Sentences with word «microburst»

These «microbursts of activity,» as the researchers called them, were also more valuable than a single 30 - minute walking break.

As part of this past weekend's wild weather, more damage was reported Monday in Sun City and in the Temecula Valley Wine Country, with microbursts the likely culprit in both cases.

The fight over the so - called Faso - Collins amendment in the health care reform measures has naturally created its own schisms in New York, a political microburst that has mostly divided Republicans from Democrats, and upstate from downstate.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that two tornadoes and two microbursts touched down in the Hudson Valley during the intense storm system that moved through the area Tuesday and resulted in the deaths of an 11 - year - old girl in Orange County, 80 - year - old woman in Rockland County as well as two adults in Fairfield County.

What he feels is that when you are suppressing things, things leak out in microbursts.

The second microburst, with winds gusting to 80 miles per hour, was confirmed to have cut a path of destruction and downed trees for more than 250 yards in North Salem, near the Putnam border.

Even though microbursts are commonly not as destructive as tornados, they can still produce wind speed well over 100 miles per hour.

Using a computer model that simulates Mars» atmospheric conditions, Spiga and his colleagues discovered that the cooling of the air at night around icy clouds on Mars can generate strong enough convection currents to trigger microbursts — a weather phenomenon often described as the opposite of tornadoes.

«Microbursts need not be solely physical,» they observed.

Downdraft microbursts spawned gusts of more than 80 miles per hour.

Sometimes those events are known as «rain bombs» or «wet microbursts».

Chances are, if you have coverage against tornado damage, you are also covered against microbursts.

But, whereas a tornado has circular winds, microbursts travel in a straight line.

The amendment has naturally created its own schisms in New York, a political microburst that has mostly divided Republicans from Democrats, and upstate from downstate.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that two tornadoes and two microbursts touched down in the Hudson Valley during the intense storm system that moved...

Accompanying the thunderstorms of about a week ago, three microbursts (in Sun City, Northeast Temecula and in the Temecula Valley Wine Country) were among wild weather reported in Western Riversi...

A microburst causes straight - line winds whose destructive effects can be mistaken for a tornado.

Various reports of tornadoes have not been confirmed, but experts do agree that a microburst struck Connecticut Street on Buffalo's West Side, causing significant damage to four homes and displacing a number of residents.

Two microbursts were also confirmed with the first also located in Putnam, in the Cherry Hill area near Kent.

The microburst had maximum wind speeds of 80 to 90 miles per hour impacted a swath three miles wide and four miles long in the area.

A microburst can also significantly increase the amount of rainfall or snowfall as the downdraft forces content from clouds to descend rapidly.

Similar to a tornado, a microburst can generate extremely strong vertical wind.

Instead of an updraft like a tornado, a microburst is characterized by a rapid downdraft.

The microbursts can then cause the Martian clouds to rapidly dump their content, creating local snowstorms.

Read here about the Internet, microbursts, Web browsers, extrasolar planets, and more... a panoply of discoveries and innovations that began with NSF support.

Microbursts of exercise help improve efficiency, focus, mental clarity and help better regulate blood glucose and insulin levels.

Included in these 3 - part cards are thunderstorms, tsunami, microbursts, sand and water spouts, tornadoes, hurricanes, dust storms, heat wave and blizzard.

It was impossible to predict if efforts to advance school choice would be buried in a massive dust storm brought on by the opposition and public education unions, or if we would get thwarted by a microburst of unpredictable legislators.

The group has just finished installing the largest new shade area, measuring 35 feet square, to replace the loss of a 40 - year - old tree felled by a microburst storm.

The type of storm last weekend — the microburst, from what I read — is harder to predict.

This rainfall appears to be a bit more unusual as it seems to have been a microburst of rainfall.

Microbursts, rain shafts, vigorous convective cells.

Then, there are «microbursts.»

Microbursts are smaller than 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) in size.

In 1991, a microburst hit Stratham, killing five people and injuring eleven.

A microburst is similar to a tornado in that it produced very strong and damaging winds.

Some microbursts contain winds reaching 175 mph, which can destroy buildings and down large trees.