Sentences with phrase «more hurricane force»

Now, we face the threat of 2 more hurricane force storms landing in our area in less than 1 week, and you dare to bring election politics into this discussion!

Not exact matches

[39] October 15, 1954 - Hurricane Hazel causes hurricane force winds and small portions with 6 inches (150 mm) or moreHurricane Hazel causes hurricane force winds and small portions with 6 inches (150 mm) or morehurricane force winds and small portions with 6 inches (150 mm) or more of rain.

It is not likely that Satan can control the weather, or cause earthquakes, hurricanes, and famines, but Satan certainly knows more about the conditions and requirements for such natural disasters to occur, and does what he can to tempt mankind and encourage natural forces toward these destructive storms and natural disasters that are often unleashed upon us.

Floodwaters are expected to rise still further in the inundated Texan city of Houston, where more than 30,000 people have been forced from their homes in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

More images of Typhoon Vamei Brief report on Vamei from the Malaysian Meteorological Service Primer on hurricanes and the Coriolis force

But I was relying on a Scott Tent, designed by its famous namesake more than a hundred years ago and little changed since, a testament to its ability to withstand hurricane - force winds not uncommon on the continent.

Tropical Cyclone Chapala is the first hurricane - force tropical cyclone in more than 30 years to land in Yemen, CNN reports.

If, in July, reform gets kicked down the road yet again, it might only take one expensive hurricane to force Congress to decide whether they must increase the NFIP's borrowing limit beyond $ 30.4 billion or forgive even more debt, Moore says.

By Marie - Louise Gumuchian and Anthony Deutsch LONDON / AMSTERDAM (Reuters)- Hurricane strength winds battered northern Europe on Monday, killing more than a dozen people, cutting power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and train journeys.

The arrival of hurricane season on June 1 has forced BP to develop a more flexible oil collection system, Kent Wells, a BP senior vice president for exploration and production, said Monday at a press briefing.

The task force also recommends that city, county and state governments seriously consider abandoning whole areas of the coast altogether, to allow vegetation to gradually migrate away from the shoreline and give nature a chance to build more natural barriers to rising seas, hurricanes and severe storms known to hit the Northeast frequently.

But on Sept. 11, Hurricane Irma sent floodwaters rushing into 500 homes and forced more than 200 people to evacuate.

That unusual predicament is chalked up to hurricane season flooding, but there are more sinister forces at work.

We're supposed to get more than two feet of snow... winds at or approaching hurricane force.

First Coast No More Homeless Pets and national leader Best Friends Animal Society are joining forces to support animal welfare groups across Florida in the wake of Hurricane Irma's devastation.

Last week, a team of 19 top climate scientists from government labs in the United States and Europe reported that the buildup of human - induced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appeared to be the primary driving force behind warmer oceans that fuel more powerful hurricanes.

I think he said that hurricanes pick up more force from warm water, and as far as I know, that's a scientific fact, correct me if I'm wrong.

A hurricane that strikes Haiti and Florida with the same force is virtually guaranteed to hurt Haitians more, because Haiti has fewer resources to protect its citizens against hurricanes.

-- Wind shear: The less the vertical wind shear — the difference in the direction and force of the winds at the surface compared to several miles into the air — the more powerful the hurricane can become.The influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Wind shear: The less the vertical wind shear — the difference in the direction and force of the winds at the surface compared to several miles into the air — the more powerful the hurricane can become.

However, recent observations of the rate and severity of physical and ecological responses to escalating radiative forcing — melting glaciers and ice sheets resulting in sea level rise and major changes in weather patterns, prolonged droughts, more frequent hurricanes and storms, and so on — are surprising even top climate experts, and raising awareness that, as a nation, we are dangerously unprepared for the inevitable consequences.

ST. PETERSBURG FL September 5, 2017 — Hurricane Harvey forced more travelers to cancel their trips than any other single event this year, according to claims data from travel insurance comparison site, Squaremouth.