Sentences with phrase «larger than storm»

Not exact matches

The storm's exact path once it makes landfall is still unknown but flight cancellations due to Irma, currently at more than 4,000, will likely swell if the storm hits the much larger Atlanta hub.

On July 10, Juno returned one of the closest - ever views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot — a larger - than - Earth storm that is actually shrinking.

If a large unexpected expense is torrential downpour, than an artist emergency fund is the trusty umbrella to help you weather the storm.

And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 40 inches (100 centimeters) of rain on cities, including dangerously flood - prone Houston, the nation's fourth - largest.

To be specific, a military large enough to execute the current U.S. strategy and also to conduct numerous long - term humanitarian interventions would have to be considerably larger and better funded than the one we have now (our present army, for example, is only two - thirds the size it was during the Desert Storm offensive).

Storm Chips comes in a 10 - ounce bag, larger than the traditional 6 ounce, making it the perfect size to last through a rough winter weekend.

During the height of the storm, he said, average response times were as long as 55 minutes, a result in large part of unplowed streets causing more than 100 ambulances to get stuck in snow

Now, first - of - their - kind field tests in the western Sahara reveal that the fields — generated when windblown sand grains rub together — loft desert dust much more effectively than previously recognized, creating larger and longer lasting storms than wind alone.

Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling anticyclonic storm feature larger than Earth — has shrunken to the smallest size ever measured.

If the variations are caused by massive storms similar to those that occasionally rage on Jupiter and Saturn, then the storms are larger than any yet discovered on a planet.

«The magnetic storm on 17 September 1770 was comparable with or slightly larger than the September 1859 magnetic storm that occurred under the influence of the Carrington solar flare.

And by 2070, Storm van Leeuwen found, the amount of energy it takes to mine, mill, enrich and fabricate one metric ton of uranium fuel may be larger than 160 terajoules — the amount of energy one can generate from it.

Volcanic eruptions could drive furious lightning storms on Kepler - 10b, a volcanic exoplanet not much larger than Earth

Nearly four times larger than the state of Texas, the swirling cyclonic system, seen in two sets of Hubble Space Telescope images released today, dwarfs any storm previously observed on Mars.

The team simulated 549 different types of storms, ranging from small ones to hurricanes larger than Superstorm Sandy, and estimated the average resulting annual expected flood losses.

We found that brown dwarfs are similar to the gas giants in the Solar System (in that they have zonal circulation), but that they are more like Neptune and less like Jupiter (their brightness variations are driven by large - scale waves in zones rather than Great Red Spot - like storms as in Jupiter).

«Here's the largest and most fierce storm in the entire solar system and it's lasted hundreds of years, so that's a lot different than anything else we've ever studied.

The storm alone is actually larger than the planet Earth, or the planet Mercury.

This storm is large enough to hold more than two Earths, and it has been visible from Earth for more than 300 years.

Summary: Perhaps now more than ever, Cyberbullying is showing up as a large red storm front on our society's proverbial radar.

Today we received an email from Mike on the CrackBerry Podcast hotline (podcast @ crackberry.com) in New Jersey asking why there are different web browsers on his new BlackBerry Storm, and why he can not download files larger than 5 Mb.

While the new BlackBerry Bold is slightly larger than I imagined, the Storm is smaller than I expected, and fits comfortably into my pocket.

Interest rates in these countries are at least 4 % higher than in the U.S. or Europe and the credit quality of most of these countries is investment grade, plus the holdings of the larger ETFs are so widely distributed that unless one had a major financial crisis, similar to the Asian crisis in 1995 or the financial meltdown in 2008, one's investment should weather most isolated storms.

According to AccuWeather, a blizzard is a dangerous winter storm that has large amounts of snow, winds in excess of 35 mph, and visibility less than 1/4 mile.

The Art Tart took the Banksy Cans Festival by storm with her shocking stencil paintings and a performance which was definitely one to remember... Through her use of various costumes to create the ultimate tarty look with high heels, big red lips, leopard stockings, French knickers and open shirt, she in fact reveals a larger than life character — which, coupled with a few spray cans, takes street art to a whole new level.

But this human adaptation time scale may be longer than the time over which climate change affects storms, so that comparatively small changes in the frequency of generational events can have large social consequences.

However, in terms of predicting whether a hurricane will hit NOLA or Mobile AL, that is inherently uncertain more than few days out (predictability depending on the large scale circulation system and the strength of the storm).

The little ice age is described as a time not of radically colder temperatures than today, but periodic, large climate swings and storms, contrasting with the stability of medieval times.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

If they aren't allowing for a freak event that could reasonable occur within a century, large storm, and highest tide than 1 meter from sea level rise isn't enough.

The opinion piece asserted, «Harvey was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human - caused warming, which means stronger winds, more wind damage and a larger storm surge.»

Here we report that the upper atmosphere above Jupiter's Great Red Spot — the largest storm in the Solar System — is hundreds of degrees hotter than anywhere else on the planet.

In the large area around Vanuatu the sea surface temperatures were one to two degrees Celsius above normal... So the atmosphere all around there has some 10 to 20 % more moisture in it than a comparable storm in the 1970s would have had.

The Dust Bowl drought was atypical for a North American drought in many ways, most notably the fact that it was centered over the Great Plains rather than in the southwest and was accompanied by large scale dust storms that were unprecedented in the historical record.

To estimate the trend in landfalling storm counts, we count the number of large surge events greater than 10 units in 1 y, which is roughly equivalent to hurricane categories 0 — 5.

Another is, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is increasing because the atmosphere is getting warmer, and therefore the amount of water being dumped during these storms is larger because of the human, global - made — global warming, human - made global warming, which is now more than 1 degree Celsius.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

Higher - than - normal Atlantic surface waters off the East Coast acted to fuel the storm, and hence, larger - than - ever East Coast snowstorms are now becoming the norm.

Because Meranti is so large, its central pressure is even lower than would be the case for a smaller storm that had the same peak winds.

Plotting the number of Sudden Storm Commencements since 1868 you get: At times, odd cycles have been larger than even cycles, but that does not hold generally, e.g. cycle 22.

Kevin Trenberth, a senior researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, told Mashable that the larger than normal contrast between the cold continent and mild ocean waters is adding fuel to storms like this one.

At 600ppm, global average temperature rise could be in the range of 3 - 4Â °C — which means greater sea level rise than predicted, glaciers melting and constraining water supply throughout large areas of Asia, agriculture being severely stressed in many places, greater storm intensity, reduced biodiversity, the end of coral reefs.

Re-thinking the moist greenhouse limit for the inner edge of the habitable zone: The traditional view of the inner edge of the habitable zone has been that once a planet receives a stellar flux slightly greater than Earth does, convective storms inject large amounts of water vapor into the stratosphere, eventually leading to loss of the oceans.

The mid-latitude cyclones that form as wave like patterns and migrate along the Polar Front, are major storm systems that occur more frequently and can impact much larger areas than any other severe weather system.

Unless large and damaging storms continue, more than usual.

The 5th (Opelika) sits in east - central Alabama, and while not imminently threatened by large storms that may blow in off the Gulf of Mexico, its costs are high due in part to property crime rates which are more than double the US average.

About... Further inland than its much larger neighbor Miami to the south, the city of Pembroke Pines has seen extensive growth as Floridians seek shelter from the storm.

The city's largest employer, Homestead Air Force Base, was destroyed in the storm; rather than rebuild it, the federal government decided to include the facility in its base closures.