Sentences with phrase «storm strength on»
The storm only briefly hit tropical storm strength on Saturday as it came ashore from the Pacific Ocean over the weekend, but the death toll had risen to 115 at last count.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
The second maximum - strength storm to hit the Caribbean this month, Maria battered the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix on Wednesday before heading toward Puerto Rico, where it was set to be the strongest storm to hit the island in about 90 years.
Estimates for damages caused by Hurricane Harvey are climbing with the storm poised to regain strength in the Gulf of Mexico before crashing back on land.
Maria is expected to maintain her strength as she moves onward toward Puerto Rico, but it is possible that she will weaken slightly, making landfall some time on Wednesday as a Category 4 storm.
Tropical storm and hurricane - strength conditions are expected to begin in Florida around 2 pm on Saturday and continue into Sunday.
New Labour stormed the Conservatives» key electoral strengths on the economy and law and order and combined them with their own, the NHS, education etc..
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Isaac neared hurricane strength last night, closing on the Gulf Coast with a projected landfall a day short of the seventh anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina.
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.
A new study has found that turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind speeds.
The team ran simulations to gauge the effect of midair collisions on a storm's strength, which they measure as flux, the number of particles passing through a given volume of air in a given amount of time.
He thinks previous models that did not take midair collision into account have been underestimating the strength of sandstorms, making their prediction of a storm's effects on the landscape inaccurate.
It's these lower wind speeds, around hurricane strength, that are most common — even on the edges of stronger storms — according to Grimes.
The maps are the result of years of experience and recent polling that found most Americans living on vulnerable coastlines paid too much attention to hurricane wind strength and not enough to storm surge before deciding whether to evacuate ahead of a storm, Rhome said during an interview at this week's National Hurricane Conference in Orlando.
These intra-cloud bolts seem to occur primarily while the storm is building in strength, so space - based observations could help alert people on the ground to the mounting tornado risk.
As the hurricanes Iselle and Julio gain in strength near Hawaii, it will be interesting to see how the storms on another world also continue to evolve.
«A storm like that would produce a radio signal approaching one per cent the strength of the signal that was observed in 2009 on the exoplanet HAT - P - 11b.»
From visionary director Ava DuVernay and based on Madeleine L'Engle's timeless classic, A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry (Storm Reid), as she sets out on a transformative journey to discover that strength comes from embracing one's flaws and that the light inside us can overcome the darkness around us.
On November 17, 2012, Alvarenga set out with an untested mate, Cordoba, hoping to outrun a possible Norteno — a violent storm capable of producing hurricane - strength winds.
Storms often hit after they've peaked in strength or before they get a chance to, but Haiyan struck when it was at its most powerful, based on U.S. satellite observations, Emanuel said.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center in May projected between a dozen and 16 named storms, including 2 to 5 major hurricanes (those above Category 3 on the Saffir - Simpson scale of storm strength).
-- Kerry Emanuel, who has been studying hurricanes and climate change for decades, has a great page on his Web site at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology consolidating the many competing computer model runs aiming to forecast the strength and track of tropical storms.
In the meantime, keep a weather eye on the Web site of the National Hurricane Center and Kerry Emanuel's page at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which collects a variety of forecasts of storm strengths and tracks.
However, in terms of predicting whether a hurricane will hit NOLA or Mobile AL, that is inherently uncertain more than few days out (predictability depending on the large scale circulation system and the strength of the storm).
The National Hurricane Center's final 3 - day projected track for Hurricane Irene keeps the powerful storm centered on the populous metropolitan corridor from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., through New York City — showing the storm still maintaining hurricane strength as it approaches the New York coastline.
Both Lee and Swanson et al. find that barotropic effects may be of importance for the localization of storm tracks though they disagree on the strength of the effect (Swanson et al. 1997; Chang et al. 2002).
Not surprisingly, perceptions of hurricane strength were mainly based on the intensity of the most recent storm they experienced, rather than an average of the last several.
«Coming off one of the most devastating hurricane seasons in recent memory, many are quick to blame the strength and frequency of these storms on global warming.
The team then compared the oxygen isotope ratio for each year's wet season from 1990 to 2010 with a cyclone activity index of the average accumulated energy expended, based on factors such as number of cyclones, cyclone strength, size and time on storm track.
It is important to note that the Ap index is not a representation of the Sunspot number (direct measure of solar activity) it is related to the strength of the geomagnetic storms as measured here on Earth.
This correlation provides evidence that the translation speed of a storm can exert a significant control on the intensity of storms by modulating the strength of the negative effect of the storm - induced sea surface temperature (SST) reduction on the storm intensification (i.e., the SST feedback): Faster - moving storms tend to generate weaker sea surface cooling and have shorter exposure to the cooling, both of which tend to weaken the negative SST feedback
Re # 207: Strengths of these historical hurricanes are hard to pin down, but of course it would be foolish in the extreme to assume that the TX coast hasn't been hit by Rita - sized storms on numerous occasions in the past.
Waves crest and blow over the seawall at Bryant Park in Lake Worth, Fla., as the first tropical storm - strength winds of Hurricane Irma pass over central Palm Beach County on Sunday, September 10, 2017.