Sentences with phrase «strengthen over warm water»
They strengthen over warm water, such as that around Florida, and rising temperatures create more water vapor in the atmosphere, intensifying rainfall.
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As of Sunday night, the storm, still a tropical depression, had finished pummeling the Yucatan Peninsula and was projected to strengthen over warm Gulf of Mexico waters before making landfall on shores in the western gulf (although some models still calculate a possible risk to the oily east).
Even though La Niña produces an overall cooling effect over the eastern Pacific, the associated strengthening of the subtropical high - pressure system and trade winds causes warm water to accumulate more in the western Pacific.
With the slowly increasing SSTs as a result of global warming, greater numbers of tropical depressions will likely form, which, over warm water may mature into tropical storms, which over even warmer water may strengthen to tropical cyclones.