Sentences with phrase «hurricanes form in»

Globally hurricanes form in clusters, they are not random and they perfectly match the GAPV trend.

The recent increases in activity are linked, in part, to higher sea surface temperatures in the region that Atlantic hurricanes form in and move through.

This is a lesson on how hurricanes form in the tropics.

On average, 2.4 Atlantic hurricanes form in September each year, the most of any month.

As a result, we've had these category 4 and 5 hurricanes forming in that region.»

During this month, the sea temperatures are at their highest and the probability of hurricanes forming in the Atlantic and travelling over to the Caribbean is relatively high.

Harvey is also a powerful hurricane forming in one of the most hurricane - friendly regions of the world at the peak of hurricane season.

And since the 1980s, there has been an increase in the number and strength of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean, even though few have made landfall.

Not exact matches

In its way stood Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the recently formed RAF Fighter Command, which could field the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire, some of the best fighter aircraft in the world at the timIn its way stood Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the recently formed RAF Fighter Command, which could field the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire, some of the best fighter aircraft in the world at the timin the world at the time.

The potential crisis comes in the form of a massive hurricane gaining strength off the southeast coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico.

These hurricanes form from a tropical depression or tropical wave that passes through or near that chain of islands, and then eventually strengthens into a named system (finally becoming a hurricane at some point) in the mid-Atlantic.

Tropical cyclones — which are called typhoons, cyclones, or hurricanes depending on where you are — form in tropical regions the world over.

The experts I spoke to all said there's no simple explanation for the number of hurricanes that can form in a given year.

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.

O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it --

Also please wipe out the GOP convention with your wrath in the form of a hurricane.

The year's last hurricane, Zeta, formed on December 31, was still circling in the Atlantic on January 6.

The game started with a moment of silence in honor of the victims of the hurricane, and the fans attending brought well wishes in the form of signs they raised from the stands.

«As we bounce back from Hurricane Harvey, we are more than ready to welcome our heroes home in proper form.»

While most funding decisions would be left to make, the cap deal does provide some actual funding in the form of hurricane recovery dollars, which aren't subject to the caps.

«The primary risk that climate change may pose would be any potential increase in the frequency or intensity of strong thunderstorms, hurricanes or brushfires,» the company said on a climate risk disclosure form that California began requiring insurers to file this year.

According to the National Hurricane Center, Alex is the first hurricane to form in the month of January siHurricane Center, Alex is the first hurricane to form in the month of January sihurricane to form in the month of January since 1938.

So no, they did not form in the same area --[and] those conducive conditions needed for hurricanes are not [found] throughout the Atlantic.

Alex is also the first North Atlantic hurricane thriving in January since Alice of 1955, which formed on Dec. 30, 1954.

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 equator.

This is because terrestrial hurricanes form when an inflow of air along the ocean surface sops up moisture and rises in a halo of updrafts to create towering columns of rain clouds.

Because a hurricane cools surface water, it discourages the formation of later storms in its wake, providing a form of negative feedback that limits the hurricane merging effect.

Gigantic hurricanes, the beauty of symmetry, and a giraffe - dissecting surgeon all formed fodder for great science books in 2005.

Irma is also one of three hurricanes now formed in the Atlantic Ocean, something that has not happened in seven years.

The Labor Day Hurricane was a very compact, intense hurricane that formed in the North Atlantic during AugHurricane was a very compact, intense hurricane that formed in the North Atlantic during Aughurricane that formed in the North Atlantic during August 1935.

A NASA analysis indicates that a hurricane is twice as likely to get stronger in the next six hours when such hot towers form.

«There likely will be little traces of the hydrocarbons in the water that is condensed to form rain, but it will likely make up less than normal pollution does,» says research meteorologist Frank Marks, director of hurricane research at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Fla. «The amount of water vapor evaporated that might contain hydrocarbons related to the spill will be very, very small.»

The first is that hurricanes in the northern hemisphere form at tropical and subtropical latitudes and then tend to move toward the west - northwest.

But the agency has predicted an above average hurricane season, and that may still hold — most storms form in the second half of the hurricane season, Bell says, which doesn't end until 30 November.

Eyes in the Sky Of course, even the best radars can not see over mountains or out into the oceans, where hurricanes form.

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout, marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a minor Category 1 hurricane.

They found that future hurricanes formed further east in the tropical Atlantic, as that area had warmed sufficiently to provide enough heat and moisture to power them.

The 2017 hurricane season got off to an early start, with Tropical Storm Arlene forming in April, only the second April storm in the satellite era.

Matthew, which was for a time the first Category 5 hurricane to form in the Atlantic since Hurricane Felix in 2007, had weakened to a Category 1 storm by the time it made landfall in South Carolina lasthurricane to form in the Atlantic since Hurricane Felix in 2007, had weakened to a Category 1 storm by the time it made landfall in South Carolina lastHurricane Felix in 2007, had weakened to a Category 1 storm by the time it made landfall in South Carolina last October.

Such warming provides stronger fuel for the furious storms called tropical cyclones that form over open waters (known in the Atlantic as hurricanes).

MIAMI (Reuters)- The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout, marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a minor Category 1 hurricane.

And it can make the Atlantic season weaker, in part because it can make wind shear stronger in the Atlantic, which can pull hurricanes apart when they are trying to form.

According to fossil evidence, small primates — a group of mammals that includes humans and our closest monkey relatives — first arrived in Jamaica during the Miocene (23 million to 25 million years ago), probably on mats of vegetation that can form during major weather events, like hurricanes, that could have carried them from the American mainland.

If water temperatures in the Atlantic are higher than normal, as they are now, hurricanes, which feed off warm ocean water, are more likely to form.

When there is an El Niño, it affects high - level winds in the Atlantic and reduces the chance that hurricanes can form.

While brown tides have also occurred in Great South Bay as recently as 2008 and 2011, the presence of a new ocean inlet in eastern Great South Bay that formed during Hurricane Sandy may be assisting in keeping the blooms away in 2013.

The Atlantic basin hasn't had a Category 5 storm form since Hurricane Felix in September 2007.

Even though the El Niño hasn't technically formed, the warmer state of the Pacific is still having some impacts, including playing a part in quashing the Atlantic hurricane season.

As the hurricane forms, deeper water in the ocean is driven to the surface.

«What happens in the early part of the season is generally not a good predictor of the second half of the season, which is when the majority of hurricanes and major hurricanes form.