Sentences with phrase «forecasts hurricane paths»

Others, such as a new microsatellite system aiming to improve measurements of hurricane intensity and a highly anticipated new computer simulation that forecasts hurricane paths and intensities, are still in the calibration phase.

Not exact matches

If you're currently pregnant and nearing your due date, you may be understandably concerned about the upcoming forecast for Hurricane Irma's path towards North Carolina.

The so - called «Spaghetti model» from the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts shows a northerly path moving up East Coast for Hurricane Irma.

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.

The 2017 hurricane season has highlighted the critical need to communicate a storm's impact path and intensity accurately, but new research from the University of Utah shows significant misunderstandings of the two most commonly used storm forecast visualization methods.

This type of risk assessment is inaccurate because forecast scientists choose how many lines they want to show — meaning that ensemble forecasts rarely show all the possible paths the hurricane could take.

But in the big picture, hurricane models adeptly forecasted Irma's ultimate path to the Florida Keys nearly a week before it arrived there, says Brian Tang, an atmospheric scientist at the University at Albany in New York.

Powerful hurricanes such as Harvey, Irma and Maria are also providing a testing ground for new tools that scientists hope will save lives by improving forecasts in various ways, from narrowing a storm's future path to capturing swift changes in the intensity of storm winds.

Irene's forecast path gets more uncertain later on, so the hurricane may move out to sea or move further inland.

And scientists may be better able to forecast a storm's effects by comparing its projected path and strength with those of hurricanes that previously struck the coast.

Anyone planning a trip to the Bahamas should keep an eye on forecasts for Hurricane José, as its path could potentially veer toward the Caribbean archipelago.

If you're currently pregnant and nearing your due date, you may be understandably concerned about the upcoming forecast for Hurricane Irma's path towards North Carolina.

Hurricane forecast models (the same ones that were used to predict Katrina's path) indicate a tendency for more intense (but not overall more frequent) hurricanes when they are run for climate change scenarios (Fig. 1).

Meanwhile, high - resolution hurricane models can forecast the growth and path of tropical storms, but would require much greater computer power or eons of time to simulate the large samples of storms required for climate - change studies.

We have a decent grasp of forecasting tropical storm and hurricane paths a few days in advance.