Sentences with phrase «hurricane status as»

Last year, Hurricane Matthew rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to hurricane status as it moved over the Caribbean Sea in the location where a warm ocean eddy exists, and in close proximity to where these measurements were taken for this study two years prior.

Not exact matches

Alex is expected to maintain hurricane status on Friday, Jan. 15 and transition into an extra-tropical storm by Jan. 16 as it continues to move north toward Greenland.

And then two to four of those hurricanes would be expected to reach major hurricane status, defined as Category 3 or above on the Saffir - Simpson scale of hurricane strength, or winds above 111 mph.

During the week of Sept. 5, spacecraft captured imagery of hurricane Irma as the storm reached category 5 status in the Atlantic Ocean.

And in New Orleans, which was almost completely taken over by charter school operators, significant academic gains have been made by students — but it's a situation not easily replicated as the city had reached rock bottom status thanks to Hurricane Katrina.

The meteorological focus is on Hurricane Harvey, which increased in strength to Category 4 status Friday evening when its winds jumped to 130 mph as it makes way northwestward to the south Texas coast.

Hurricane American Red Cross While this app is lighter on actual meteorological information than some of the others — the latest iTune version doesn't get as good reviews for actual tracking compared to previous versions — it still allows you to monitor conditions while also providing plenty of information on preparing your home and family, finding help and shelters (which could be especially helpful) and alerting others of your status.

Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to enter into an arrangements with NAS to study: (1) the current status of ice sheet melt, as caused by climate change, with implications for global sea level rise; and (2) the current state of the science on the potential impacts of climate change on patterns of hurricane and typhoon development and the implications for hurricane - prone and typhoon - prone coastal regions.

As a result, in the 1995 - 2005 record, 40 % of all North Atlantic hurricanes reached category 3 status (45 of 112).