Sentences with phrase «hurricane wind conditions»

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Two major factors are creating hurricane - friendly conditions in the Atlantic region, which includes the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico: warm water and a lack of wind shear.

La Nina, characterized by colder temperatures in the Pacific around the equator, affects weather in the Atlantic hurricane region as well, in the form of less wind in the tropics and therefore more hospitable conditions for hurricanes.

Satellite imagery is used for all sorts of climate study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural resources such as wind, water and sunlight.

Toxic chemicals released by floodwaters, stress, infection and dangerous working conditions will all contribute to hurricane death toll years after winds die

By Joanna D. Samson, Vice President of FOTAS By the time it hit the South Carolina Coast, Hurricane Matthew had been downgraded from a Category 5 to a Category 2 storm; but the 85 mph winds, 10 - 14 inches of rainfall and extraordinarily high storm surges nevertheless created life - threatening conditions and caused the wide - spread destruction of property.

Before that we had the swell from Hurricane Gaston arrive simultaneously with persistent onshore wind that created less than optimal surface conditions.

We are now in a post-La Nina year, which tends to result in low - wind conditions across the Atlantic hurricane zone.

The sleepy Atlantic Ocean hurricane season ended yesterday, with the development of a Pacific Ocean El Niño condition predictably shifting winds into a pattern that stifles Atlantic storms.

A hurricane watch means hurricane conditions, including winds of at least 74 mph, are possible within 36 hours.

McNoldy said the conditions are ripe because we're precisely in the middle of hurricane season and there's little wind shear, a condition in which layers of air at different altitudes move at different speeds and which tends to break up hurricanes.

«Changes in extreme wind conditions related to small scale hurricane - type storms can not be skillfully detected in models that have a resolution to [o] coarse to resolve th [ese] storms»

* Changes in extreme wind conditions related to small scale hurricane - type storms can not be skillfully detected in models that have a resolution to coarse to resolve this storms.

«The authors write that «the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation,» whereby «on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño) conditions,» and that «these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean, variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of atmospheric convection, and global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and weather patterns in many parts of the world,» which end up affecting «ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.»»

Harvey's rapid intensification from a tropical depression to an 85 - mile - per - hour hurricane in less than 24 hours was due to favorable conditions — warm water and low wind shear [29]-- in the Gulf of Mexico, where sea surface temperatures were up to 2.7 - 7.2 °F (1.5 - 4 °C) above the 1961 - 1990 average.

They found that the GNSS - R satellite data successfully sensed wind speed conditions in each hurricane compared with these other data sources.

The El Nino condition in the Pacific Ocean is one factor which can increase «wind shear» over the Atlantic, thereby limiting hurricanes even as other forces may be strengthening them.

There are other factors in determining hurricane frequency, the prediction earlier this year for the North Atlantic was a low count due to developing El Nino conditions and the resulting increased wind shear.

During the months of September 2006 through May 2007, forecasters at the NOAA Ocean Prediction Center used QuikSCAT wind measurements to identify 114 individual extratropical cyclones (64 in the North Atlantic and 50 in the North Pacific) containing extreme hurricane - force wind conditions.

Depending on the version of the algorithm, WindSat wind retrievals can be biased either high or low in high - wind - speed conditions such as hurricanes and extratropical cyclones;

XOVWM would include a dual - frequency Ku - band and C - band radar and an X-band radiometer, which would allow measurements in rainy conditions, as well as measurements of the extreme winds in hurricanes and extratropical cyclones.

For example, when there are large changes in wind speed at different altitudes (also known as «vertical wind shear») above an area of the ocean, those conditions can interfere with hurricane formation.

If these conditions exist for long enough, they combine to produce the violent winds, voracious waves, and torrential rain we've come to associate with a hurricane.

«When we see a specific hurricane coming toward the coast, we issue a hurricane watch — meaning hurricane and wind conditions may be expected in the next two days.