Sentences with phrase «pressure center of the storm»

As high - pressure air is sucked into the low - pressure center of the storm, wind speeds increase.

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The precipitation has intensified over a very large region and the barometric pressure of the storm's center has dropped from 995 to 983 mb.

NOTE: The Atlantic Tracks File is an ASCII (text) file containing the 6 - hourly (0000, 0600, 1200, 1800 UTC) center locations (latitude and longitude in tenths of degrees) and intensities (maximum 1 - minute surface wind speeds in knots and minimum central pressures in millibars) for all Tropical Storms and Hurricanes from 1851 through 2002.

Lightning time series graphs include histograms of strokes per hour within 100 and 1,000 kilometers of the storm center, along with maximum wind speed and minimum pressure data from NRL (Figures 2b and 3) and a lightning density spectrogram binned by the distance from the storm center.

The track and intensity of the storm was poorly forecast, but new research performed at the University of Manchester and in the United States at the National Weather Service's Ocean Prediction Center shows for the first time the mechanism that may cause the strong winds in these low - pressure systems.

Midlatitude synoptic storms (Fig. 9), associated with low and high pressure centers and warm and cold fronts, are the largest in scale (a thousand kilometers or more) of all storm types.

«According to the center's records, the all - time strongest storm in this area occurred on Dec. 15, 1986, and that had a minimum central pressure of 900 millibars,» Mashable's Andrew Freedman reported on Tuesday.