Sentences with phrase «first hurricane forms»

According to Brian McNoldy of the Capital Weather Gang, the median date for when the first hurricane forms is Aug. 16.

Not exact matches

According to the National Hurricane Center, Alex is the first hurricane to form in the month of January siHurricane Center, Alex is the first hurricane to form in the month of January sihurricane to form in the month of January since 1938.

Alex is also the first North Atlantic hurricane thriving in January since Alice of 1955, which formed on Dec. 30, 1954.

The first is that hurricanes in the northern hemisphere form at tropical and subtropical latitudes and then tend to move toward the west - northwest.

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout, marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a minor Category 1 hurricane.

Matthew, which was for a time the first Category 5 hurricane to form in the Atlantic since Hurricane Felix in 2007, had weakened to a Category 1 storm by the time it made landfall in South Carolina lasthurricane to form in the Atlantic since Hurricane Felix in 2007, had weakened to a Category 1 storm by the time it made landfall in South Carolina lastHurricane Felix in 2007, had weakened to a Category 1 storm by the time it made landfall in South Carolina last October.

MIAMI (Reuters)- The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout, marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a minor Category 1 hurricane.

According to fossil evidence, small primates — a group of mammals that includes humans and our closest monkey relatives — first arrived in Jamaica during the Miocene (23 million to 25 million years ago), probably on mats of vegetation that can form during major weather events, like hurricanes, that could have carried them from the American mainland.

On average, August has two hurricanes, and the first major hurricane has generally formed by September 4th.

One of the few Atlantic hurricanes that formed this year, Fred, did so further east than any other on record and provided the Cape Verde islands off Africa with their very first hurricane warming.

We know that Will fears hurricanes, because two separate characters say exactly that twice — in case we missed it the first time or, for that matter, the prologue, in which he sees a giant skull form within the storm clouds.

Within a loft - like trussed gallery adjacent to the space containing the first American exhibition of Ross's new large - scale Hurricane prints, computer - generated renderings of complex fluid dynamics are projected onto large screens, which combine to form what the artist calls a Wave Cathedral.

Brian McNoldy, who studies tropical storms at the University of Miami and now is part of the excellent Washington Post Capital Weather Gang blog, has reported that Hurricane Humberto has finally formed, coming within hours of matching the record set in 2002 for the latest date of first hurricane genesis in the Hurricane Humberto has finally formed, coming within hours of matching the record set in 2002 for the latest date of first hurricane genesis in the hurricane genesis in the Atlantic.

As I summarize in the book: «global warming, which ought to intensify the average hurricane, could also change the regions of storm formation or the numbers of storms that form in the first place.

This lack of numbers brings me back to an old example, which first arose from a statement (by Judith Curry, IIRC, about 3 years ago) that hurricanes form over hot ocean areas, but not necessarily the hottest ocean areas around.

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These multi-decadal fluctuations in hurricane activity result nearly entirely from differences in the number of hurricanes and major hurricanes forming from tropical storms first named in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea.