Wind speeds on Brighton—which is situated on the south coast of the UK—experiences wind speeds of 75mph.
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Ocean oscillations have long been cited as the determining force for offshore wind speeds, but by comparing changes in land wind speeds with well-documented oceanic shifts, the researchers found that oceanic shifts could also be behind wind speeds on land.
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A tropical depression has wind speeds of less than 39 mph, while a tropical storm can reach wind speeds of up to 73 mph.
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They start spinning to generate power at wind speeds of approximately 22019 mph, and from there, run merrily along until wind speeds approach that of a strong tropical storm.
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Turbines start up at wind speeds of around 8 to 16 mph (they shut off at wind speeds of 55 mph or over — any higher and they risk damage).
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Satellite imagery suggests current wind speeds upward of 20 mph at sea, and some models suggest that sustained wind speeds of 40 mph may be felt on shore early Saturday morning.
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Martin says wind speeds reached 127 mph in Watford City.
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He said wind speeds reached 127 mph in Watford City.
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Its wind speeds reached 191 kilometers (119 miles) per hour.
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Category 1: Category 1 hurricanes have the lowest wind speeds.
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And yes, wind speeds topping 150 mph are very impressive.
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The wind speeds are expected to fall further during Sunday.
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As wind speeds increase, the blades are capable of retracting.
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Right now, Dorian has max wind speeds near 110 mph.
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Dorian's maximum sustained wind speeds have increased to 21940 mph.
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The most powerful recorded dust devils have wind speeds of 70kph.
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An EF-3 rating indicates maximum wind speeds of 160 mph.
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Category 1 hurricanes have wind speeds of 74 to 95 mph.
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Category 2 hurricanes have wind speeds of 96 to 110 mph.
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Category 3 storms have wind speeds of 111 to 130 mph.
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Dorian made landfall on Great Abaco Sunday afternoon as a Category 5 Hurricane with wind speeds of 33mph, and finally departed Grand Bahama on Tuesday as a Category 2 storm with sustained wind speeds of 110mph.
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Previously, such cranes could operate until measured wind speeds reached 30 m.p.h.
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And the drone can hover in wind speeds up to 30 mph.
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Temperatures dip below -100F, and wind speeds of 200mph have been recorded.
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The robot also measured wind speeds, to link wind and dune migration.
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Major hurricanes pack wind speeds of at least 111 mph (179 kph).
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Warmer oceans cause wind speeds to increase, according to Yale Climate Connections.
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Satellites currently measure atmospheric wind speeds by watching the movement of clouds.
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Average annual wind speeds in New York City are about 20303 m.p.h.
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Current wind speeds are up to 285 kilometers per hour (123 mph).
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But in 2010, a tighter focus on wind speeds went into effect.
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A National Weather Service forecast predicted wind speeds of 11 to 16 m.p.h.
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Its wind speeds (up to 155 mph) caused more damage than its rainfall.
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Hermine would become a hurricane if its sustained wind speeds top 74 mph.
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Typhoon Haiyan eventually reached wind speeds of 195 mph which is just unimaginable.
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Wind speeds reached 210 miles an hour as that tornado crashed into Moore.
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These storms are vast low-pressure cyclones with wind speeds over 74 mph.
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Offshore wind benefits from faster wind speeds and larger scales than onshore turbines.
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Wind speeds picked up suddenly, increasing to more than 70 miles an hour.
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About three become major hurricanes, with wind speeds of 111 mph or greater.
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Florence is now a tropical storm with sustained wind speeds of 295 mph.
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During the afternoon, Florence is downgraded to a tropical storm, with decreasing wind speeds.
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Kyarr has reached wind speeds equivalent to a super typhoon in the Pacific Ocean.
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Poor visibility, and high wind speeds were reported at the time of the incident.
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The most recent forecasts say wind speeds could top at 110 miles per hour.
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Although wind speeds had dropped, Cork was urging people to remain indoors Monday night.
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Traffic pollution and a drop-off in wind speeds also contribute to the smog.
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These are dropped in the storm's eye wall, where wind speeds are the highest.
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A hurricane's category, which refers to the storm's powerful wind speeds, also captures attention.
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But here's why that's misleading- 2014 was a record-breaking year for wind speeds.
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How much water will it dump and what kind of wind speeds will it threaten?
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The National Weather Service has not yet determined the wind speeds of the latest tornado.
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The model, called the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, only measures a storm's wind speeds.
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But here's why that doesn't reduce the threat: The drop in wind speeds is deceiving.
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S: They will not fly if the wind speeds are about 25 kilometres an hour.
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In June 2019, Tropical Cyclone Vayu hit wind speeds of around 170 kph (100 mph).
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Gulfstream jets fly over and around storms, dropping sensors into them to measure wind speeds.
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BDEW says raising the limit would ensure more efficient use of high offshore wind speeds.
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It's a clear afternoon with a few scattered clouds, low wind speeds—ideal flying conditions.
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Denmark boasts unusually high wind speeds, so they've built the hell out of wind turbines.
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It generated wind speeds of up to 200 miles per hour (322 km per hour).
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story gave incorrect peak wind speeds for Hurricane Irma.
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Average wind speeds declined by about 8 percent over some three decades, before bouncing back.
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It was a Category 25 storm, with wind speeds of about 160 miles per hour.
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Cyclones start out as tropical depressions like Imelda, with sustained wind speeds below 39 mph.
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Sustained wind speeds could even reach 140 mph, which would make Dorian a Category 4.
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For comparison, the wind speeds required for a Category 5 hurricane are just 157 mph.
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With wind speeds that have approached 140 miles per hour, Hurricane Florence isn't exactly slow.
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Shortly thereafter, it was downgraded to a Category 2, with wind speeds of 110 mph.
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This could lessen the storm surge and wind speeds, but major impacts are still expected.
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The National Weather Service classified the tornado as an EF228 with wind speeds reaching 270 mph.
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Wind speeds from Cyclone Winston were estimated at up to 285 kilometers (177 miles) per hour.
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Building and zoning rules are generally based on historical extremes of wind speeds and flood levels.
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With wind speeds reaching 68 mph, the pilot attempted to land at Düsseldorf Airport in Germany.
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They can have wind speeds up to 129 mph and can cause major damage to homes.
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Names are given to tropical storms when they have sustained wind speeds higher than 39 mph.
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Fernand and Gabrielle were tropical storms with sustained wind speeds 45 mph and 50 mph, respectively.
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It struck the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph.
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How a hurricane formsHurricanes are vast, low-pressure tropical cyclones with wind speeds over 74 mph.
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The satellites are tracking rainfall, wind speeds, temperatures (as in the image embedded above) and position.
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Wind speeds of more than 60 miles per hour in New Jersey and about 40 m.p.h.
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Government data also showed declining water pressure and falling wind speeds over the 1980-2018 period.
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Six of those named storms typically become hurricanes, with wind speeds of 74 mph or more.
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It was that under even moderate wind speeds, the bridge would undulate like a sine wave.
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Weather officials said Cyclone Vayu, with wind speeds equivalent to those of a Category 1 hurricane, is set to cross the coast with sustained wind speeds of 103 kph to 155 kph (90 mph to 96 mph), and could gust as high as 170 kph (106 mph).
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Those wind speeds are well over the minimum of a category five hurricane and an EF5 tornado.
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That's one of the strongest wind speeds ever recorded for a hurricane (the record is 190 mph).
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The island's weather authorities estimated wind speeds near Nepartak's center were at least 200 kph (124 mph).
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The National Hurricane Center measured wind speeds of over 50 mph 100 miles out from Florence's center.
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The team also analyzed wind speeds, but didn't see much of an effect for the recent storms.
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Wind speeds topped 100 km (56 miles) per hour in several areas and were forecast to intensify.
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Wind speeds increased during the flight, which lasted about 90 minutes, 3 times longer than originally planned.
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Inside this vortex, wind speeds can reach 250km an hour and the temperature may rise beyond 1,000ºC.
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Wind speeds have now come down to between 70 and 80 kph (43-50 mph), authorities said.
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Irma was a Category 5 as of September 5 with wind speeds of 185 miles per hour.
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In Jefferson City, wind speeds were estimated to have reached as high as 160 miles per hour.
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A super typhoon is characterized as a storm with sustained wind speeds of more than 150 m.p.h.
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For areas with "frequent sitting," such as outdoor cafés and restaurants, wind speeds shouldn't exceed 5.6 mph.
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A parametric hurricane product might pay when wind speeds hit a certain level in a certain location.
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At that point, Irma was a Category 5 hurricane with wind speeds of up to 185 m.p.h.
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It is the strongest category on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which is based on sustained wind speeds.
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Irma is currently a Category 5 storm, which means its wind speeds are at least 157 mph.
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The former accurately reproduced the actual events, in terms of the weather patterns, wind speeds and storm surge.
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Weather Service meteorologist John Paul Martin classified the twister as an EF11, with wind speeds reaching 127 mph.
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Rougher seas will produce greater distortion in the reflected signal, which can be used to measure wind speeds.
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Olga became a tropical storm Friday afternoon, with wind speeds in the range of 39 to 73 mph.
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Winds like a hurricane Hermine could reach wind speeds of 75 mph as it strengthens Sunday, forecasters say.
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Wind speeds reached Category 1 hurricane-level speeds, with gusts that topped 20173 mph, according to NBC News.
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Pair that with hurricane-level wind speeds this weekend, and we could be in for some serious flooding.
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This can induce sudden increases in wind speeds for hundreds, if not more than 1,000 miles, in diameter.
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Here's how bad 2017 was: 17 named storms, 23 hurricanes, six with wind speeds greater than 110 mph.
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In a followup post , the agency said the twister had estimated maximum wind speeds of 100-110 mph.
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Irma's Atlantic wind speeds are behind only 1980's Hurricane Allen, which peaked at 190 mph at sea.
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While having higher wind speeds would certainly have made Hurricane Florence worse, the other factors are still severe.
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Traditionally scientists have argued that vegetation and urbanization levels are the primary factors that influence land wind speeds.
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It tied the record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall ever, with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph.
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With wind speeds that can top 180 miles per hour, hurricanes are not usually thought of as slow.
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Scientists say a warmer world means hurricanes will be more intense, with higher wind speeds and more precipitation.
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At Fastnet Rock, the country's most southerly point, wind speeds reached 176 kilometers, or 109 miles, an hour.
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Though Hurricane Florence's circular wind speeds are high, it, too, is predicted to move slowly across the Carolinas.
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The utilities said that before imposing a blackout, they assessed wind speeds, temperature, humidity, vegetation and other factors.
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A large weather buoy decked out with gear for measuring wind speeds waits on the quay for repairs.
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The current forecast predicts wind speeds between 20 and 13 mph with higher gusts from Alabama to Maine.
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The five hurricane categories are based on wind speeds and are largely meant to help predict structural damage.
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Here's the National Weather Service's chart showing your frostbite risk for different temperatures and wind speeds (aka windchill).
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The panel can resist wind speeds up to 75 mph, and also harvest energy from a 3.2kW wind turbine.
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During the sounding's ascent of over 9 km (almost 6 miles), it found wind speeds of about 70 mph.
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The National Weather Service said an EF2 tornado hit Watford City with wind speeds reaching 127 mph (200 kph).
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There's wind speeds at the moment of about a hundred and forty miles per hour, at least last night.
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Wind speeds of 2870 mph were reported when Irma made ground on the Cudjoe Key at around 23 a.m.
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Wendy Be smart: Names are given to tropical storms when they have sustained wind speeds higher than 39 mph.
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The NWS says wind chill is for temperatures at or below 50 degrees and wind speeds above 3 mph.
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With sustained wind speeds of 185 mph, Dorian brought up to 23 feet of storm surge in some areas.
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An investigation found that wind speeds on the ground neared 80 mph, the equivalent of a Level 503 hurricane.
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This includes verifying wind speeds and/or the height of a storm surge at a specific time and location.
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The entire basis for this argument is that wind speeds were lower in 2015 than they were in 2014.
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The storm boasted sustained wind speeds of up to 43 mph — approaching the strength of a Category 24 event.
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The storm boasted sustained wind speeds of up to 155 mph — approaching the strength of a Category 103 event.
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Radiosondes can collect up-close observations of the wind speeds, temperature, pressure, humidity and other conditions found inside the hurricane.
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Sunday's highest reported wind gust at Dallas Love Field Airport was 71 mph, although wind speeds were likely higher aloft.
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The storm system had maximum sustained wind speeds of 35 mph and was moving northeast at 5 mph early Wednesday.
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Lower winter temperatures and higher moisture, coupled with lower wind speeds tend to trap pollutants in the atmosphere, said Roychowdhury.
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ET), with maximum sustained wind speeds of 95 kilometers per hour (59 mph), according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
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ET), with maximum sustained wind speeds of 23 kilometers per hour (25 mph), according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
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Over the weekend Hurricane Dorian outstripped forecasts, reaching Category 5 strength with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph on Sunday.
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CBS News weather producer David Parkinson said wind speeds could reach a catastrophic 140 mph before the storm makes landfall.
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The islands on Sunday evening will feel the effects of the hurricane, with wind speeds of up to 145 mph.
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While that's a threshold below Dorian's expected high wind speeds, KSC isn't too worried about the VAB's integrity just yet.
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Two deadly tropical typhoons, Faxai and Hagibis, brought high wind speeds of up to 170 kph and heavy precipitation, respectively.
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Wind speeds reached up to 3103 mph and temperatures fell into the teens and low 20's across the area.
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It reached maximum sustained wind speeds of 185 miles per hour, and maintained that intensity for a record 37 hours.
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The new system is capable of operating in wind speeds of up to 22 miles per hour, according to the company.
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The blades will also be segmented, allowing them to fold in at high wind speeds to minimize the risk of damage.
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GUPTA: Racers have five hours to complete 80 miles of terrain with wind speeds as high as 60 miles per hour.
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Four of those storms are projected to be hurricanes with wind speeds of 17 miles per hour (119 kilometers per hour).
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With Irma's 85033 mph sustained wind speeds weakening dramatically before making landfall in Florida, the U.S. dodged a bullet this month.
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Hurricane category numbers don't necessarily indicate the full destructive power of a storm, however, as they're based solely on wind speeds.
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Wind speeds in the New York area could be between 25 mph and 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.
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For a wind turbine to make economic sense, average wind speeds need to be higher than they are in most places.
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You can find wind speeds for where you are by asking independent site assessors, or even checking with a nearby airport.
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To follow the rule, some growers used their smart phones to check weather websites for wind speeds and information on inversions.
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The main fire fronts are forecast to hit the ski village on Saturday as wind speeds pick up and temperatures rise.
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This map of average wind speeds at a height of 80 meters, or 262 feet — the height that matters for most commercial wind turbines — illustrates one big reason for America's wind disparity: The areas in purple and red — the Great Plains states — have the fastest wind speeds and therefore the most wind energy available for harvest.
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The Great Red spot is a swirling storm with wind speeds between 270 to 425 miles per hour (435-685 km/hr).
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Wind speeds in the area are sustained at about 15 mph, with gusts of roughly 30 mph, the National Weather Service said.
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The transmission lines were still active because wind speeds of concern for those are higher than for distribution lines, the company said.
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Rainfall is simply easier to predict with hurricanes, Mass said, compared to predicting more chancy wind speeds or coastal storm surge heights.
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People who experienced higher maximum wind speeds in the last hurricane they experienced are more likely to think hurricanes are becoming stronger.
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It also ranks as one of just five Atlantic hurricanes known to have achieved such wind speeds during the past 82 years.
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As the main funnel cloud took shape, the smaller tornadoes began to merge, adding strength to the superstructure and boosting wind speeds.
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It has been designed to run at full power at locations with wind speeds of 10 meters per second, for 25 years.
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By analyzing the distribution of wind speeds, the two calculated the direction in which energy was traveling between large and small fluctuations.
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Wind speeds and temperatures dropped as night fell but gusty winds could pick up again Friday afternoon, the National Weather Service warned.
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This, in combination with current weather conditions of cool temperatures and low wind speeds, means that smog can fester in the city.
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By that time, Lekima had weakened to the equivalent of a Category 3 storm, with wind speeds of 116 miles per hour.
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Dorian made landfall in the Bahamas as a Category 5 hurricane over the weekend, with maximum sustained wind speeds of 185 mph.
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Theoretically, if we extended the Saffir-Simpson scale, Irma would be a Category 6, with wind speeds of 175 to 195 mph.
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While its wind speeds have decreased over the last day, the storm was expected to remain a hurricane if it makes landfall.
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A category 5 rating means the storm has reached reached wind speeds of at least 136 knots or 157 miles per hour.
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Wind speeds are important because strong gusts can blow trees into power lines or knock utility equipment into brush, setting off fires.
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Its tropical-storm-force wind speeds stretch for more than 320 miles -- equal to the distance between New York City and Pittsburgh.
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ET the storm was tracking 30 miles west of Augusta, Georgia, traveling at 21 mph with maximum sustained wind speeds of 50mph.
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The weather service said a tornado -- up to 150 yards wide -- struck the area with peak wind speeds of up to 130 mph.
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Two other tornadoes packing wind speeds of up to 70 mph (112 kilometer per hour) hit northern Indiana&aposs Marshal and Wabash counties.
