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This article appeared in print under the headline «Hypnotic whirling dervishes rely on hurricane physics»

These provisions often rely on the hurricane shutting down the local airport, however, and travelers should inquire directly with the hotel or resort about their policies with regards to hurricanes.

Not exact matches

The National Hurricane Center, for example, relies on the «cone of uncertainty» which generates a five - day forecast.

Smartphones generally rely on cell towers, many of which have been destroyed or taken offline by the hurricanes.

He often relies on lesson he learned while working with the U.S. military: «Put yourself in the hurricane and be a part of it.

The classic rum cocktail usually relies on ginger beer for its spicy punch, but this hurricane - strength potion not only uses a homemade lemon - ginger brew, it also garnishes itself with candied ginger.

«These two catastrophic hurricanes have devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, forcing families there to rely on the support from people around the world,» said Stiller.

But I was relying on a Scott Tent, designed by its famous namesake more than a hundred years ago and little changed since, a testament to its ability to withstand hurricane - force winds not uncommon on the continent.

«Due to economic losses sustained due to Hurricane Sandy, many marinas and tackle stores in the northeast were relying on the summer flounder fishery to finance rebuilding and repair costs,» noted the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's fishery performance report released last summer.

It would be a bit like asking the hurricane forecasters how many of the 19 named storms last year were due to factor X. Both rely HEAVILY on theoretical models which give ballpark figures, and which, obviously, can be dramatically inaccurate.

Thus, I generally reserve Sileo for major tropical storms and hurricanes, rely on Thundershirt with occasional Valium and scratching Bernie's head.

It would be a bit like asking the hurricane forecasters how many of the 19 named storms last year were due to factor X. Both rely HEAVILY on theoretical models which give ballpark figures, and which, obviously, can be dramatically inaccurate.

It is interesting to note that the AMO explanation still relied on warmer surface waters as the root cause of hurricane intensification.

The fact that hurricane events are relatively rare leads to a limitation in the amount of data available — fewer events, and that's why the «skeptics» have to rely on statistical rather then mechanical arguments (notice also that the media seems to avoid any mention of the fact that hurricanes operate as «heat engines»).

Dr Gray's biggest problem is that he completely rejects AGW, in its place he relies on an ocean temperature cycle which guarranties a period of calm and furious hurricanes, of which we are right into the middle of an active period.

New Orleans's resilience to repeated floods and hurricanes in the past relied primarily on short - term flood protection levees, rather than a strategy of enhancing overall community resilience.

Rather than rely on his hunch that weather history was becoming bunk, Muir - Wood gathered four of the world's best minds on the subject of hurricanes.

The scientists relied on the same model the National Weather Service uses to predict hurricane activity for a given season.

For example, as part of HFIP, a group of researchers set up shop in Boulder, Colo., far from tropical weather systems, where they took advantage of high speed computer resources to duplicate a computer model that the Hurricane Center relies on to make its forecasts.

While NOAA relies on the Air Force Reserve's «Hurricane Hunters» unit for the vast majority of hurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne DopplHurricane Hunters» unit for the vast majority of hurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Dopplhurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Dopplhurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Doppler radar.

Yet, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy relies almost entirely on this junk science to justify her agency's policies — and repeats EPA models and hype on extreme weather, refusing to acknowledge that not one Category 3 - 5 hurricane has made U.S. landfall for a record 9.3 years.

So if we had only relied on landfalling hurricanes we would have a different story.

The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.

With hurricanes, coastal storms, flooding and wildfires all posing serious risks, many homeonwers rely heavily on their home insurance policies to pay for repairs and annual upkeep.

Unavoidable power outages loomed over a majority of Broward County as well, leaving students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in fear of Hurricane Irma since many locals heavily rely on technology and air conditioning systems.