Sentences with phrase «in hurricane tracks»

Not exact matches

Scientists have tried and failed to stop full - on hurricanes in their tracks.

As victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma, and of the Northwest wildfires, work to restore their upended lives, including, in some cases, the loss of their homes and worldly possessions, getting their personal finances back on track only lengthens what seems to be an insurmountable task list.

(Though keep in mind we've only been tracking hurricanes with satellites since the 1970s, so the early records likely aren't very comprehensive.)

Hurricane Edna made it impossible to race at Aqueduct last Saturday and affected two other tracks in the East.

As Hurricane Sandy heads steers toward New York, forecasters in the Buffalo Niagara region are continue to track the massive storm as it approaches the coastal regions.

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.

The National Hurricane Center model has the eye of Hurricane Sandy tracking across the Pennsylvania / New York border in a northerly direction in the 24 hours from 8 am Wednesday to 8 am Thursday.

NOAA would receive an additional $ 50 million for research weather supercomputing infrastructure and for improvement of satellite ground services used in hurricane intensity and track prediction.

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.

Some birds are especially adept: Scientists at the College of William & Mary Center for Conservation Biology tracked a migratory shorebird, a whimbrel, as it flew through Hurricane Irene in 2011.

Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.

About 8 years ago, geographer Kam - biu Liu of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge realized that finding such layers of storm - driven sand in old sediments offered a way to track hurricanes that came ashore thousands of years ago.

«The evidence seems strong» for a link between the NAO and preferred hurricane tracks, says climatologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

So climatologist James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee and his colleagues looked for ties between hurricane tracks and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a seesaw shift in atmospheric pressures over the ocean (Science, 12 February 1999, p. 948).

In the five simulations conducted by Lau and his colleagues at NASA Goddard, two hurricanes followed the same track as Sandy, hooking westward and merging with the mid-latitude storm as they hit the coast.

An increase in the width of the tropics could increase the area affected by tropical storms (hurricanes), or could change climatological tropical cyclone development regions and tracks.

In the Northeast Pacific, the same west - northwest track carries hurricanes farther offshore, well away from the U.S. West Coast.

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

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

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.

Irma is the second - strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, and the National Hurricane Center is warning that its projected track toward a U.S. landfall on Sunday is «potentially catastrophic.»

«Many possible tracks bring the worst of a large, powerful hurricane over or near the Keys and up the peninsula over the weekend,» he wrote in a Facebook message.

The station has also played a role in tracking major storms and hurricanes and «ISS in general has a unique vantage point for observing with both automated equipment and hands - on equipment including photos taken by the astronauts and we participate in disaster response networks using all these data available,» said Ochoa.

To date, the team has been able to make measurable improvements in predicting the track of a hurricane.

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.

In this article, we'll explore the lifecycle and anatomy of a hurricane, as well as the methods we use to classify and track these ultimate storm systems as they hurtle across the globe.

Atmospheric models predict this will quench energy from Atlantic hurricanes, potentially stopping them in their tracks.

But even after Irma completes its reign of terror, another hurricane (Jose) is picking up speed in the Atlantic, and there are fears that it will track a similar path to Irma, devastating already heavily damaged island nations.

However, I've been feeling off - track lately with the impact of Hurricane Sandy still fresh and palpable in and around New York City.

Twenty - five years later, the sons have grown up: Will (Toby Kebbell) is a meteorologist working for the National Weather Service, tracking hurricanes in an effort to find out how to stop them (good luck with that), and the inexplicably named Breeze (Ryan Kwanten) runs his late father's towing and repair company in the small Alabama town where he was raised.

On the Internet, you'll be deluged with hurricane - related sites; I've highlighted a few below in the Tracking Hurricanes on the Internet section.

In New York City, where $ 300 million in state aid is at stake this year, city officials say they feel confident that they will reach a deal before Cuomo's deadline, and union leaders say constructive discussions are back on track after a nearly monthlong hiatus following Hurricane SandIn New York City, where $ 300 million in state aid is at stake this year, city officials say they feel confident that they will reach a deal before Cuomo's deadline, and union leaders say constructive discussions are back on track after a nearly monthlong hiatus following Hurricane Sandin state aid is at stake this year, city officials say they feel confident that they will reach a deal before Cuomo's deadline, and union leaders say constructive discussions are back on track after a nearly monthlong hiatus following Hurricane Sandy.

Accustomed to being on the frontlines of breaking news such as Hurricane Katrina and the Washington area sniper shootings, Yolanda's Motor News segments tracks auto industry news, focusing on crash tests, safety ratings, new advances in technology and the latest from auto shows around the world.

As victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma, and of the Northwest wildfires, work to restore their upended lives, including, in some cases, the loss of their homes and worldly possessions, getting their personal finances back on track only lengthens what seems to be an insurmountable task list.

Though weather services track weather patterns that may result in hurricanes for some time, things can still happen quite suddenly.

Placing catnip in the center of the Catnip Hurricane ™ creates an aromatic effect while the balls move around the track.

99 % of all hurricanes in the Caribbean tend to track either well north of well south of the island.

The announcer in Hurricane is not as exciting as the original, and I think the tracks designs are a bit better in the original.

The expert difficulty tracks in Hydro Thunder Hurricane, it's the same thing.

Updated, Oct. 4, 7:28 a.m. The latest track projections for Hurricane Matthew have raised the odds of a landfall in the United States.

In a TV program on climate change, Jeff Donnelly, a geologist using seabed layers to track past hurricanes, takes the actor Ian Somerhalder into the «Bue Hole» formation in the BahamaIn a TV program on climate change, Jeff Donnelly, a geologist using seabed layers to track past hurricanes, takes the actor Ian Somerhalder into the «Bue Hole» formation in the Bahamain the Bahamas.

Some meteorologists foresee a track more like that of Hurricane Bob in 1991, which missed most of New York and dumped its rain on New England.

With the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy's coastal assault here, The New York Times and other media have run a batch of helpful articles tracking how coastal communities are, and are not, responding to the lessons from the extraordinary surge raised by that storm — a 1 - in -700-year event, by some calculations.

Updated As coastal communities from the Carolinas through New England track Tropical Storm Hermine, which struck Florida yesterday as that state's first hurricane since 2005 before weakening, it's worth looking back at the disastrous deluge in Louisiana for wider lessons.

There is no reason to believe that our method would not capture the salient features in basins besides the Atlantic, and this can be confirmed by any hurricane specialist including those who operationally apply the Dvorak technique and / or participate in constructing the best track.

Let me suggest a different possibility for why the algorithm finds bigger disparities everywhere except the ATL and EPAC: The Atlantic and E. Pacific best tracks are constructed by NHC forecasters who are the best trained hurricane forecasters in the world, and they stay at their jobs for decades.

I'm not sure I totally understand this post, but if the ocean has cooled slightly as part of natural fluctuation «noise,» and if last year's hurricane season (with Katrina, et al.) happened during this natural cooling fluctuation, and if the ocean is on a general track of getting warmer, then we probably have much much worse to expect in future hurricanes....

My recently deceased father - in - law, Katsuyuki «Vic» Ooyama (scroll down to page 5 for a short bio), was a meteorological scientist and developer of numerical computer models (some versions of which are still being used today) regarding the formation, development and tracking of hurricanes.

Notably, issues such as why a given hurricane stalled or took a particular track (problems in dynamics) could not reliably be attributed to anthropogenic climate change, unlike intensity (which is clearly related to the thermodynamic state of the atmosphere and oceans).

Here's the scene in the Miami forecasting center, which illustrates why the midpoint of hurricane forecast tracks is relatively meaningless: