Sentences with phrase «hurricanes form when»

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.

Not exact matches

Although every day of the year, somewhere on this planet, it is hurricane season, only when a set of unique conditions come together do hurricanes actually form.

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

That's because a current of cold ocean water moves from north to south along the West Coast, cooling the coastal Pacific and removing the threat of hurricanes, which form only when low pressure systems siphon off the energy from warm ocean water.

No one knows why the critical temperature for forming hurricanes is now 26 °C, so this lower limit may not necessarily apply when the warm water spreads away from the tropics.

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.

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

According to Brian McNoldy of the Capital Weather Gang, the median date for when the first hurricane forms is Aug. 16.

«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.

I'm not sure that I know enough about Cal Dive's business yet to form an opinion regarding the investment case but one thought did occur to me when reading about the sensitivity to hurricanes.

However, alongside October, September is the month when a hurricane is most likely to form.

Now very often forming blocking fronts helping vast tracts of ocean to warm unhindered and when that causes sufficient evaporation to form hurricanes but this time with no roof so the vertical volume of super saturated air is greater thus causing stronger hurricanes or deeper rain depressions etc..

The «smartest people in the world» also said Iraq had WMDs, never trust the smartest people when billions of dollars is at stake, and all that money is flowing to these people in the form of grant money, research grants, carbon credits, etc. and you said A. Climate Change, not A.GWwarming so I guess global cooling will soon be blamed on A. activity along with hurricanes and droughts.

And in a year when hurricanes and other forms of extreme weather hammered the U.S., the networks hardly ever mentioned climate change in their coverage of those disasters.

A particularly severe hurricane season is also likely to have contributed to the drought: hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean draw moisture out of the Amazon when they form.

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.

Though these statistical predictions can not portend when any of the storms will form or where they will go, Klotzbach, Gray and colleagues calculate an 81 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast in 2006.

These are some of the basic forces at work when a low - pressure center forms in the atmosphere — a center that may turn into what people in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Caribbean regions call a hurricane.

«When you average over the long - term, there is a clear link between the number of hurricanes that form at sea and those that hit US,» he told New Scientist.

Weather apps like Storm Shield, which is capable of saving multiple locations, can also come in handy if and when a tropical storm or hurricane forms.