Sentences with phrase «hurricane is in the offing»

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American Apparel blasted customers with an e-mail titled «Hurricane Sandy Sale,» offering customers 20 percent off «in case you're bored during the storm.»

Hurricane Jose, moving west - northwest and last located about 415 miles off the Northern Leeward Islands, was updated to an «extremely dangerous» Category 4 storm and is expected in the northeastern Caribbean on Saturday.

First off, yes: There's consensus that the science of climate change predicts that in a warming world, hurricanes will become more intense, carry more rain, and cause worse coastal flooding linked in part to sea level rise.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which knocked off more than 20 percent of U.S. refinery capacity in the peak of refinery shutdowns, hedge funds are betting on a rise in fuel prices and have boosted their net long positions on U.S. gasoline and diesel to highs not seen for yearIn the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which knocked off more than 20 percent of U.S. refinery capacity in the peak of refinery shutdowns, hedge funds are betting on a rise in fuel prices and have boosted their net long positions on U.S. gasoline and diesel to highs not seen for yearin the peak of refinery shutdowns, hedge funds are betting on a rise in fuel prices and have boosted their net long positions on U.S. gasoline and diesel to highs not seen for yearin fuel prices and have boosted their net long positions on U.S. gasoline and diesel to highs not seen for years.

Within 48 hours the president had signed into law a bill that provides $ 15 billion in hurricane funding, a bill that delays the potential government shut down at the end of this month to December 8th and a bill that pushes the debt ceiling fight which is perhaps the most market moving event that comes out of Washington off until sometime in 2018.

The Charleston, Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach areas of South Carolina, hit hard by Hurricane Hugo in 1989, were unscathed as Fran hit just south of Wilmington, N.C.... Emilee Klein is not happy about being left off the U.S. Solheim Cup team that will play Europe next week in Chepstow, Wales.

Six games were cancelled in the first two weeks of the season due to the two hurricanes, two more scheduled for Week 3 have already been called off as the state of Florida continues to assess the damage, and Miami's scheduled primetime showdown with Florida State has been postponed until Oct. 7.

The Hurricane return only 29 percent of last year's offensive production, a level that almost guarantees regression, and they are projected to fall to 78th in Off.

Their rainy period runs from late June until September, with the rain usually occurring in the evening — so it is possible to travel in the off season at reduced rates without fear of a hurricane.

Ms. Glen said the administration was working to incorporate construction unions into as many projects as possible, having recently signed off on deals to employ union labor on «hundreds of millions» of dollars in capital improvements at the New York City Housing Authority and «billions» in Hurricane Sandy recovery work.

On Tuesday, it was announced that $ 2 million in federal funds for Hurricane Sandy relief would kick off the design phase of the project.

Cuomo, who traveled with his three daughters that day, was supposed to go to a fundraiser in Skaneateles after the fair, but called that off to return to Albany to prepare for Hurricane - turned - Tropical Storm Irene.

Residents of Vieques, the small island off the coast of Puerto Rico, are struggling to connect to the mainland and find potable water in the wake of Hurricane Maria's devastation.

This was the meal New York University laid out on Thursday night to formally welcome 57 college students from Puerto Rico whose studies were knocked off course by Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island in September.

Winds from Hurricane Sandy were stronger coming off Lake Ontario than in other parts of central New York.

Many of us have been mesmerized over the past week or two by images of swirling clouds and epic floods as our nation took a pounding by back to back hurricanes with a third in the offing.

Because of unprecedented hurricane - related rainfall in southeastern Texas last week, the Gulf of Mexico and its bountiful offshore ecosystems are contending with the record - setting pulse of freshwater — a volume of water exceeding the entire Chesapeake Bay — that surged off the land, sweeping along sediment, nutrients, and pollutants.

If water temperatures in the Atlantic are higher than normal, as they are now, hurricanes, which feed off warm ocean water, are more likely to form.

Re # 26 — As we drift off course here and are talking about the weather, volcanism interaction, I have always thought it odd that Mt Pinatubo's big explosion in 1991 was in the middle of a hurricane (typhoon).

Originally, I had thought that much of increase of the N. Atlantic ITCZ SSTs used in the Hurricane potential analysis could be related to the increase in phytoplankton blooms off the coast of North Western Regions of Africa.

Now, I'm off to turn the weather channel on to make sure hurricane Jose is just going to keep doing donuts in the Atlantic instead of coming to hit us...

However, I've been feeling off - track lately with the impact of Hurricane Sandy still fresh and palpable in and around New York City.

Coming off one of the most ruthless hurricane seasons in memory, here is the new trailer for Adrift, the survival - at - sea drama starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin from director Baltasar Kormákur.

The movie begins with a hurricane on Mars, a life - threatening debris storm, and a spaceship that might not be able to lift off in the chaos.

