Sentences with phrase «most powerful hurricanes»

In 2005, Hurricane Wilma was one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the area, with the eye of the storm going directly over the city.

For instance, how will hurricanes change in a warming world (the most powerful hurricanes are becoming even more powerful, but the change in frequency is not known) is still an open question.

Less than ten days after he closed on his new property Hurricane Gilbert, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded, struck and tourism ground to a halt for the next two years.

Warmer air can carry more moisture, which can lead to more extreme rainfall events, and warmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurricanes.

Corral says that the finding hints that rising temperatures due to climate change will bring more of the most powerful hurricanes, but cautions it is difficult to say for sure.

The foundation and the team from the Sandals Resorts - owned and - operated Beaches Turks & Caicos partnered with the Salvation Army and the Red Cross to deliver desperately needed food to victims of one of the most powerful hurricanes in history.

That would make it one of the most powerful hurricanes to land in the state.

Irma is the most powerful hurricane ever formed on the Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center, bringing with it a potential economic damage of up to $ 250 billion.

The most powerful Hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years has devastated much of the coast, and the historic flooding is now causing havoc in the energy markets.

Harvey, which came ashore on August 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, has killed an estimated 50 people, displaced more than 1 million and damaged some 200,000 homes in a path of destruction stretching for more than 300 miles.

Sandy may not have been the most powerful hurricane to make landfall, but it is likely to be the most damaging ever

Low air pressure in the core — a measure of storm strength — bottomed out at 879 millibars, making Patricia, officially, the most powerful hurricane ever measured in the western hemisphere.

Hurricane Irma: Sand heaped on St Maarten airport... — Dramatic aerial pictures show sand heaped up at the end of St Maarten's Princess Juliana airport which has been ravaged by the most powerful hurricane ever recorded...

Odile was the most powerful hurricane to ever make landfall in Baja, and the most...

Odile was the most powerful hurricane to ever make landfall in Baja, and the most powerful to affect La...

«We in Antigua have weathered the most powerful hurricane ever to storm its way through the Caribbean.

1938 HURRICANE The most powerful hurricane known to have made landfall nearby — a category 3 hurricane — occurred in 1938.

As I write this Rita is about to pass over the loop current, and has a chance of becoming the most powerful hurricane on record and, maybe, just barely a nominal Cat 6.

Not exact matches

Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years, swallowing houses, flooding neighborhoods and leaving millions without power.

At one point, the hurricane was so strong in the Caribbean that it was identified as a Category 5, breaking the record for the most powerful storm ever detected in the open Atlantic.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind at least 21 deaths and a swath of destruction.

The NHC said Irma ranked as one of the five most powerful Atlantic hurricanes during the past 80 years and the strongest Atlantic basin storm ever outside the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, churned across northern Caribbean islands on Wednesday with a catastrophic mix of fierce winds, surf and rain, en route to a possible Florida landfall at the weekend.

Just as southern Texas began to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, Florida and the Caribbean soon endured Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.

Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years — swallowing houses, flooding neighborhoods and leaving millions without power.

Haiti did not take a direct hit from Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, but it unleashed rains that washed away fields of rice and plantains in coastal areas.

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Irma made landfall Sept. 6 on the island of Barbuda as a Category 5 storm packing winds of up to 185 mph, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record and ultimately forcing the evacuation of the entire population of the island.

Maria hit Puerto Rico about two weeks after Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, killed more than 80 people in the Caribbean and the United States.

Hurricane Sandy had an asymmetrical wind field, which means its most powerful winds were located in its left - rear quadrant, making it anything but normal.

Most sites had been hit by a powerful hurricane every 200 to 600 years, on average.

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexicon — Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms on record, struck Mexico's Pacific coast on Friday with destructive winds that tore down trees, moved cars and forced thousands of people to flee homes and beachfront resorts.

Matthew is one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history and briefly reached the top classification, Category 5, becoming the strongest hurricane in the region since Felix in 2007.

One of the world's most powerful radio telescopes is back online months after sustaining hurricane damage.

On October 30, 1991, a dying hurricane off the east coast of the U.S. collided with two other weather systems, resulting in «The Perfect Storm» — the most powerful storm in recorded history.

«The Jeep Hurricane is the most maneuverable, most capable, and most powerful 4x4 ever built,» said Trevor Creed, senior vice president of the Chrysler Group design department.

Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ever recorded, the most devastating hurricane in two hundred years, the hottest European summer on record, and one of the worst storm seasons ever experienced in Florida.

Now, with Hurricane Matthew, one of the most powerful storms to threaten the Southeast coast in more than a decade, and causing mass destruction in Haiti, Animal League America's Emergency Rescue Team is fully prepared to do everything in our power to provide shelter, food, medical treatment, and any other essential services to keep animals safe in the affected areas.

In 2014 Hurricane Odile rewrote the record books, having become the most powerful tropical cyclone to ever make landfall on the Baja California peninsula.

My guess is that Katrina and Andrew were the most powerful, combined wind speed and size, hurricanes to hit the U.S. of the last three centuries, or longer.

In the fall of 1998, Hurricane Mitch — one of the most powerful storms ever to come out of the Atlantic, with winds approaching 200 miles per hour — hit the east coast of Central America.

The most powerful storm to ever hit Cape Cod in recent history was Hurricane Bob in 1991, a category 2 storm that was one of the costliest in New England history.

Scientists are using satellites to identify where increasing sea levels could result in the most destructive storm surge as hurricanes grow more powerful due to climate change.

Climate change didn't cause Hurricane Irma, the most powerful storm to form in the open Atlantic Ocean, but did make it much stronger, scientists in Germany and the U.K. said.

Harvey is also a powerful hurricane forming in one of the most hurricane - friendly regions of the world at the peak of hurricane season.

Nature's most powerful storms, hurricanes, are another matter.

One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent years is closing in on Haiti, bringing winds, rains and storm surges.

WASHINGTON (Aug. 28, 2017)-- As Hurricane Harvey, the most powerful tropical storm to make landfall in the continental United States in a dozen years, continues to lash...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — One of the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricanes of all time barreled through the Caribbean and made landfall on Wednesday, less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey first h...