Sentences with phrase «in hurricane forecasting»

Chan and Au - Yeung say that their research shows the importance of including land - surface variation in hurricane forecasting in the future.

Even Bill Gray uses SST in his hurricane forecasts... - gavin]

The physical link between SST and precipitation for any individual hurricane is not controversial, it is routinely exploited in the hurricane forecast models used by the national hurricane center.

Not exact matches

American Airlines lowers its revenue forecast in the wake of Hurricane Irma, which hit its hub in Miami.

For instance, before the 2005 hurricane season, a Bermuda cat - bond hedge fund called Nephila found a team of oceanographers in Rhode Island called Accurate Environmental Forecasting, whose forecasts of hurricane seasons had been surprisingly good.

«Some strengthening is forecast during the next day or two, and Maria could regain major hurricane status by Thursday,» said the NHC in its latest advisory, which also called for «catastrophic flash flooding» in parts of Puerto Rico.

Meteorological Scientist Michael Ventrice of the Weather Channel is forecasting windspeeds of up to 180 mph, which he described as the «highest windspeed forecasts I've ever seen in my 10 yrs of Atlantic hurricane forecasting.»

These are the highest windspeed forecasts I've ever seen in my 10 yrs of Atlantic hurricane forecasting.

When hurricanes are forecast in the future, the hospitals will host platelet drives with local blood banks as the storms approach, Philpott said.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami has generated a forecast track for Hurricane Joaquin that closely follows the path Superstorm Sandy took, raising a New York City strike higher on the list of possibilities.

Six to 10 of those storms are likely to reach hurricane strength, the agency said in its initial forecast for the 2011 storm season, which begins June 1 and ends Nov. 1.

But she also warned that spending cuts enacted by Congress threaten NOAA's ability to produce detailed hurricane forecasts and track storms in the future.

Over the past two decades, forecasters have improved their ability to predict where hurricanes will go, but improvements in forecasting a hurricane's intensity have proved elusive.

Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.

And that means more numerous and stronger hurricanes in the foreseeable future, whether the forecast is from a computer model or a meteorologist's instincts.

But in the big picture, hurricane models adeptly forecasted Irma's ultimate path to the Florida Keys nearly a week before it arrived there, says Brian Tang, an atmospheric scientist at the University at Albany in New York.

Others, such as a new microsatellite system aiming to improve measurements of hurricane intensity and a highly anticipated new computer simulation that forecasts hurricane paths and intensities, are still in the calibration phase.

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.

Researchers still don't fully understand the small but important shifts in storm dynamics that trigger a tornado or hurricane, for instance, and they can't forecast a hurricane's intensity.

The advent of Doppler radar in the 1950s gave meteorologists new powers to «read» the air and transformed how they forecast tornadoes and hurricanes.

He's now one of the leading experts in forecasting the Atlantic hurricane season.

«We believe this first study of rogue waves occurring over space and time during hurricanes will help improve real - time forecasting for shipping companies and other organizations that need to understand the risk of extreme events in the oceans.»

Their data will be used in computer models to improve weather forecasts, including hurricane tracks and intensities, severe thunderstorms and floods.

Tools for forecasting extreme weather have advanced in recent decades, but researchers and engineers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working to enhance radars, satellites and supercomputers to further lengthen warning times for tornadoes and thunderstorms and to better determine hurricane intensity and forecast floods.

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.

That program was established by NOAA in 2009, in part as a response to the pummeling the U.S. received from a number of hurricanes during the early years of that decade and the relative lack of progress made in improving forecasts up to that point.

In the 25 years since Hurricane Andrew devastated southeastern Florida, the 3 - day track forecast for hurricanes has improved by 65 percent, she said.

NOAA evaluates the accuracy of its seasonal forecasts each year, with the aim of seeing the number of storms fall in the given ranges at least 70 percent of the time, which they do consistently, Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, said.

NOAA will update its forecast in early August, just before the typical peak of the hurricane season.

El Niño is a key factor in making hurricane seasonal forecasts because the changes in atmospheric patterns over the tropical Pacific that it ushers in have a domino effect on patterns over the Atlantic, tending to suppress hurricane formation.

So he sexes up his narrative by presenting it as a battle between the «short, professorial looking» Emanuel, a «nuanced and sophisticated» man who talks in complete sentences, and the obdurate William Gray of Colorado State University, «a towering figure of American hurricane science,» who has for many years produced remarkably accurate forecasts of the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season and who repeatedly and loudly denies — in congressional hearings and everywhere else — that humans have any role in climate change.

Long - range hurricane forecasts are eagerly awaited in U.S. financial and energy markets, which quiver every time a storm bears down on the U.S. oil and gas - producing region of the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

There has been virtually no progress in hurricane intensity forecasting during the last quarter century.

More than 13 years in the making, the center is designed to be the U.S. government's nerve center for a range of activities, including predicting hurricane tracks and forecasting ocean currents.

The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP), which began in 2009, is an effort to improve the service's ability to forecast hurricane tracks and intensity further inHurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP), which began in 2009, is an effort to improve the service's ability to forecast hurricane tracks and intensity further inhurricane tracks and intensity further in advance.

Bell said that he and his office, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, have been fielding questions about the August lull in Atlantic hurricanes and whether it would cause his forecast team to soften its May and August outlooks, which concluded that the 2013 season had a 70 percent chance of being more active than normal.

In late May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast six to 11 named storms, including three to six hurricanes.

NOAA has issued its annual forecast for the hurricane season, along with its now - standard explanation that there is a natural cycle of multidecadal (40 - 60 year) length in the North Atlantic circulation (often referred to as the «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» — see Figure), that is varying the frequency of Atlantic tropical cyclones, and that the present high level of activity is due to a concurrent positive peak in this oscillation.

Those unexpectedly warm waters were what caused some of the seasonal forecasts to slightly underestimate the amount of storm activity in the Atlantic, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher and seasonal forecaster at Colorado State University, wrote at the Capital Weather Gang blog.

Having holidayed in Ricky's homeland of The Weather Channel and provide a national and local weather forecast for cities, as well as weather radar, report and hurricane coverage

A meteorologist with nearly 20 years of forecasting under her belt, she has been on a tornado chase in Oklahoma, on a flight into Hurricane Isabel, and to the 6,288 - foot summit of New Hampshire's Mount Washington in mid-winter.

The mass of cumulus clouds had increased in bulk more rapidly than any spawning storm she could remember in her eighteen years monitoring and forecasting tropical hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean with the National Underwater and Marine Agency Hurricane Center.

Be prepared for one category higher than the one being forecast, because hurricanes often increase in strength just before making landfall.

We have all heard of the yearly hurricane forecasts made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, now the Companion Animal Parasite Council is predicting that in 2016 the spread of vector - borne disease agents transmitted by ticks and mosquitoes will continue to promulgate and create a year - round menace to both pets and pet owners.

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If a hurricane is active nearby conditions worsen and can be dangerous, so be sure to check the weather forecast before you book a last - minute holiday to the Riviera Maya in the wet season.

In fact, with a very uncertain forecast for Hurricane Hermine we cancelled all of our Labor Day weekend surf lessons.

And hurricane forecasting is very good in the region and the fall off in tourist traffic has been minimal,» he reiterated.

Using «weather» (hurricane season forecasts, for example) to demonstrate «climate change» can backfire, and I believe it has in this specific instance.