Sentences with phrase «new hurricane forecast»

Not exact matches

The storm is forecast to be at Category 1 hurricane strength when it makes landfall tonight just south of New Orleans.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami has generated a forecast track for Hurricane Joaquin that closely follows the path Superstorm Sandy took, raising a New York City strike higher on the list of possibilities.

The 2017 hurricane season has highlighted the critical need to communicate a storm's impact path and intensity accurately, but new research from the University of Utah shows significant misunderstandings of the two most commonly used storm forecast visualization methods.

But in the big picture, hurricane models adeptly forecasted Irma's ultimate path to the Florida Keys nearly a week before it arrived there, says Brian Tang, an atmospheric scientist at the University at Albany in New York.

Others, such as a new microsatellite system aiming to improve measurements of hurricane intensity and a highly anticipated new computer simulation that forecasts hurricane paths and intensities, are still in the calibration phase.

Powerful hurricanes such as Harvey, Irma and Maria are also providing a testing ground for new tools that scientists hope will save lives by improving forecasts in various ways, from narrowing a storm's future path to capturing swift changes in the intensity of storm winds.

The advent of Doppler radar in the 1950s gave meteorologists new powers to «read» the air and transformed how they forecast tornadoes and hurricanes.

A meteorologist with nearly 20 years of forecasting under her belt, she has been on a tornado chase in Oklahoma, on a flight into Hurricane Isabel, and to the 6,288 - foot summit of New Hampshire's Mount Washington in mid-winter.

It's important to note that most of the failures in protecting New Orleans and nearby communities from the ravages attending Hurricane Katrina had little to do with forecasting questions.

1:01 p.m. Various updates below With the tropical storm that will soon be Hurricane Isaac heading in the general direction of New Orleans seven years (possibly to the day) after Hurricane Katrina topped the flood protections there, I looked back at the archived track forecasts for the 2005 storm and posted the link on Twitter and Facebook.

With hurricane Arthur headlining the news as throwing a possible wet blanket on 4th of July fireworks shows along the Northeast coast and with a new record being set each passing day for the longest period between major (Category 3 or greater) hurricane landfalls anywhere in the U.S. (3,173 days and counting), we thought that now would be a good time to discuss a new paper which makes a tentative forecast as to what we can expect in terms of the number of Atlantic hurricanes in the near future (next 3 - 5 years).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York Press Office: [phone]; [email protected] New York, April 5, 2018 — Dr. Philip Klotzbach of Colorado State University (CSU), a non-resident scholar for the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.), released CSU's first extended range forecast for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season today...

Based on the increased risk of hurricane damages, we see CME's new futures and options contract to be a prominent instrument for mitigating risk» stated Dr. Thomas Nehrkorn, Director of Tropical Forecasting at AER.

Lexington, Massachusetts — May 31, 2007 — Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (AER) a leader in climate and weather forecasting, is pleased to introduce hCast - SR ™, a probabilistic hurricane tracking service for trading the new CME (NYSE, NASDAQ: CME) futures and options on futures contracts based on the Carvill Hurricane Index (CHI ™), in time for the 2007 Hurricanhurricane tracking service for trading the new CME (NYSE, NASDAQ: CME) futures and options on futures contracts based on the Carvill Hurricane Index (CHI ™), in time for the 2007 HurricanHurricane Index (CHI ™), in time for the 2007 HurricaneHurricane Season.

The Sarasota Herald - Tribune's investigative piece tells the story of how an entity that provides hurricane predictions to the insurance industry came up with a new approach to hurricane forecasting following an informal four - hour discussion involving four experts.

It remains to be seen how much of an improvement the new HWRF model will bring to this year's hurricane forecasts, but the bar has been set so low that any progress would be heralded as a breakthrough.

He has taught weather forecasting at the State University of New York at Brockport and served for four years with the Hurricane Hunters as a flight meteorologist for NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center in Miami, Florida.

By deriving detailed meaning and clarity from new instrument technologies, we have improved weather forecasting, severe storm tracking for hurricanes and understanding of the Earth's climate and advanced meteorological research.