bay serves as a seaside playground for the more affluent, and as a post-matric party destination (you'll want to avoid town during the annual Plett Rage Student Festival in early December).
Results showed the storm caused the sea ice to pass the previous record 10 days earlier in August than it would have otherwise, but only reduced the final September ice extent by 150,000 square kilometers (almost 60,000 square miles), less than a 5 percent difference.
However, since that paper was submitted in early 2004 and was «In Press», more than a year ago, recent papers by Emanuel et al., 2005, Nature 436:686 - 688; Webster et al. 2005 Science 309:1844 - 1846, and Hoyos et al. 2006 (Released in March 2006 ScienceExpress) have emerged reporting trends of increases in storm intensity.
I also think that proof coming from Arctic sea ice, glacier retreats, etc. might be indications, but are just one step away from the cherry blossoms blooming early, the 26 + storms we had in 2005, Ted Turner's statement, «it's hotter than hell outside», etc. «proofs» that are thrown out by some.
«Since aircraft reconnaissance into storms was routine in the Northwest Pacific during the earlier period of our record 1983 - 1987, the best track intensities during this period are likely to be more accurate than the later period 1988 - 2004 after the termination of reconnaissance.
24 Feb: Courier - Mail: Climate researcher questions Cyclone Marcia's category 5 status Jennifer Morohasy said the bureau had used computer modelling rather than early readings from weather stations to determine that Marcia was a category 5 cyclone, not a category 3... Systems Engineering Australia principal Bruce Harper, a modelling and risk assessment consultant who analyses cyclones, said it was often difficult to determine whether a storm was a marginal 3, 4 or 5.
For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.
Scientists say the record was all the more striking as 2007 had near perfect climate patterns for melting ice, but that the weather this year was unremarkable other than a storm in early August.
The deposits revealed that these early storms were more frequent, and in some cases were likely more intense, than the most severe hurricanes Cape Cod has seen in historical times, including Hurricane Bob in 1991 and a 1635 hurricane that generated a 20 - foot storm surge, according to Donnelly.
And even earlier, in 1909 before hurricanes were named, a storm dropped more than 96 inches of rain on Jamaica.
Contradicting Stabenow's claims, however, NOAA's Storm Prediction Center reported that the number of F3 or stronger tornadoes has been declining since the early 1970s and 2013 had 142 fewer tornadoes reported than any year on record.
«The spring months have sometimes storms of wind and thunder even so early as March within these last years the Climate seems to be greatly changed the summer so backward with very little rain and even snow in winter much less than usual and the ground parched that all summer have entirely dried up...»
Early results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the giant planet as a complex world with Earth - sized polar cyclones, deep - diving storm systems, and a lumpy magnetic field generated deeper than once thought.
December 24th UPDATE, winter storm «Dylan» has already run it's course, dying out earlier than initially predicted.
A report earlier this year by CoreLogic, a financial analysis and advisory company, identified more than 6.5 million homes in the US at risk of storm surge damage, with a total reconstruction value amounting to $ 1.5 trillion.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, suggested earlier this month that more than nature and coincidence might be driving the storms.
2) your reporting only of storms whose intensity should be higher (e.g. cat 4 and not 3), while not mentioning storms that went the other way (e.g. cat 4 to cat 3), particularly in view of Bruce Harper's earlier analysis, lends your analysis subject to the suspicion that you have started with a conclusion and then analyzed and reported the data solely to support the conclusion, rather than presented an unbiased analysis.
All else being equal (environmental conditions associated with the higher than critical SST were the same in the latter period as in the earlier period), we would have expected 22.5 % of the 124 storms between 1995 - 2005 (or 28 storms) to have become major hurricanes.
Disney, for example, is bringing the Dream and the Fantasy back to Port Canaveral on Thursday, two days earlier than planned, because of the storm.
As long as you can protect against most frost, it's better for wine quality to get ready to Harvest a few weeks early than to be «rained out» by storms in October and November.
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