Sentences with phrase «form of hurricane»

Florida's dirty little secret is that the state's economy benefits greatly from all of the infusions of cash in the form of hurricane disaster relief.

The 2017 Hurricane Season has brought a wave of devastation to the Caribbean and United States in the form of Hurricane Irma.

While most funding decisions would be left to make, the cap deal does provide some actual funding in the form of hurricane recovery dollars, which aren't subject to the caps.

Also please wipe out the GOP convention with your wrath in the form of a hurricane.

We pay for climate disruption every day in the form of hurricanes, droughts, floods, heat waves, and other dangerous weather events that pose significant health and economic risks.

Because of all the energy that the Oceans will release into the Atmosphere under the form of hurricanes?

Not exact matches

In its way stood Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the recently formed RAF Fighter Command, which could field the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire, some of the best fighter aircraft in the world at the time.

The potential crisis comes in the form of a massive hurricane gaining strength off the southeast coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico.

Irma is the most powerful hurricane ever formed on the Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center, bringing with it a potential economic damage of up to $ 250hurricane ever formed on the Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center, bringing with it a potential economic damage of up to $ 250Hurricane Center, bringing with it a potential economic damage of up to $ 250 billion.

The heat energy of a fully formed hurricane is «equivalent to a 10 - megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes,» as NOAA meteorologist Chris Landsea has explained.

The Cordillera Central mountain range that forms the spine of the island of Puerto Rico acted as a juicer for Hurricane Maria, Huffman explained, rapidly squeezing out 20 to 36 inches of rain from the cyclone.

Adding to the gloom, AccuWeather said this week there is still a risk that more hurricanes will form over the Atlantic during the rest of the 2017 season, which continues through the end of November.

On average, 2.4 Atlantic hurricanes form in September each year, the most of any month.

These hurricanes form from a tropical depression or tropical wave that passes through or near that chain of islands, and then eventually strengthens into a named system (finally becoming a hurricane at some point) in the mid-Atlantic.

1) Barbuda's 1,600 inhabitants were forced to abandon the island after Hurricane Irma hit: It's not an overstatement to say that Hurricane Irma annihilated Barbuda, the Caribbean island with 1,600 inhabitants that forms a country along with Antigua southeast of Puerto Rico.

The experts I spoke to all said there's no simple explanation for the number of hurricanes that can form in a given year.

I learned the best form of disaster communication to disseminate information during a hurricane is currently AM radio.

La Nina, characterized by colder temperatures in the Pacific around the equator, affects weather in the Atlantic hurricane region as well, in the form of less wind in the tropics and therefore more hospitable conditions for hurricanes.

O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it --

The game started with a moment of silence in honor of the victims of the hurricane, and the fans attending brought well wishes in the form of signs they raised from the stands.

Long before it started feeling the fury of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico had already been hit by a decade - long economic disaster that led this year to a form of bankruptcy for the US territory.

Cuomo has formed a commission to investigate the responses of utilities following the hurricane.

Governor Cuomo says he won't allow a natural gas transfer station to be built off of the coast of Long Island, saying there are too many concerns, including damage form future hurricanes, and potential terrorism.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he won't allow a natural gas transfer station to be built off of the coast of Long Island, saying there are too many concerns, including damage form future hurricanes, and potential terrorism.

Katrina formed on August 23 during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and caused devastation along much of the north - central Gulf Coast.

«The primary risk that climate change may pose would be any potential increase in the frequency or intensity of strong thunderstorms, hurricanes or brushfires,» the company said on a climate risk disclosure form that California began requiring insurers to file this year.

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.

Although every day of the year, somewhere on this planet, it is hurricane season, only when a set of unique conditions come together do hurricanes actually form.

Winds gusting at speeds of up to 1,650 km / h blow from West to East in the equatorial atmosphere, thirteen times the strength of the most destructive hurricane force winds that form on Earth «s equator.

This is because terrestrial hurricanes form when an inflow of air along the ocean surface sops up moisture and rises in a halo of updrafts to create towering columns of rain clouds.

Because a hurricane cools surface water, it discourages the formation of later storms in its wake, providing a form of negative feedback that limits the hurricane merging effect.

Gigantic hurricanes, the beauty of symmetry, and a giraffe - dissecting surgeon all formed fodder for great science books in 2005.

Low pressure helps to form hurricanes, as a cycle of warm air rushes upward and cold air sinks.

The upwelling resembles a feature on Earth called a Hadley cell, where warm air at our equator rises and creates trade winds, hurricanes and other forms of weather.

Irma is also one of three hurricanes now formed in the Atlantic Ocean, something that has not happened in seven years.

Indeed, no recorded hurricane had formed within about 400 kilometers of the equator.

They send them out across the Atlantic Ocean to fly above imminent storms forming out around like the Canary Islands, so that they can really start to get a sense of how do hurricanes form and how do they get launched into the trajectories that they follow.

«There likely will be little traces of the hydrocarbons in the water that is condensed to form rain, but it will likely make up less than normal pollution does,» says research meteorologist Frank Marks, director of hurricane research at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Fla. «The amount of water vapor evaporated that might contain hydrocarbons related to the spill will be very, very small.»

But the agency has predicted an above average hurricane season, and that may still hold — most storms form in the second half of the hurricane season, Bell says, which doesn't end until 30 November.

Eyes in the Sky Of course, even the best radars can not see over mountains or out into the oceans, where hurricanes form.

The forecast is currently for 11 to 17 storms to form, of which five to nine are expected to become hurricanes, and two to four major hurricanes

The forecast is currently for 11 to 17 named storms to form, of which five to nine are expected to become hurricanes, and two to four major hurricanes.

That's because a current of cold ocean water moves from north to south along the West Coast, cooling the coastal Pacific and removing the threat of hurricanes, which form only when low pressure systems siphon off the energy from warm ocean water.

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.

While brown tides have also occurred in Great South Bay as recently as 2008 and 2011, the presence of a new ocean inlet in eastern Great South Bay that formed during Hurricane Sandy may be assisting in keeping the blooms away in 2013.

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

Even though the El Niño hasn't technically formed, the warmer state of the Pacific is still having some impacts, including playing a part in quashing the Atlantic hurricane season.

Warm air at our equator rises and creates trade winds, hurricanes and other forms of weather.

«What happens in the early part of the season is generally not a good predictor of the second half of the season, which is when the majority of hurricanes and major hurricanes form.