Sentences with phrase «hurricane strength»

A total of 9 to 11 are expected to reach hurricane strength.

He points out that climate change may increase hurricane strength.

I recall they still tended to underestimate hurricane strength, however.

A fresh study by a leading hurricane researcher has raised new questions about how hurricane strength and frequency might, or might not, be influenced by global warming.

But I understand that the authors here were arguing towards and effective upper limit on hurricane strength.

Not surprisingly, perceptions of hurricane strength were mainly based on the intensity of the most recent storm they experienced, rather than an average of the last several.

According to NOAA's Historical Hurricane Tracks website, there were 39 tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific in May from 1950 - 2016, but only two of them made landfall at hurricane strength in May: Category 1 Hurricane Agatha of 1971, and Category 1 Hurricane Barbara of 2013.

With Hermine crossing northern Florida this morning briefly at hurricane strength, the record is now set at 10 years between 2006 and 2016.

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When you begin to consider the fact that as sea level is predicted to rise with melting ice caps even a foot or less of increase can have devastating impacts when associated with storm surges created by hurricane strength storms.

There is no straightforward connection between hurricane strength and sea surface temperatures (Swanson, 2008) and when we look at past records, hurricanes vary much more coherently with natural climate oscillations than with increasing greenhouse gasses (Chylek and Lesins, 2008).

Vecchi admits, «We're in an uncomfortable position, because it is not clear we should be able to see [increasing hurricane strength] in the data yet.»

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Isaac neared hurricane strength last night, closing on the Gulf Coast with a projected landfall a day short of the seventh anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina.

The storm is forecast to be at Category 1 hurricane strength when it makes landfall tonight just south of New Orleans.

It's these lower wind speeds, around hurricane strength, that are most common — even on the edges of stronger storms — according to Grimes.

The public is asked to remain alert as there is a possibility that Franklin could reach Hurricane strength just before making landfall this evening or tonight.

Incidentally, all the glass is hurricane strength glass!

Still smaller, to be sure, than natural variability, but certainly not nothing, when once considers that that each degree c represents a 15 - 20 mph increase in potential hurricane strength.

In this case though, the mean is assumed to be a function of time, and there are other variables that affect it as well (e.g. El Nino), and we don't even know if we have a reliable dataset (e.g. has our ability to determine hurricane strength improved with time).

The National Hurricane Center's final 3 - day projected track for Hurricane Irene keeps the powerful storm centered on the populous metropolitan corridor from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., through New York City — showing the storm still maintaining hurricane strength as it approaches the New York coastline.

But anyway, the Nature article does not say that global warming is not effecting hurricane strength.

The «Saffir - Simpson» scale rates hurricane strength in this way from Category 1 to Category 5.

Hurricane Ivan is the third potent hurricane to strike the United States in 32 days, and Tropical Storm Jeanne, skirting Puerto Rico, was intensifying toward hurricane strength, forecasters said.

Not only did Hurricane Wilma cause almost $ 17 billion in property damage making it one of the costliest hurricanes ever, it shattered hurricane strength records.

Or it may be possible to only cool in one particular region off the Gulf of Mexico that would reduce hurricane strength in that area.

The researchers used statistical models and techniques from a field of mathematics called information theory to determine factors contributing to hurricane strength from 1970 to 2004 in six of the world's ocean basins, including the North Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

By Marie - Louise Gumuchian and Anthony Deutsch LONDON / AMSTERDAM (Reuters)- Hurricane strength winds battered northern Europe on Monday, killing more than a dozen people, cutting power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and train journeys.

Kevin, I poked around and didn't find anything specific about more turbulence at the tropopause; maybe you're thinking of hurricane strength increasing with increasing lapse rate?

«One statistic that people should remember is that on average, about 1 in every 3 major hurricanes makes landfall at major hurricane strength (in the U.S.)» he said.

Not only can we use science and resulting technology to measure the force generated by the wind and the components of the air in the wind, we can predict where the wind is going to be and generate the same force of wind in a lab, right up to hurricane strength winds.

The GOP convention is underway in Florida despite threats that Tropical Storm Isaac could reach hurricane strength and make landfall somewhere along a stretch from New Orleans to the Florida Panhandle.

Six to 10 of those storms are likely to reach hurricane strength, the agency said in its initial forecast for the 2011 storm season, which begins June 1 and ends Nov. 1.

«We found quite extraordinary wind speeds of about 50 metres per second — which are hurricane strength winds — blowing close to the surface, just 600 metres above the waves,» he told New Scientist.

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.

(The often - touted link between climate change and increased hurricane strength, however, has yet to be firmly established.)

In the last 10 seasons — 1998 - 2007 — those averages have been about 15 tropical and subtropical storms per year, about 8.1 reaching hurricane strength, and about 3.7 reaching major hurricane strength.

A recent report from the University of Colorado stated, «The analysis does not indicate significant long - period global or individual basin trends in the frequency or intensity of landfalling [tropical cyclones] of minor or major hurricane strength.»