Sentences with phrase «forecast track»
The phrase "forecast track" refers to the predicted path or route that something, like a storm or hurricane, is expected to follow in the future. Full definition
This has led to an enormous improvement in forecasting the track of typhoons.
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Here's the scene in the Miami forecasting center, which illustrates why the midpoint of hurricane forecast tracks is relatively meaningless:
Experts urged residents in potentially impacted areas to monitor Irma's predicted paths but to avoid latching onto any specific forecast track.
Map of Hurricane Maria's forecast track as of Tuesday morning / / Map by the National Hurricane Center
«A hurricane of this magnitude will have impacts extending far from its center, so it's important for residents not to focus on the exact forecast track but to consider the system as a whole,» he said.
Animation showing Hurricane Irene's actual track using satellite imagery and NHC's forecast track issued at 11 p.m. ET on August 23.
«Being able to track and forecast the tracks of these huge blocks of ice will be a major benefit to the shipping industry, particularly as more ships begin to use polar waters, as Arctic sea ice melts.
Here's the scene in the Miami forecasting center, which illustrates why the midpoint of hurricane forecast tracks is relatively meaningless: Read more...
The data isn't yet in for 2017, but it's looking like the forecast tracks were pretty accurate.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami has generated a forecast track for Hurricane Joaquin that closely follows the path Superstorm Sandy took, raising a New York City strike higher on the list of possibilities.
On the forecast track, the center of Alex will move near or over portions of the Azores Friday morning, Jan. 15.
The forecast track of Usagi issued by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center on Friday.
Tropical storm Isaac is likely to miss Tampa anyway, storm is consistently moving west of the forecast track of NOAA $ $ Aug 24, 2012
The forecast track of Hurricane Irma as of Thursday afternoon / / Map by the National Hurricane Center
on the forecast track, the center of Lidia will be near the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula during the next several hours, and will move over the peninsula through Friday night.
But the forecast tracks showed Harvey's center dawdling after landfall, and many computer models predicted enormous rainfall totals for large areas on and near the coast — including Houston — as they envisioned the storm lingering into the middle of this week.
Arthur has still not deviated much from the forecast track or intensity.
To forecast the track that a tropical storm or hurricane will take, forecasters need to know how the large - scale weather pattern will evolve over a particular period of time.
There is always some uncertainty over the forecast track of any hurricane.
As indicated, the forecast track was remarkably close to the observed track.