Sentences with phrase «hurricane wind speeds»

For hurricane wind speeds, our model shows a sensitivity of about 4 % per degree Celsius increase in tropical sea surface temperatures, with a larger percentage increase in near - storm rainfall.

Roger, presumably the losses due to societal changes, increased hurricane wind speeds and rising sea levels will interact.

The Association of British Insurers use an Insurance Catastrophe Model to estimate that a 6 % increase in hurricane wind speeds will increase the annual insured losses by $ 3.9 billion in the US and $ 1.6 billion in Japan (2004 $).

Hurricane wind speeds, rainfall intensity, and storm surge levels are likely to increase.

As climate change warms sea surfaces, the heat available to power hurricanes has increased, raising the limit for potential hurricane wind speed and with that an exponential increase in potential wind damage.

Not exact matches

Harvey arrived on the shores of Texas as a hurricane Friday night, packing sustained wind speeds as high as 130 mph.

The vortex, a mass of whirling gas much like a hurricane, is larger than the Earth and has top wind speeds of 220 mph.

Now Hurricane Jose, a Category 4 storm, is headed for Antigua and Barbuda with maximum sustained wind speeds of 150 mph, and local officials are trying to evacuate the entire island of Barbuda in the few hours they have to do so.

On Thursday, forecasters said Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to become a Category 3 hurricane packing 115 mile - per - hour (100 knot) wind speeds by landfall late Friday or early Saturday.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a hurricane severity scale that factors in wind speed, hurricane size, and forward speed (whether it stalls or not) to rate the potential destructiveness of a storm 1 - to - 10 scale.

In fact, it can be the most dangerous part of any hurricane, and it is only partly determined by wind speed (the aspect of a storm on which the hurricane categories are based).

It's possible that historic hurricane records, which go back to the 1800s, are incomplete or have inaccurate information on wind speeds and size.

Hurricane Irma, still in the Atlantic, strengthened to a Category 5 storm on Tuesday, with wind speeds in excess of 175 miles per hour.

Sure, the NOAA's National Hurricane Center has airplanes that fly through storms to obtain hour - by - hour barometric pressure and wind speed data.

The only one to beat it was Hurricane Allen in 1980 where winds reached speed of up to 190 miles per hour.

«We're still under hurricane watch and it looks likely we'll have substantial rain, storm surges and wind speeds that could be pretty severe».

go ahead, use prayer to change the course, speed, and wind velocity of Hurricane Sandy.

On the bright side, forecasts show that Hurricane Maria is weakening, with sustained wind speeds of 80 miles per hour, and is expected to be downgraded to a tropical storm by Tuesday.

As of 11 p.m., CBS2's Lonnie Quinn reported Hurricane Maria was 65 miles east - southeast of Grand Turk Island as a strong Category 3 storm, with sustained wind speeds of 125 mph.

Hurricane Matthew is currently battering the coastline of the US state of Florida but has been downgraded to a Category Two storm, with sustained wind speed dropping to 110mph (177km / h).

The National Hurricane Center says Category 4 Hurricane Irma is now «headed for the southwest Florida coast» as winds continue to pick up speed in all of South Florida.

A blast of air surged at speeds exceeding 600 mph, bringing hurricane - force winds to what is now North America.

Out of 58 hurricanes, 56 showed a significant correlation between lightning activity and wind speed, with peak winds arriving 30 hours after the lightning on average.

They calculated how much energy each recorded hurricane released, based on its wind speeds and how long it lasted.

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«It's giving unparalleled details about the hurricanes,» Tang says, including data on wind speeds and water temperatures delivered every minute that are then fed into models.

«As hurricane Harvey approached the U.S., hurricane hunters flew directly into the storm and dropped sensors to measure wind speed,» said Xiankang Dou, leader of the research team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Activity within the eyewall is closely connected to the hurricane's overall intensity, with the vertical updraft fed by an inward - spiraling, ocean - hugging wind whose average speed is the highest across the whole storm.

Engineer Jon Sinnreich of the University of Florida and colleagues work on a portable tower used to measure wind speeds during Hurricane Irma.

Artist's rendering of NASA's ISS - RapidScat instrument (inset), which will launch to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction and help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring.

«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.

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

Worldwide, the proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 or 5 — with wind speeds above 56 metres per second — has risen from 20 % in the 1970s to 35 % in the 1990s.

He suspects the spirals have some connection with Venus's superhigh - speed equatorial winds, which, unlike Earth's hurricanes, stay in place year after year.

«We should use central pressure deficit, not wind speed, to predict hurricane damage.»

Pressure and wind speed have been used interchangeably to estimate potential damage from hurricanes for years, but the relationship between them has been a long - standing riddle in tropical meteorology.

While hurricane hunter aircraft can help determine wind speed, velocity, water temperature and other data, the fact is we often don't know why or how a storm gets stronger or weaker.

Yet its upper - atmosphere winds howl along at hurricane speeds, circling the planet in just four Earth days.

Also shown are the paths of the hurricanes that caused those floods, along with other aspects that most likely influenced storm - surge height, including wind speed and barometric pressure.

Like a compact series of cogs in an unimaginably large machine, vast cyclones also swirl around the north and south poles, clocking wind speeds of over 220 miles per hour (350 kilometers per hour)-- wind speeds that are the equivalent of a terrestrial Category 5 hurricane.

The ACE index is used to calculate the intensity of the hurricane season and is a function of the wind speed and duration of each tropical cyclone.

As of August 30, 2015, three separate hurricanes were spinning in the central and Eastern Pacific, all of which were classified as major hurricanes due to their sustained wind speeds in excess of 110 mph.

And in October, Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and had the highest wind speeds ever directly measured, clocking in atHurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and had the highest wind speeds ever directly measured, clocking in athurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and had the highest wind speeds ever directly measured, clocking in at 200 mph.

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Students research the math and science associated with a hurricane and graphically display the related numbers, including category, rainfall, storm surge, wind speed, and accuracy of predicted paths with actual landfall: all tasks that require logical - mathematical intelligence.

Winds with speeds of almost 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph / 55 knots - hurricane force) are most common during the autumn and the spring.

Irma made landfall as a category five hurricane, the highest possible level, with wind speeds of 180 mph.

My guess is that Katrina and Andrew were the most powerful, combined wind speed and size, hurricanes to hit the U.S. of the last three centuries, or longer.

I would also like to see a scale that would include size and wind speed parameters, for ranking total power of hurricane for the U.S.

You would risk being blown away if you tried to measure the maximum wind speed of a hurricane or the pressure drop in a hurricanes eye.