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The «extremely dangerous» hurricane was downgraded from a Category 5 to a Category 4 early on Friday, but it still packed winds as strong as 155 miles per hour.

The «extremely dangerous» hurricane was downgraded from a category 5 to a category 4 early on Friday, but it still packed winds as strong as 155 miles per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an hurricane was downgraded from a category 5 to a category 4 early on Friday, but it still packed winds as strong as 155 miles per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an advisory.

Wind damage from hurricanes is covered by property insurers; flood damage is not.

Its hurricane force winds extended about 50 or 60 miles out from its center, whereas Irma's extended around 80.

It occurs when strong winds from an approaching hurricane push water into the shore.

With tropical force winds reaching 230 miles from its center, Hurricane Maria completely engulfed Puerto Rico as it bisected the 100 - mile wide island, picking up steam again one it was clear.

Hurricane Harvey was one of the worst in Texas» history, but even as the winds die down, the damage from rain remains.

The devastation from Hurricane Harvey will linger for months and even years, but another hurricane is already heading for the Southeast U.S., one with much strongHurricane Harvey will linger for months and even years, but another hurricane is already heading for the Southeast U.S., one with much stronghurricane is already heading for the Southeast U.S., one with much stronger winds.

The island avoided a direct hit from Hurricane Irma earlier this month, but was still lashed with rain and heavy winds that left nearly 900,000 people without power.

The Deerfield Beach International Fishing Pier was closed Friday because of apparent damage from the winds of Hurricane Matthew Thursday night.

Hurricane Harvey fell from a Category 4 to Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it getHurricane Harvey fell from a Category 4 to Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it gethurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it gets better.

The story is told of a butterfly flapping its wings and the wind from this seemingly unrelated action eventually ends in a major wind storm or hurricane on another continent thousands of miles away.

Of all the Caribbean islands in the path of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's infrastructure seems the least equipped to handle the flooding and blackouts from category 4 winds.

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey was making the rounds in Brevard County around noon Sunday as Brevard waits for the arrival of heaving winds and storm surge from Hurricane Irma.

Cocoa Beach Mayor Ben Malik says part of the roof of the Cocoa Beach Police Department has come off because of the winds from Hurricane Irma, said Brevard County Emergency Management Center spokesman David Waters.

Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas last Friday, dangerous flooding has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes, leaving «unprecedented» rainfall and winds to wreak havoc.

«From the complete destruction of the Rockaway Boardwalk to recreational assets and natural habitats broken up by wind and water, New York City's parks were faced with unprecedented damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,» Commissioner Mitchell Silver said.

High winds, dangerous rip currents and potential coastal flooding could turn parts of Long Island into a soggy and treacherous mess as the area braces for a glancing but powerful blow from Hurricane Jose — one of two strong tropical storms on the National Hurricane Center's watch list.

Cuomo says he does not want to scare people, but he says there is concern that the storm predicted for Wednesday and Thursday could be potentially significant, and he says there are worries that debris that still litters many streets and yards from Hurricane Sandy could become projectiles in high winds, and that already damaged homes could be further effected.

Winds from Hurricane Sandy were stronger coming off Lake Ontario than in other parts of central New York.

Hurricane Irma's large eye is beginning to move slowly away from the Florida Keys as it continues north with 130 mph (215 kph) winds.

The National Weather Service says that a crane has collapsed in Miami as strong wind from Hurricane Irma blows in.

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.

Winds gusting at speeds of up to 1,650 km / h blow from West to East in the equatorial atmosphere, thirteen times the strength of the most destructive hurricane force winds that form on Earth «s equWinds gusting at speeds of up to 1,650 km / h blow from West to East in the equatorial atmosphere, thirteen times the strength of the most destructive hurricane force winds that form on Earth «s equwinds that form on Earth «s equator.

Winds from a category 5 hurricane (the most severe), by comparison, reach about 250 kilometers per hour.

Winds from the storm reached 174 miles per hour, and it's considered one of the top five deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history.

According to Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson, offshore wind turbines could reduce onshore damage from hurricanes without sustaining significant damage themselves.

Hurricane Sandy barreled into the U.S. East Coast on October 29, bringing heavy rains, high winds and severe storm surges from the Carolinas to New England.

Powerful hurricanes such as Harvey, Irma and Maria are also providing a testing ground for new tools that scientists hope will save lives by improving forecasts in various ways, from narrowing a storm's future path to capturing swift changes in the intensity of storm winds.

A week after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast, parts of the Northeast are still reeling from the wind, rain and flooding.

Stephen Rose and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, modelled the risk hurricanes might pose to turbines at four proposed wind farm sites.

«Our Doppler LIDAR instrument can be used from a plane to remotely measure a hurricane's wind with high spatial and temporal resolutions.

The team suggests in an upcoming paper in The Astrophysical Journal that the spirals result from subsurface turbulence in the sun's superhot gases — the equivalent of what happens on Earth when turbulent winds whip up tornadoes and hurricanes.

A forest of 78,000 turbines would have drastically reduced the winds and storm surges from hurricanes Katrina and Sandy

Hurricane graphics will also include an experimental visualization of how far damaging winds extend out from the center of a storm.

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.

Meanwhile, the hurricane grew from Category 3 to Category 4 on the Saffir - Simpson scale, with winds clocked at around 125 mph.

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.

NOAA's latest forecasts warn of the potential for hurricane - force winds from the northern Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod, Mass., and well inland, with rainfall totals topping 12 inches in some areas.

THE solar wind is a hurricane of charged particles that blows from the Sun's outer atmosphere into deep space at a million miles per hour.

As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, federal forecasters are warning that the massive storm could bring «life - threatening» storm surges, flooding, hurricane - force winds, heavy rain and even blizzardlike snowfall over an area stretching from the Carolinas to Canada, and westHurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, federal forecasters are warning that the massive storm could bring «life - threatening» storm surges, flooding, hurricane - force winds, heavy rain and even blizzardlike snowfall over an area stretching from the Carolinas to Canada, and westhurricane - force winds, heavy rain and even blizzardlike snowfall over an area stretching from the Carolinas to Canada, and west to Ohio.

Already he has shown, at least on the computer screen, that small changes in wind and air temperature — in fact, no more than 3 to 5 degrees — could have redirected hurricane Iniki away from landfall in 1992 and reduced the strength of hurricane Andrew that same year.

Vulnerable Haiti is braced for flash floods and violent winds from extremely dangerous Hurricane Matthew as the powerful storm remains on a path aiming at the hemisphere's poorest country.

In 2014, sustained winds from Hurricane Arthur mixed Chesapeake Bay waters, delivering oxygen to the bottom and dramatically reducing the size of the hypoxic zone to 0.58 cubic miles.

Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes Kerry Emanuel; Oxford University Press, $ 40 Katrina was a zephyr compared to the Great Hurricane of 1780; the Western Hemisphere's deadliest storm wiped islands clean and claimed 22,000 souls from Bermuda to Barbados.

Westerink points out that, historically, sustained easterly winds from hurricanes have directed storm surge across Breton Sound into the Mississippi River and against its west bank levees.

When winds from a hurricane blow water toward the shore, it can collect into a surge.

On Friday morning, the National Hurricane Center forecast indicated 50 percent or greater odds for tropical storm - force winds — surface winds greater than 39 mph — from Georgia to the eastern edge of Long Island.