Sentences with phrase «reach hurricane strength»

Wind speeds average around 50 miles per hour, although they can occasionally reach hurricane strength (64 miles per hour).

a) sea surface temperatures; b) precipitation; c) heavy lines: frequency of formation of tropical cyclones; light lines: frequency of formation of tropical cyclones that reach hurricane strength.

If you remember the original suggestion was that Ernesto would reach Hurricane strength by Tuesday and almost overnight it reached this boundary.

A total of 9 to 11 are expected to reach hurricane strength.

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.

In the last 10 seasons — 1998 - 2007 — those averages have been about 15 tropical and subtropical storms per year, about 8.1 reaching hurricane strength, and about 3.7 reaching major hurricane strength.

But the averages of the last 20 seasons (1988 — 2007) have been 13 tropical and subtropical storms per year, about 7 reaching hurricane strength, and about 3 reaching major hurricane strength.

Not exact matches

It was the first recorded hurricane to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir - Simpson Hurricane Scale in the Atlantic basin; it remains the only recorded hurricane to strike Puerto Rico at Category 5 strength, and one of the ten most intense ever recorded to make landfall in the Unitehurricane to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir - Simpson Hurricane Scale in the Atlantic basin; it remains the only recorded hurricane to strike Puerto Rico at Category 5 strength, and one of the ten most intense ever recorded to make landfall in the UniteHurricane Scale in the Atlantic basin; it remains the only recorded hurricane to strike Puerto Rico at Category 5 strength, and one of the ten most intense ever recorded to make landfall in the Unitehurricane to strike Puerto Rico at Category 5 strength, and one of the ten most intense ever recorded to make landfall in the United States.

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.

And then two to four of those hurricanes would be expected to reach major hurricane status, defined as Category 3 or above on the Saffir - Simpson scale of hurricane strength, or winds above 111 mph.

Original post, Oct. 3 Hurricane Matthew, which briefly reached Category 5 strength last Friday and remained a potent Category 4 storm today, is poised to pummel Haiti overnight with ferocious winds and dangerous downpours — up to 40 inches in spots — before roaring north over Cuba and the Bahamas.

It reaching the strength of a category 4 hurricane at its peak, with wind speeds reaching 209 — 251 kilometers per hour, enough power to snap most trees and down power lines, according to the National Hurricanhurricane at its peak, with wind speeds reaching 209 — 251 kilometers per hour, enough power to snap most trees and down power lines, according to the National HurricaneHurricane Center.

Just two tropical cyclones have formed which have reached the equivalent of hurricane strength — Ula and Victor.

Since the mid-1970s, the number of hurricanes that reach Categories 4 and 5 in strength has roughly doubled.