Sentences with phrase «kilometers per hour as»

Outside, in exposed parts of the city, winds were gusting at up to 160 kilometers per hour as the storm made landfall.

The panels did not require heavy racks that anchored deep in the roof for support but rather lay flat and spaced out to allow wind to flow through them, allowing them to withstand gusts up to 210 kilometers per hour as demonstrated during a test installation in Florida that survived a tropical storm.

Not exact matches

«If you can move people from city to city at 1,200 (745 miles per hour) to 1,300 kilometers per hour, you have a system that can reshape society,» he explained, suggesting that as distances shrink, economic productivity could increase as traffic disappears.

Whether it's reported in knots, miles or kilometers per hour, we can measure the wind as it is happening and whether or not it is windy at any given location and time is not as questionable as the existence of an all - powerful creator.

Humans and cheetahs are a case in point: Although the two humans included in the team's study weighed in at 70 kilograms and had an average top speed of about 41 kilometers per hour, the heftiest cheetah weighed about 5 kilograms less but ran nearly three times as fast.

One previous study of a single footprint of a large tyrannosaur suggests that the beast could have been traveling as fast as 11 kilometers per hour (6.8 miles per hour), says Eric Snively, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

As a result of the flyby, the velocity change to the spacecraft was 8,451 miles per hour (3.778 kilometers per second).

That's when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with the two - ton, bus - size spacecraft as it plunges into the giant planet's turbulent atmosphere at more than 122,000 kilometers per hour.

But how do the birds track these familiar sites hundreds of meters below as they zip by at 65 kilometers per hour?

With trains allowed to run in excess of 320 kilometers per hour on some stretches, state officials estimate a trip between Los Angeles and San Francisco could take as little as two and a half hours.

Over the last decade, the solar plasma around Voyager 1 has thinned as the spacecraft hurtles toward the edge of the bubble at more than 60,000 kilometers per hour.

Wind, for instance, is a vectorial quantity, because at any given location it has a direction (such as northeast) and a magnitude (say, 45 kilometers per hour).

His team calculated that the forces that fractured Lucy's upper arm were equal to a fall from a height of about 13.7 meters — as high as a four - story building or the top of a tall tree, such as a mature acacia tree — at a velocity of about 59 kilometers per hour.

The heavy bat practice group averaged 77.2 kilometers per hour with their real swings — not as quick as the other two groups.

Two upgrades and 26 years later, Hubble can now capture the entirety of the bubble in stunning clarity as it expands into space at nearly 99,800 kilometers per hour.

At the more moderate pace of 5.5 kilometers per hour, a 29 - kilogram load can generate about 4 watts, more than enough to operate a number of small portable devices at once, such as a cell phone, handheld GPS, PDA, and even night vision goggles, Rome and colleagues report 9 September in Science.

Hummingbirds are the fighter pilots of the avian world, diving and weaving at speeds of up to 55 kilometers per hour — then turning on a dime to hover midair, wings frantically beating, as they refuel on nectar.

As the spacecraft raced toward this remote outpost at roughly 50,000 kilometers per hour, one thing became abundantly clear: People still love Pluto.

Frequent cell phone users, for example, zoomed along about 4.4 kilometers per hour faster on average and changed lanes twice as often, compared with rare users.

The same line of storms produced a 135 kilometer (84 mile) per hour wind gust as the storm squall blew through town.

The water races away at speeds up to 800 kilometers (500 miles) per hour, or as fast as a jet plane.

Heading a soccer ball doesn't usually cause a concussion, even though the ball may move as fast as 80 kilometers (50 miles) per hour, Michael Lipton told Science News.

As of Nov. 20, «Oumuamua is travelling about 85,700 miles per hour (38.3 kilometers per second) relative to the Sun.

While originally classified as a comet, observations from ESO and elsewhere revealed no signs of cometary activity after it slingshotted past the Sun on Sept. 9 at a blistering speed of 196,000 miles per hour (87.3 kilometers per second).

As a friendly reminder, the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk not only comes loaded with a 707 - hp engine, but is also able to sprint to 60 miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour) in just 3.5 seconds, continuing on to a quarter mile of 11.6 seconds, and a top speed of 180 mph (289 kmh).

If the sustained wind speed around the disturbance increases to between 37 and 63 kilometers per hour (23 to 39 miles per hour), the storm becomes classified as a tropical depression.

Tropical low pressure systems are classified as hurricanes when their pressure is 980 millibars or lower, and sustained wind speeds are greater than 118 kilometers per hour.

The Louisiana storm didn't meet the criteria of a tropical depression as defined by the National Hurricane Center: a tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind speed is 38 miles per hour (62 kilometers per hour) or less.

Although Camille's maximum wind speed (more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) per hour) far exceeded Katrina's (130 miles (209 kilometers) per hour), Katrina's size allowed the storm to push 4 times as much water toward the shore.

as defined by the National Hurricane Center: a tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind speed is 38 miles per hour (62 kilometers per hour) or less.

A spicule is like a pipe as wide as a state and as long as the Earth, filled with hot gas moving 50,000 kilometers per hour.

The charger begins working at a speed of about six kilometers per hour, and can charge as effectively as an electricity - based charger, Nokia said, when the cyclist reaches about 12 kilometers per hour.

This storm had winds close to 195 miles per hour (315 kilometers per hour) as it approached Guiuan on the Philippine island of Samar.

More recently in October of 2015, Hurricane Patricia became one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the Western Hemisphere as sustained winds reached nearly 200 miles per hour (320 kilometers per hour) off Mexico's west coast.

The International Space Station is whizzing around the Earth at a speed of approximately 17,200 miles per hour (27,600 kilometers per hour) and, as a result, astronauts on board experience 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets per day as their travel speed zips them around the globe once every 90 minutes or so.