Akuma's Tatsumaki, or hurricane kick, would go off without a problem when I needed it to and worked great for applying pressure, but routinely I would fail an input for his Shoryuken; perhaps this was user error and I needed to be more deliberate in my directional inputs.

The actors singled out — Russell Crowe in «The Insider,» Kevin Spacey in «American Beauty,» Denzel Washington in «The Hurricane,» Richard Farnsworth in «The Straight Story» and Sean Penn in «Sweet and Lowdown» — were fine contenders all, and it's tough to decide which should have been left off in favor of any of the others.

On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew blew the roof off of my house while I was in it.

But after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, with devastated infrastructure and too few students, the school year was effectively cancelled and the city's teachers were eventually laid off.

The new Hurricane engine is based off of the 2.4 L Tigershark four - banger, The latest version is being launched in the all - new 2014 Jeep Cherokee revival.

The chapter that came easiest was probably Elena's, though that must have been partly a function of how I wrote it: in a little cottage in Maine during Hurricane Irene, the trees thrashing wildly, bracing myself for one of them to come crashing onto the roof or my power to go out — I'm sure that some of my own anxiety was in the mix as Elena waited for her plane to take off.

When a security breach at Hoover Dam takes all the U.S. hydroelectric power stations offline the day after a category five hurricane hits the Gulf of Mexico, cutting off electricity to millions and threatening an already compromised fuel supply, Cash figures it's time to chase those white lines home to Tennessee.By the time he hits Chicago, the lights are out across the country, throwing America into a new dark age in which only the strong and the prepared will survive.READER NOTE: This is Part One of the (separately available) three - part novel Long Haul...

Most of the cars that they offer on these predatory type of car lots are actually just cast - offs from auctions that specialize in selling vehicles that may have serious problems, including those that may have been flooded in Hurricane Katrina.

ASTATULA - Lake County Animal Control is looking for homes for a passel of pooches taken in after the Southeast Volusia Humane Society had part of its roof ripped off by Hurricane Irene.The Lake facility took in 10 of 20 dogs that had to be moved from the New Smyrna Beach shelter last week.

1787 On Sept. 2, (a hurricane), 30 plus English merchantmen were on coast and off - lying areas; 15 were lost in the port of Belize.

Related: Shocking Video Shows Roof Being Blown Clean Off Building in Miami During Hurricane Irma

Richard Branson's Necker Island suffered severe damage from Hurricane Irma, but recovery is in sight.The 74 - acre paradise, just off the coast of Virgin... Read More

Tropical storm conditions are expected in parts of North Carolina later today as Hurricane Maria continues to move northward, while remaining off the coast of the United States.

After Belize City was largely wiped out in 1961 by the violent Hurricane Hattie, this country — then known as British Honduras — decided to move its capital to a patch of land well off the coast where they'd have room to expand.

And hurricane forecasting is very good in the region and the fall off in tourist traffic has been minimal,» he reiterated.

The hurricane's winds of 120 miles per hour hit Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker, the two largest islands off the coast of Belize, doing about $ 100 million in damage and killing four people, including two American citizens, residents of Ambergris Caye who were attempting to move their catamaran to safe harbor.

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Originally, I had thought that much of increase of the N. Atlantic ITCZ SSTs used in the Hurricane potential analysis could be related to the increase in phytoplankton blooms off the coast of North Western Regions of Africa.

Imagine, say, a bell - shaped curve based on the null hypothesis that climate change is not happening (and not having an impact on increasing extreme weather events), and there is this really long tail out to infinity; and supposing we get an off - the - charts category 7 hurricane in January, we still can not attribute it or its extra intensity or unusual seasonality to climate change, even if there is only a one in kazillion chance it might occur without climate change having an effect — that is, it is way out there in the very tiny tail of this null hypothesis curve that fades out into infinity — the tail that says, afterall, anything's possible.

Without going into excruciating detail, economists are not saying that hurricanes are making us better off, or that there'd be no costs attributable to climate change, if GDP in the year 2100 were 99 % composed of reconstructing housing after hurricanes.

The 2100 cut - off is somewhat arbitrary, more cat 5 hurricanes could be avoided in the 22nd century, but also most of the climate action for that could occur late.

A home in Franklin, N.C., was swept 60 yards off its foundation by a mudslide triggered by the remnants of Hurricane Ivan.

The Pacific off Central America has generated 3 hurricanes in a row and this hurricane season is looking very active.

This Atlantic hurricane season is projected by government and private forecasters to be around normal or a bit above, largely because of persistent warmth in tropical seas, and with a lack of the wind patterns in El Niño years that can cut off the tops of forming hurricanes.

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I had rather hoped that the students would find something interesting in the hurricane posts, but apparently they were rather put off by the tone of the blog.