Sentences with phrase «maintaining hurricane strength»

The National Hurricane Center's final 3 - day projected track for Hurricane Irene keeps the powerful storm centered on the populous metropolitan corridor from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., through New York City — showing the storm still maintaining hurricane strength as it approaches the New York coastline.

Not exact matches

Waters of at least 26 °C extend all the way to southern New Jersey, which will make it easier for Irene to maintain its strength much farther to the north than a hurricane usually can,» says Masters.

But as waters warm, Atlantic hurricanes appear to be growing more frequent, bigger, stronger and wetter, and they also seem to be maintaining their strength farther north along the U.S. coast, according to Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at MIT.