Sentences with phrase «of storm strength»

Last thought for a while — is the observed increase in the height of the troposphere a measure of storm strength?

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center in May projected between a dozen and 16 named storms, including 2 to 5 major hurricanes (those above Category 3 on the Saffir - Simpson scale of storm strength).

Wind speed is a useful measure of storm strength (cat 1 - 5, (E) F scale...), and pressure drop also (~ wind speed * distance scale ~ speed * sqrt (area) if not too elongated)-- although (I think) potential energy ~ area * (change in p ^ 2) and kinetic energy ~ area * speed ^ 2 (assumes same vertical extent, density...)

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.

In the meantime, keep a weather eye on the Web site of the National Hurricane Center and Kerry Emanuel's page at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which collects a variety of forecasts of storm strengths and tracks.

Not exact matches

At the center of the study is a new map of the hazards posed by geomagnetic storms of a strength that scientists expect to occur every 100 years — five times more frequently than «500 - year» storms like the Carrington Event.

The second maximum - strength storm to hit the Caribbean this month, Maria battered the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix on Wednesday before heading toward Puerto Rico, where it was set to be the strongest storm to hit the island in about 90 years.

After all, when a storm is overhead, it is not to the canned goods we bought that our minds turn, but to the strength of our shaking walls — to the structures that surround us everyday.

Estimates for damages caused by Hurricane Harvey are climbing with the storm poised to regain strength in the Gulf of Mexico before crashing back on land.

The idea is that hundreds of thousands of these devices in hurricane - prone regions of the world would cool waters enough to make a measurable reduction in the strength of storms.

The forecasting service is expecting at least four more named storms, two of which may be hurricane strength, and at least one of which may be a major hurricane.

Named National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year in 2014, Galpin has taken the world by storm founding the nonprofit Mountain2Mountain, the activist organization Combat Apathy and the Afghan cycling program Strength in Numbers.

Yet if Luther was right and humanity can not storm heaven with its understanding and strength, then doesn't the mystery of glorious light — «the Holy Ghost has called me by the Gospel and illuminated me with His gifts» — take us into a predestinarian darkness?

There is anguish and despair, but through it all hope and strength, and such is not born of agnosticism but of an inner experience of peace and power, in spite of the storm.

Moyes had pretty much a full strength team to pick from in the second half of last season and it was a period where Everton really did come into their own, storming up the table into 8th position, after a dreadful first half to the season, with some outstanding results over Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United en route to a scintillating end to the season with an unbeaten streak of eleven matches.

David Wheater proved no match for the strength of Laurent Depoitre as the big Belgian stormed his way to the by - line whilst shrugging off the home Skipper's challenge, but the end product eluded Laurent as the pull - back towards the arriving Abdelhamid Sabiri lacked power and was efficiently diverted away for a corner.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Isaac neared hurricane strength last night, closing on the Gulf Coast with a projected landfall a day short of the seventh anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina.

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

The fairness of mutuality and the inherent strength of our business models position us as the providers best placed to weather this storm.

Storm tracks, the strength and frequency of large climate patterns such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation — greenhouse gases can affect them all, and there just isn't a lot of data yet, he adds.

After examining 35 years of weather data, researchers spotted a decline in the strength of summer storms that carry cool, moist air across the northern continents.

Six to 10 of those storms are likely to reach hurricane strength, the agency said in its initial forecast for the 2011 storm season, which begins June 1 and ends Nov. 1.

Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.

A summary of the studies, released last month, warns of a nonlinear relationship between the strength of future storms and potential losses, which stand to grow even if the worst predictions about hurricanes aren't realized.

But a reduction in the number and intensity of large hurricanes driving ocean waters on shore — such as this month's Hurricane Joaquin, seen, which reached category 4 strength — may also play a role by cooling sea - surface temperatures that fuel the growth of these monster storms, the team notes.

So the occasional Northeast Pacific hurricane that does track back toward the U.S. encounters the cooler waters of the Pacific, which can quickly reduce the storm's strength.»

As steel plates corrode and lose their strength they reach the point where the next storm will trigger a catastrophic release of oil.

The US NOAA Space Weather Prediction Centre in Boulder, Colorado, says: «Although the magnetic field strength of this CME has been fairly high, it hasn't been of the orientation needed to cause strong geomagnetic storming.»

The success of the description of the aurora according to the historical documents allowed the researchers to estimate the strength of the magnetic storm that caused the September 1770 aurora.

Snow forecasts are dependent upon the strength and track of winter storms, which are generally not predictable more than a week in advance.

A new study has found that turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind speeds.

Pollution from China's coal - burning power plants has increased the strength of storms in the Pacific Northwest by 10 percent over the last three decades

The team ran simulations to gauge the effect of midair collisions on a storm's strength, which they measure as flux, the number of particles passing through a given volume of air in a given amount of time.

He thinks previous models that did not take midair collision into account have been underestimating the strength of sandstorms, making their prediction of a storm's effects on the landscape inaccurate.

Those percentages translate to the ranges of numbers of storms expected at different strengths.

It's these lower wind speeds, around hurricane strength, that are most common — even on the edges of stronger storms — according to Grimes.

There is, however, limited evidence from a relatively short time period that storm strength is increasing, such as the Emanuel (2005) «power dissipation index» of hurricane intensity.

That translates to more than 10 mile per hour increase in the strength of these very strong sort of category 4 category 5 storms.»

The maps are the result of years of experience and recent polling that found most Americans living on vulnerable coastlines paid too much attention to hurricane wind strength and not enough to storm surge before deciding whether to evacuate ahead of a storm, Rhome said during an interview at this week's National Hurricane Conference in Orlando.

The heat, in turn, would widen the eye of the storm and decrease the strength of its winds.

And scientists may be better able to forecast a storm's effects by comparing its projected path and strength with those of hurricanes that previously struck the coast.

Some of the most severe effects will likely be in the form of tropical storms, he says, which are not only caused by El Niño but exacerbated by its strength.

Stout - hearted storm chasers race to put themselves right in the path of danger, both for the sheer thrill of it and to gather information that will clarify how tornadoes form, gather strength and dissipate.

The cyclone that brought about the devastating winds that battered the UK in the great storm of October 1987 was exceptional in both its strength and path across the south of the country.

They point to direct effects resulting from rising temperatures and changes in the frequency and strength of storms, floods, droughts, and heat - waves — as well as to less direct impacts, such as changes in crop yields, the burden and distribution of infectious disease, and climate - induced population displacement and violent conflict.

But, how strong is the connection between climate change and the strength of individual storms like Haiyan or Hurricane Sandy?

Forecasters combine the strength of a storm and its duration into a measure called Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE, which can be used to gauge the impact of a single storm or a season's worth of them.

While scientists are largely left to speculate about the strength of Mesozoic Era storms, geologists have discovered evidence of Iron Age hurricanes in layers of ground sediment.

While every storm has its own characteristics and quirks, this one being particularly unusual, a warming global ocean means we're likely to see more storms of this strength in future.

«A storm like that would produce a radio signal approaching one per cent the strength of the signal that was observed in 2009 on the exoplanet HAT - P - 11b.»