We were lucky in getting these pics, as the next day a big
rain and wind storm swept through town!
Overnight
rain and wind storms, during the day variable winds with a 4 -5-foot swell running.
Not exact matches
Forecasters predict that Hurricane Harvey could slam the Texas coast right before the weekend as a Category 3
storm, bringing
winds in excess of 125 mph
and dumping more than 25 inches of
rain.
The
storm will bring high
winds, snow
and freezing
rain through the central
and northern Plains
and the Great Lakes areas as it moves east.
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.
NPR
and PBS have been reporting on the island's difficult post-Maria recovery,
and have painted a picture of a «perfect
storm,» mostly financial in making, that had pushed Puerto Rico to the brink long before the
winds and rain swept in.
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.
Irma's
winds, which peaked at 185 mph, tore through human settlements
and toppled trees, while its
rain and storm surge have flooded homes
and streets.
But don't focus so much on the category number, which is determined solely by
wind speed: It's the combination of
wind,
storm surge,
rain, flooding,
and even the possibility of tornadoes that are the biggest concern for much of the Florida peninsula.
When Hurricane Irma was advancing toward Florida in early September, weather officials were looking at a very scary scenario: an extremely powerful Category 4 or 5
storm hitting with 150 mph
winds, flooding
rains,
and up to 15 feet of
storm surge for coastal cities like Miami
and Tampa.
The Category 3
storm lashed the northern coast of the Dominican Republic with heavy
rain and 115 - mph
winds.
In Corpus Christi, the major city closest to the
storm's center,
wind whipped palm trees
and stinging sheets of horizontal
rain slapped against hotels
and office buildings along the seawall as the
storm made landfall.
[40] August, 1955 - Hurricanes Connie
and Diane both cause as much as 10 inches (250 mm) of
rain and tropical
storm force
winds.
«We're still under hurricane watch
and it looks likely we'll have substantial
rain,
storm surges
and wind speeds that could be pretty severe».
The eye of the
storm on Thursday morning was a short distance north of Puerto Rico where lashing
rains and strong
winds have already left 900,000 people without power.
But if you have built you life on Jesus Christ,
and obedience to His Word, when the
storm comes, no matter how severe it is, no matter how the
winds rage, no matter how the torrents of
rain fall, no matter how high
and violent the river gets, you will stand strong.
The parables disclose with what pleasure
and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried
and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand
and lost it in the first
storm of
wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants
and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle
and sweeps diligently till she finds it,
and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share —
and how long such a list might be!
Under primitive conditions man was so at the mercy of
wind and storm, heat
and cold, drought
and rain, mysterious diseases
and unpredictable disasters, that the first, natural explanation of his good or evil fortune was sought in the will of superhuman forces.
The lighting
storms, thunder,
rain,
wind, hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, snow
and ice, heat
and drought, death, illness, blindness, deafness, this list could go on
and on.
Hurricane Flora, with 80 - mph
winds gusting up to 108, raged through Palmer Stadium,
and torrential
rain drenched the 5,000 spectators (of an original crowd of 31,000) who stayed to brave the
storm.
Protect your child from the
wind and rain with the
Storm Cover.
Whipping
winds, pounding
rain, a blackout
and a hospital evacuation — how one brave mom weathered a
storm of historic proportions to welcome her little bundle.
Explain that it is a big
storm with a lot of
wind and heavy
rain.
For a younger child, you might say, «A hurricane is a tropical
storm with very strong
winds and lots of
rain, lightning,
and thunder.»
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says two people are dead
and about 157,000 power outages are reported following the ferocious
wind,
rain and hail
storm that bore down on New York's lower Hudson Valley.
(WBNG) Tuesday's
storm brought
winds and rain to the Twin Tiers.
For Ted's Electric Service in Syracuse, the
storm brought
winds strong enough to rip off the roof,
and rain constant enough to soak the inside of the building.
Cleanup is under way in New York's lower Hudson Valley after a deadly
storm packing
wind,
rain and hail.
[27] Extratropical
storms often affect the county; in the winter, Nor'easter s bring heavy snow
and rain,
and sometimes high
wind.
The
storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of
rain, high
winds and possibly heavy snow.
The Category 1
storm will whip up large waves
and life - threatening rip currents off Long Island
and New Jersey from Tuesday into Wednesday, while pummeling the city with
rain and fierce
winds, the National Weather Service predicted.
PUTNAM VALLEY, N.Y. (AP)- Gov. Andrew Cuomo says two people are dead
and about 157,000 power outages are reported following the ferocious
wind,
rain and hail
storm that bore down on New York's lower Hudson Valley.
He was on a 9 a.m. flight, but his plane was delayed due to a tropical
storm that has brought intermittent
rain and wind to the island.
The
storm shutters» slats overlap to keep out both
wind and rain.
Hurricane Sandy barreled into the U.S. East Coast on October 29, bringing heavy
rains, high
winds and severe
storm surges from the Carolinas to New England.
At 55, Sakurai considered himself steady in a
storm, the embodiment of his favorite poem by Kenji Miyazawa, with whom he shares an alma mater, Iwate University: «Strong in the
Rain / Strong in the
wind / Strong against the summer heat
and snow / He is healthy
and robust / Unselfish / He never loses his temper / Nor the quiet smile on his lips / That is the kind of person / I want to be.»
VETERAN Australian
storm - chasing photographer Nick Moir was at home with his kids when the radars he watches religiously showed Sydney was about to get battered by unusually strong
wind and rain.
When reflected back by
rain, hail, airborne debris, or even insects, the waves create an image of
storm activity
and indicate
wind velocity.
«Using lightning data to modify the air moisture was enough to dramatically improve the short - term forecast for a strong
rain,
wind and storm event,» said first author Ken Dixon, a former UW graduate student who now works for The Weather Company.
In the simulations, the clockwise - swirling
winds of a ridge in the Northern Pacific drove
storms and rain north, beyond California
and into the Pacific Northwest, the researchers report today in Nature Communications.
The most dangerous kind breed within
storms that are themselves intimidating, often delivering hail the size of golf balls, vicious gusts of
wind,
and rain capable of flooding roads instantly.
Meanwhile the Caribbean
and Southeast will see increases in
wind,
rain and storm surges.
On Earth, regularly occurring weather phenomena include such things as
wind, cloud,
rain, snow, fog
and dust
storms.
Even if the
storm veers east in the Atlantic Ocean, an unusually large atmospheric pressure gradient near the
storm is destined to push strong
winds onshore for many hours, bringing an extended period of high surf
and heavy
rain, forecasters say.
As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, federal forecasters are warning that the massive
storm could bring «life - threatening»
storm surges, flooding, hurricane - force
winds, heavy
rain and even blizzardlike snowfall over an area stretching from the Carolinas to Canada,
and west to Ohio.
The results perplexed the team initially as the answers were turning out to be more complicated than they originally postulated — the
storm was more violent in terms of both
wind and rain.
Alternate between
wind,
rain, thunder,
and lightning to create a
storm.
In fact, we've been on «
storm watch» for the past couple of days — no snow, but lots
and lots of
rain and wind!!
They're waterproof, breathable, provide
wind and rain protection,
and the insulation keeps you warm inside even when it's
storming outside.
Last night we had a pretty bad
rain storm with
winds that managed to push our covered deck furniture clear across the other side
and even the grill moved a few feet away from its original location!