Sentences with phrase «storm systems form»
These enormous, swirling storm systems form over the ocean.
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The resulting disturbance can form a self - sustaining low - pressure vortex, or what is called a tropical depression; as the system intensifies it becomes a tropical storm.
They can affect the entire atmosphere, possibly seeding new weather systems that can combine to form planet - wide storms unlike anything we see on Earth.
Jeffrey Kiehl, PhD, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, in Boulder, points to volumes of studies exploring responses of extreme storms to a warming planet and concludes that «these systems that form in the tropics can propagate up to the polar regions.»
Besides describing the most benign form of oceanic storm, the title Tropical Depression refers to a kind of internal weather system combining melancholy and a sense of hopefulness.
Possibly, this forming El Nino also had an impact on formation of tropical storm systems in the Western Atlantic this past hurricane season.
In addition, a recurring, dust - laden layer of air stretched out over the Atlantic from western Africa and kept a lid on storm formation, preventing tall thunderheads from forming and becoming tropical systems.
A storm like Irene could happen during any hurricane season, but La Nina reduces wind sheer, a force that zaps energy from weather systems, high over the Atlantic, making it easier for tropical storms and hurricanes to form.
There's effectively a storm factory over the Atlantic, caused by cold polar air pressing up against warm, tropical air, causing weather systems to form.
When tropical cyclones — storm systems ranging in strength from tropical depressions to major hurricanes — form over the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, they have a high chance of causing many deaths as well as widespread property damage in coastal communities.
«Storm chaser Lance Ferguson followed the system which formed in the Oklahoma panhandle.
The mid-latitude cyclones that form as wave like patterns and migrate along the Polar Front, are major storm systems that occur more frequently and can impact much larger areas than any other severe weather system.
Snow is a critical part of the weather system (did you know there's a whole «cryosphere»), and the ways in which it forms and melts can help meteorologists predict, for example, the likelihood or severity of a storm.