Sentences with phrase «powerful storms»

For years, people inside and outside the scientific community have called for a category 6 to designate the most powerful storms, but not everyone agrees.

But it's impossible to know precisely how powerful the storm will be at that point, or where exactly it will land.

When powerful storms combine with increased sea level rise and intense coastal development, they provide the ingredients for massive destruction, loss of life and major economic losses.

This blocking high pressure system could contribute to powerful storm impacts in another way.

As time goes on, and the overall heat of our planet increases, the likelihood of more and more powerful storms increases as well.

They know, for instance, the risks of hurricanes and those of storm - surge damage from other powerful storms.

That means he's had a front - row seat to the effects of sea - level rise and the loss of coastal wetlands, dunes, and other natural barriers against powerful storms.

Previous research has also shown that warmer ocean surface temperatures fuel more powerful storms.

Even as warmer ocean temperatures provide more fuel for hurricanes, there are several factors that limit how powerful the storms can become.

NASA has released stunning new images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot that were captured earlier this week by the US space agency's Juno spacecraft and which provides an up - close look at what is believed to be the largest and most powerful storm system in the solar system.

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.

These solutions may buy the city decades of time, but they won't prepare it for 2 feet or more of sea - level rise, particularly when combined with the prospect of more powerful storm surges, according to Castro.

Damaged homes along the foreshore of Sydney's Collaroy Beach, hit by powerful storms in early June.

«Just as powerful storms here on Earth impact their environments, so too do the ones we see out in space,» Schlegel said.

In 2004 it became much brighter; in 2005 it started to migrate towards the equator and became a very powerful storm system.

Researchers at Princeton and MIT have used computer models to show that severe tropical cyclones could hit a number of coastal cities worldwide that are widely seen as unthreatened by such powerful storms.

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As this unimaginably large and powerful storm approached the Southeast U.S., we immediately put in place the same measures we did for Harvey to take care of more than 10,000 partners expected to feel Irma's effects.

The end of the period experienced powerful storms as well, according to sedimentary evidence the researchers cite.

Battered by two intensely powerful storms with sustained wind gusts of more than 150 miles per hour last year — first by Hurricane Irma and then by Hurricane Maria — Puerto Rico suffered widespread and catastrophic damage to its urban infrastructure.

Due to the direct impact from Hurricane Irma on his home in the Lower Florida Keys, his recent projects are calling attention to the massive physical destruction and catastrophic environmental damage left behind by increasingly powerful storms due to climate change.

A long - studied plan to protect Fire Island and the South Shore from powerful storms advanced Tuesday as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone vowed to work together to secure $ 700 million in federal funding.

Irma is expected to become the second powerful storm to thrash the U.S. mainland in as many weeks after devastating Hurricane Harvey, but its precise trajectory remained uncertain.

Cleanup was under way Wednesday following powerful storms that pounded the Northeast and resulted in the deaths of at least four people, including a child.

Tiny particles fuel powerful storms and influence weather much more than has been appreciated, according to a study in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Science.

Even if chasers find powerful storms brewing within driving distance, they still need an accurate forecast of the weather's progress to reach the action in time.

Infrared satellite data showed Tropical Cyclone 13P quickly developed powerful storms with very cold cloud top temperatures.

How do these forces drive powerful storms?

«Since the 19th century this shift has been largely driven by manmade emissions, and if these emissions continue as expected this will result in more frequent and powerful storms affecting the financial and population centres of the northeastern United States,» says Lisa Baldini, a geographer at the University of Durham in the UK.

Disaster is fueling a growth industry as more frequent and powerful storms lash coastal regions teeming with new homes and offices.

Speaking as a cartoonish version of himself, Zuckerberg showed viewers some of the damage caused by the recent powerful storms, mentioning, «One of the things that's really magical about virtual reality is you can get the feeling that you're really in a place.»

Tuesday's powerful storms touched off four tornadoes that killed five people.

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

These cyclones are characterized by strong localized drops in sea level pressure, and as Arctic - wide decreases in sea level pressure are one of the expected results of climate change, this could increase extreme Arctic cyclone activity, including powerful storms in the spring and fall.

Although powerful storms have been known to produce positrons — the antimatter versions of electrons — the antimatter observed by Dwyer and his team can not be explained by any known processes, they say.

But less obvious than what last year's most powerful storms did to natural landscapes is the effect they had on natural soundscapes.

One idea is that powerful storms churn up certain compounds from underneath the clouds and lift them to high altitudes.

This 3 - D perspective showed powerful storms near the center were reaching altitudes of over 14 km (~ 8.7 miles).

Hurricane Sandy's powerful storm tide flooded 70 percent of New Jersey's historic submerged marshes.

Parishioners say that in the days after one of the world's most powerful storms crashed into Tacloban, the church has been a focal point for the community, a place to be together and to mourn.

The making of these devastatingly powerful storms is caused by a low pressure air system moving northbound into the Gulf of Alaska while in the zone between, the northern arctic air and subtropical air combine to create a frontal wave as the system begins to move in a south eastward direction toward Vancouver Island.