Sentences with phrase «hours of advance warning»

Even with only a few hours of advance warning, power grids could redistribute currents to reduce their vulnerability to currents traveling through Earth and airplanes flying polar routes could be rerouted to avoid losing radio contact with controllers, for example.

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2010: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration adds 12 hours of lead time for its hurricane storm watches and warnings, now 48 and 36 hours in advance, respectively.

The goal is that by 2021 the rebuilt and thriving city of Joplin would receive a severe tornado warning more than an hour in advance.

Till now their arrival has been hard to predict, but the first images of an earthbound burst captured by two satellites simultaneously have shown that we could get warnings 24 hours in advance that trouble is heading our way.

It's weird, but our brand new Volt gave us warning of the upcoming storm about an hour in advance — so we quickly cleared our garage and parked inside.

Imagine knowing how your city or state will cope with drier and warmer conditions over the next 30 years; imagine getting a tornado warning an hour in advance providing an opportunity to get your family properly sheltered; imagine being able to evacuate only those coastal residents that will be directly impacted by a hurricane and not unnecessarily clearing hundreds of miles of the coast; imagine being able to tell a fire incident manager where the fire front will be in 6 hrs; imagine airline routing system that knows where a squall line will be in 12 hrs and the resulting efficiency in airport acceptance rates; or imagine air quality predictions that would allow the time for special precautions to be taken for those at risk.

The Bill requires the Commission to issue advanced notice to the charity of its intention to issue a warning, but notice can be issued within 24 hours of a warning «going live».