Sentences with phrase «hurricane records for»

The two now have continuous tree - ring hurricane records for parts of the southeast dating back 227 years, from 1770 to 1997.

It also extends the hurricane record for the region by hundreds of years, back to the first century, he said.

Not exact matches

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday afternoon said a record 51.88 inches (131.78 cm) of rain has fallen in Texas due to Harvey, a record for any storm in the continental United States.

At one point, the hurricane was so strong in the Caribbean that it was identified as a Category 5, breaking the record for the most powerful storm ever detected in the open Atlantic.

It's tradition for Branson to coop up at his home on Necker Island and stick it out through major hurricanes — he's done so three times throughout the past 30 years, and this record - breaking storm was no different.

For example, the largest storm surge recorded before Katrina was about 22 feet, during Hurricane Camille in 1969.

Earlier in the week, Irma sustained 185 mph winds for more than 24 hours, a record length of time for a hurricane in the Atlantic.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

AUSTIN — A trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season led to the costliest year for natural disasters on record in the U.S. in 2017, with nearly a third of a trillion dollars in damage,...

Harvey dumped more than 4 feet of rain on Houston, setting a new record for the greatest amount of rain recorded from a single tropical storm or hurricane in the continental United States.

In 2017, the U.S. endured its costliest year for weather and climate disasters on record because of a trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season.

AUSTIN — A trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season led to the costliest year for natural disasters on record in the U.S. in 2017, with nearly a third of a trillion dollars in damage, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday.

Hurricane Harvey racked up total damage costs of $ 125 billion, second only to Hurricane Katrina in the 38 - year period of record keeping for billion - dollar disasters.

A local teenager who broke a Guinness World record when he started his charity Kids4Community earlier this year, is now putting together hygiene kits for Hurricane Harvey victims.

In a separate tweet, Ventrice had the following troubling comment: «Wow, a number of ECMWF EPS members show a maximum - sustained windspeed of 180 + mph for #Irma, rivaling Hurricane #Allen (1980) for record wind»

Irma, the center storm in this image, broke a new record for hurricane intensity by sustaining 185 mph winds for 36 hours.

Pent - up demand following a shutdown for Hurricane Sandy combined with near - record - low interest rates to release a torrent of new corporate bond issues in early November.

Hurricane Wilma set a record for lowest barometric pressure recorded in our hemisphere.

After that Ismail squandered a fortune funding not only that inspirational movie but also the music label COZ Records («The guy was areal good talker,» says Rocket); a cosmetics procedure whereby oxygen was absorbed into the skin («We were not prepared for the sharks in the beauty industry»); a plan to create nationwide phone - card dispensers («When I was in college, phone cards were a big deal»); and, recently, three shops dubbed It's in the Name, where tourists could buy framed calligraphy of names or proverbs of their choice («The main store opened up in New Orleans, but doggone Hurricane Katrina came two months later»).

Rodriguez had made his bid for inclusion in The Guinness Book of World Records by riding the Hurricane for 173 consecutive hours — good for a total of 2,624 miles, or the distance from Haines City to San Francisco.

«With their leadership, we secured a record increase in funding for universal Pre-K, a fair budget for New York City, needed property tax relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy, and the changes we need to save lives and improve street safety.»

The congressman has, in fact, often brought up his record of «fighting for victims» of Hurricane Sandy when asked about his re-election prospects.

The United States set a new record last year for the total cost of weather and climate change - related disasters that exceeded $ 1 billion, driven largely by wildfires and hurricanes.

He said that many of the more than 400 uncounted signatures were rejected because the BOE's records for voters have not been updated, especially for voters affected by Hurricane Sandy.

But a list of donors to the Mayor's Hurricane Sandy fund for the year following the gala provided by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board showed no record of any donations coming from the European School of Economics Foundation, nor from any of its administrators.

Former Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway, for instance, posted a memo online defending the administration's record on rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy.

«In his latest attempt to distract voters from his abysmal record on jobs and his failure to grow Connecticut's economy, Governor Malloy manages to exploit both the Newtown tragedy and the devastation of Hurricane Sandy for political gain,» state Republican Party Chair Jerry Labriola Jr. wrote in a statement.

Mr. Kaminsky, who has also built a strong record advocating for Hurricane Sandy victims in Long Beach, his hometown, vows to be a full - time lawmaker with a keen focus on ethics.

«The devastation we have seen in the last month not only from massive hurricanes but from record heat waves and wildfires should be a wake - up call for elected officials.

The record - setting melt of Arctic sea ice helped set the stage for Hurricane Sandy according to scientists

Álvaro Corral of the Centre for Mathematical Research in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues looked at records of hurricanes from four ocean basins around the world between 1966 and 2007.

For a storm north of Cape Hatteras, N.C., Hurricane Gladys of 1977 holds the record at 27.73 inches.

Cyclone Winston last year was the strongest storm ever to touch down in the Southern Hemisphere, while this September was the most active month on record for hurricanes in the Atlantic basin.

Twelve of them became hurricanes, tying for the third most active recorded season.

So, below are the records set by the most impressive North Atlantic hurricanes, since meteorologists began to name them more than half a century ago — as well as for storms in the Pacific Ocean, which actually rank number one in many of the categories.

«Smaller» hurricanes can still be terribly dangerous and damaging, too; Hurricane Harvey, which just drowned Texas and Louisiana, does not make the record books in any category — except for rainfall.

On Wednesday, September 6, the colossal category 5 Hurricane Irma amped up its already stunning winds to 185 miles per hour — the second fastest ever recorded for a hurricane in the AtlantHurricane Irma amped up its already stunning winds to 185 miles per hour — the second fastest ever recorded for a hurricane in the Atlanthurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.

For example, when examining hurricanes and typhoons, the lack of a high - quality, long - term historical record, uncertainty regarding the impact of climate change on storm frequency and inability to accurately simulate these storms in most global climate models raises significant challenges when attributing assessing the impact of climate change on any single storm.

«It is difficult to use climate models to study hurricane activity, and so studies such as ours, which produced a record of storms under different climate conditions, are important for our understanding of future storm activity,» Denniston said.

Three massive hurricanes, severe storms and wildfires across the U.S. caused more than $ 306 billion in damage last year, making 2017 the most expensive year for climate disasters on record.

It was a record year for green turtle nesting along the refuge's beaches in southern Brevard County, but storm surge due to hurricane Irma destroyed many unhatched loggerhead and green turtle nests.

She notes that a reliable proxy record for hurricanes would be very useful as a way of evaluating models of storm activity.

This hurricane season set a record for the most consecutive hurricanes and threatens to make that unprecedented storm seem run - of - the - mill.

Prior to Sept. 1, Kilo was one of a trio of Category 4 hurricanes in the northeastern Pacific — a record clustering for any ocean basin.

The hurricane season of 2017 has been one for the record books with three major hurricanes making landfall on U.S. states and territories within a four - week period leaving devastating impacts that the research community is just beginning to understand.

Part of the difficulty is «miserable» global historical hurricane records, says Prof Kevin Trenberth from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research.

With events like Hurricane Irene, the Texas drought and the Midwest floods, 2011 has already set a record for billion dollar weather disasters.

The previous record for major hurricanes for the basin was 10 in 1992.

At a time when the East Coast is being savaged by what could be one of the most devastating storms on record in Hurricane Sandy, Yahoo has decided to release a trailer for Struck by Lightning.

Although it may not be entirely possible to avoid an audit finding if TEA's guidance is followed, it is nonetheless incumbent upon and important for districts and charters to document the loss of records due to Hurricane Harvey and any other weather or unforeseeable and uncontrollable event.