Sentences with phrase «hurricane strength as»

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.

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Within a few years, Intrade amassed 25,000 users willing to wager money on whether Osama Bin Laden would be captured, the strength of the upcoming hurricane season in the U.S., or more mundane matters such as the Nasdaq close.

Hurricane Jose is a Category 4 storm as well; when it and Irma were at their peak strengths earlier this week, it was the first time two hurricanes with 150 - plus mph winds have been in the Atlantic at the same time.

The airline's dedication to providing extensive hurricane relief on the Caribbean island — and in the continental U.S. — underscores its commitment to leveraging its strengths as a business to rise up as a force for good in the community.

«BPS made the decision to close as the hurricane's path, strength and potential impact on Brevard County became more clear,» said BPS spokeswoman Jennifer Wolfinger.

«In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, our country's better angels are showing up with compassion and incredible strength as Americans help Americans through this tragedy.»

The hurricane has gradually lost strength, however, and has been downgraded to Category 1 as it continues to move its way across land.

Puerto Ricans are burrowed inside shelters, cement bunkers, and boarded - up houses as Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm still gathering strength, whirls toward the US territory.

Scientists use ocean data to more accurately predict a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall

Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.

But a reduction in the number and intensity of large hurricanes driving ocean waters on shore — such as this month's Hurricane Joaquin, seen, which reached category 4 strength — may also play a role by cooling sea - surface temperatures that fuel the growth of these monster storms, the team notes.

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.

There is, however, limited evidence from a relatively short time period that storm strength is increasing, such as the Emanuel (2005) «power dissipation index» of hurricane intensity.

As the planet warms from increasing greenhouse gases, more energy is going into the oceans, which is an important component in the strength of hurricanes (also known as tropical cyclonesAs the planet warms from increasing greenhouse gases, more energy is going into the oceans, which is an important component in the strength of hurricanes (also known as tropical cyclonesas tropical cyclones).

As the hurricanes Iselle and Julio gain in strength near Hawaii, it will be interesting to see how the storms on another world also continue to evolve.

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.

Personally, I am all for scientific discourse, but not one that uses very subjective data (as clearly pointed out in the re-analysis of data at the NOAA Hurricane Research Center) as strength of the argument.

Another question we must ask is: will greater numbers of hurricanes of Category 4 or 5 strength make landfall as a result of climate change (due to SSTs warming along with, but at a slower rate and with some time lag as, the atmosphere)?

In particular, the oxygen isotope ratios can reveal that a hurricane has occurred, but as far as I can see give little indication of strength.

Wind varies in intensity and strength from a gentle breeze to a powerful and destructive storm, such as a hurricane or tornado.

Hurricanes, for example, should tend to increase in strength as seas become warmer2 but we also expect that changes in wind shear3 (the change in wind direction with height) should cause a reduction in hurricane frequency4.

As a result, hurricane strength and damage are projected to continue increasing in a warming world.

The 2006 Saul / DCI press release quotes the Koch - funded Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels, who stated, «There are many more factors determining hurricane frequency and severity, some of which (such as westerly wind strength) should become LESS conducive to hurricanes as the planet warms.»

So as hurricane season approaches, advocates for action on climate mitigation would be well served by playing to their strengths and avoiding using hurricanes to promote their cause.

Most IPCC climate models project an increase in the strength of tropical storms and hurricanes as the oceans warm.

Over the coming decades, Atlantic hurricanes are likely to increase in strength as sea surface temperatures increase, fueling the intensity of storms in the Atlantic Ocean, and significantly increasing rainfall rates over those of present day storms.

Since weather records began in 1851, no hurricane of Matthew's predicted strength (Category 4, with sustained winds of at least 135 mph that the National Hurricane Center labels as «catastrophic») has ever made landfall in Florida north of West Pahurricane of Matthew's predicted strength (Category 4, with sustained winds of at least 135 mph that the National Hurricane Center labels as «catastrophic») has ever made landfall in Florida north of West PaHurricane Center labels as «catastrophic») has ever made landfall in Florida north of West Palm Beach.

Wetlands in Louisiana are disappearing at the rate of 33 football fields a day as hurricanes grow in strength and frequency because of climate change, she said.

The hurricane cemented a lifelong fascination with natural disasters, and led Navarro into her current career as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington, where she studies hurricane forecasting and how solar radiation affects the strength of hurricanes.

When tropical cyclones — storm systems ranging in strength from tropical depressions to major hurricanes — form over the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, they have a high chance of causing many deaths as well as widespread property damage in coastal communities.

But as waters warm, Atlantic hurricanes appear to be growing more frequent, bigger, stronger and wetter, and they also seem to be maintaining their strength farther north along the U.S. coast, according to Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at MIT.

Following that logic, as hurricanes are also predicted by AGW to increase in strength and frequency, all hurricanes are now due to AGW?

As to the theory of the quantitative strength of hurricanes I have learnt much from the early posts on this thread and haven't anything of value to add.

Since we have good reason to expect that the response may be different in the Atlantic, using evidence for increases in strength of Pacific cyclones as an argument for why we should expect increases in the number of major Atlantic hurricanes makes no sense to me.

4) As this causes an increase in hurricane frequency and strength, 5) This hurricane season should have at least 11 hurricanes in the Atlantic / Caribbean by this date.

And that sea temperature graph does seem to indicate a cycle, but alas it fails to connect with Hurricane activity, such as Andrew, born during the coldest SST average in the past 20 years, surely Andrew didn't gain strength over 27 C seas?

Some scientists have explained the rising strength of hurricanes as being part of natural weather cycles in the world's oceans.

After three days of Hurricane Harvey, the message emerging from Houston and the Texas coast is not one of chaos and destruction, but of collective strength, as Americans help each other survive through the worst of circumstances.

Frank Marks, head of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division (HRD), who flew into Andrew to assess its strength as it approached Florida, agreed that as track forecasts improve, intensity and structure have to become the focus of research.

Traveling as a Category 4, Hurricane Matthew bears great strength, also extending over 500 miles wide.

In New York, traumatic experiences such as 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy may have been key tests of the strength of the marriage or love relationship.

Waves crest and blow over the seawall at Bryant Park in Lake Worth, Fla., as the first tropical storm - strength winds of Hurricane Irma pass over central Palm Beach County on Sunday, September 10, 2017.

Strong Support Inside each of these graceful columns lies a core of stainless steel, lending the home the look of historic Galveston with the strength to survive a hurricane such as September's Ike, which pummeled the island.