Sentences with phrase «winds of a hurricane»

A traffic signal topped by the winds of Hurricane Harvey lies in an intersection of downtown Corpus Christi, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017.

The Deerfield Beach International Fishing Pier was closed Friday because of apparent damage from the winds of Hurricane Matthew Thursday night.

The prevailing winds of a hurricane push a wall of water, called a storm surge, in front of it.

His three gifted assistants are the laser - eyed Cyclops (James Marsden), the telepathic / telekinetic Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), and Storm (Halle Berry), who can summon forth lightning and winds of hurricane force.

Hurricane insurance is designed to cover damages caused by the heavy winds of a hurricane.

Due to deforestation of some areas, the local school and more than 20 homes battled the strong winds of both hurricanes, with nothing to protect them.

The 120 MPH sustained winds of this hurricane left a wide path of destruction.

«We found that when wind turbines are present, they slow down the outer rotation winds of a hurricane,» Jacobson said.

Hurricane insurance is designed to cover damages caused by the heavy winds of a hurricane.

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.

Not exact matches

Forecasters predict that Hurricane Harvey could slam the Texas coast right before the weekend as a Category 3 storm, bringing winds in excess of 125 mph and dumping more than 25 inches of rain.

The storm surge — the quick rise in water caused by a hurricane's strong winds — crested several feet at the height of the storm on the Texas coast.

Harvey arrived on the shores of Texas as a hurricane Friday night, packing sustained wind speeds as high as 130 mph.

The vortex, a mass of whirling gas much like a hurricane, is larger than the Earth and has top wind speeds of 220 mph.

Hurricane Irma drove toward Florida as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind 21 deaths and a swathe of catastrophic destruction.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind at least 21 deaths and a swath of destruction.

In early February Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas battled hurricane - force winds and 30 - foot waves, and the same ship is again facing severe weather, forcing an early return to its New Jersey port.

Diminished only slightly to a Category - 4 hurricane since Friday, with sustained wind of 130 miles per hour, Matthew has already caused «torrents of rain» in Jamaica, according to NBC News.

The hurricane is about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour (250 km per hour), the NHC said, adding that it is moving in a north - westerly direction at 10 mph (17 km / h).

The strong Santa Ana winds — reaching near hurricane force — have helped the fire spread across over 60,000 acres, mostly in Ventura County, which is about 70 miles outside of LA.

The eye of Irma, a Category 5 storm packing winds of 185 miles per hour (295 km per hour), passed over the island of Barbuda east of Puerto Rico, early on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami reported, possibly hitting Florida on Saturday.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, churned across northern Caribbean islands on Wednesday with a catastrophic mix of fierce winds, surf and rain, en route to a possible Florida landfall at the weekend.

Now Hurricane Jose, a Category 4 storm, is headed for Antigua and Barbuda with maximum sustained wind speeds of 150 mph, and local officials are trying to evacuate the entire island of Barbuda in the few hours they have to do so.

On the tiny island of Barbuda — where the hurricane first made landfall — cell towers snapped under the force of 185 - mile per hour winds, cutting off communication.

Hurricane Maria made landfall at 6:15 am on September 20 in Yabucoa, in southeastern Puerto Rico, as a Category 4 storm with winds of 155 - 200 mph source.

A big storm can escalate into a hurricane through sudden shifts in wind and pressure just as an economy can tumble into recession when a bubble bursts because of financial vulnerability.

January 2018 — Present / Puerto Rico In the Fall of 2017, Hurricane Maria's 155 mph ferocious winds plowed through the island of Puerto Rico, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

With wind gales as strong as 160 mph, Hurricane Maria blasted through the country, damaging 90 % of all structures and knocking out all power, water and telecoms.

In the Fall of 2017, Hurricane Maria's 155 mph ferocious winds plowed through the island of Puerto Rico, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

The hurricane was still dumping rain overnight Wednesday in Puerto Rico, where crumbled red roof tiles lay scattered across many roads, and curious residents sidestepped and ducked under dozens of black power lines still swaying in heavy winds.

More than 200 days since the Hurricane Maria's 150 mph winds and 36 inches of rainfall knocked over 80 percent of the island's power lines, thousands of Puerto Ricans are still in the dark.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a hurricane severity scale that factors in wind speed, hurricane size, and forward speed (whether it stalls or not) to rate the potential destructiveness of a storm 1 - to - 10 scale.

When Hurricane Irma was advancing toward Florida in early September, weather officials were looking at a very scary scenario: an extremely powerful Category 4 or 5 storm hitting with 150 mph winds, flooding rains, and up to 15 feet of storm surge for coastal cities like Miami and Tampa.

In fact, it can be the most dangerous part of any hurricane, and it is only partly determined by wind speed (the aspect of a storm on which the hurricane categories are based).

Earlier in the week, Irma sustained 185 mph winds for more than 24 hours, a record length of time for a hurricane in the Atlantic.

In August, Hurricane Harvey unleashed unprecedented rainfall across Texas causing severe wind and flood damage in the southeast of the state.

The extent of the damage is unknown given that dozens of municipalities remained isolated and without communication after Maria hit the island Wednesday morning as a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years.

Immediately after Hurricane Irma's eye passed over the Florida Keys, massive damage to the Lower and Middle Keys was apparent where hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed by high winds and a huge storm surge.

Hurricane Harvey was one of the worst in Texas» history, but even as the winds die down, the damage from rain remains.

It's quite a daunting challenge, given that the average hurricane's wind energy equals about half of the world's electricity production in a year.

One hour of 30 - second #GOES16 vis imagery as Hurricane #Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys as a cat 4 with sustained winds of 130 MPH.

By late Wednesday, Maria had weakened to a Category 3 storm with its center closing in on the Dominican Republic, moving northwest at 9 mph with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Irma, still in the Atlantic, strengthened to a Category 5 storm on Tuesday, with wind speeds in excess of 175 miles per hour.

«Do not venture outside when the calm eye of the hurricane passes over, as dangerous winds will return very quickly when the eye moves away,» a forecaster warned in a previous advisory.

Hurricane Harvey became the nation's first Category 4 landfall in almost 12 years, hammering the Texas Gulf Coast with an extremely dangerous combination of torrential rainfall, storm - surge flooding and destructive winds.

The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade came ashore late Friday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 130 mph (209 kph) winds.

«At stake for FPL are the claims of all customers who paid for storm - recovery charges and nevertheless lost power for a prolonged period in the sweltering summer heat after Hurricane Irma's outer bands unleashed tropical storm force winds in the South Florida area,» a law firm representing the plaintiffs said in a statement.

September 8: Irma remained a Category 5 hurricane with wind of 175 mph.

The storm began its life just west of Guinea - Bissau, Africa, on Aug. 27 as a non-tropical disturbance, with winds of just 29 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.

But what started out as a forceful gust of wind with the potential to transform into a hurricane has at least temporarily turned into nothing more than the passing of a springtime storm.