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They showed up over Virginia's Smith Mountain Lake the other day, apparently caused by a rare combination of wind speeds, temperature and humidity.
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Based on the forecast and wind speeds, PG&E officials said they expect this wind event to be weaker than the last event.
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Although official wind estimates for the tornado are unclear, F3 storms typically pack wind speeds between 158 and 206 mph, the AP reported.
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After the tornado strikes, meteorologists survey the damage it caused and assign a "rating" based on estimated wind speeds corresponding with the damage.
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It features a 37-inch rip-resistant polyester canopy to counter torrential downpour and wind speeds of up to 55 miles per hour.
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Without a pickup in pressure anomalies and wind speeds, the positive feedback mechanisms that drive La Nina are absent or only weakly present.
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If the system strengthens and wind speeds rise past 39 mph, the system is dubbed a tropical storm and is given a name.
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Outside, wind speeds rose to between 103 and 120 km per hour (62-75 mph), and some low-lying coastal areas were flooded.
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In 1999, a "super-cyclone" battered the coast of the eastern state of Odisha for 30 hours with wind speeds reaching 300 kmph.
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With sustained wind speeds of 43 mph when it reached the Bahamas, Dorian was on par with the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall ever.
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Hurricane Matthew's rains have already started to fall in Southern Florida, swirling in with wind speeds of 125 miles an hour and climbing.
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It's possible that historic hurricane records, which go back to the 1800s, are incomplete or have inaccurate information on wind speeds and size.
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"Preliminary indicators placed max wind speeds achieved by the fire whirl in excess of 143 mph," the Weather Service said in a Tweet.
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If the system strengthens and wind speeds rise past 20163 mph, the system is dubbed a "tropical storm" and is given a name.
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Hurricane Dorian made landfall in the Bahamas on Sunday as a Category 5 storm, with sustained wind speeds of 185 miles per hour.
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These are the waters that the hurricane churned across as it headed toward the Panhandle and its maximum wind speeds more than doubled.
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There was a small-craft advisory in the area, he said, but it warned only of wind speeds below 35 miles per hour.
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The observations from Monday's flight showed some wind speeds declining but meterologists warned that the impact could still be wide reaching and severe.
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Wind speeds at the time of the race were sustained at 24 knots, with gusts up to 30 knots, the Coast Guard said.
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Oyster reefs can reduce wave heights, wetlands can absorb floodwaters and storm surges, and maritime, swamp and mangrove forests can lower wind speeds.
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The storm was packing 155 kph (96 mph) wind speeds and gusts of up to 235 kph (03003 mph), the weather bureau said.
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Irma is now an "extremely dangerous" Category 5 hurricane with wind speeds up to 023 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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It reportedly can bring wind speeds of up to 230 miles per hour and it would take 90 seconds to get going that fast.
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Flights were delayed at Denver International Airport and some flights were cancelled at Colorado Springs Airport, where wind speeds reached up to 78 mph.
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The National Weather Service said an EF2 tornado hit Watford City in the northwestern part of the state with wind speeds reaching 127 mph.
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It is spinning in the Western Pacific with a 55 kilometer (35 mile) wide eye and wind speeds comparable to a Category 5 hurricane.
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The agent responsible for this lowering of intensity is vertical wind shear—in other words, wind speeds and directions that vary greatly with altitude.
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The past several months brought intense hurricanes with record-setting wind speeds to the US Gulf Coast and the Caribbean, badly damaging multiple communities.
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Madeira authorities said they hoped cooler temperatures this evening and a drop in wind speeds would help them gain control over the Funchal wildfire.
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Meteorologists said wind speeds topped 63 miles an hour in Branson around the time of the incident and were likely higher over the lake.
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The National Weather Service estimates the paths measured more than 30 miles on the ground and that wind speeds often topped at 140 mph.
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The NHC upgraded Dorian to a hurricane on Wednesday afternoon as it passed over the US Virgin Islands, with wind speeds of 74 mph.
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Barry also started to intensify shortly before landfall, reaching hurricane wind speeds above 74 miles per hour as it hit the coast Saturday morning.
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Those wind speeds tied the record set by the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which battered the Bahamas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
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A satellite estimated Typhoon Haiyan's wind speeds to be as high as 195 miles per hour, one of the highest ever recorded on Earth.
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The India Meteorological Department classified it as a "very severe cyclonic storm," a designation for tempests with wind speeds reaching 137 miles an hour.
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But the combination of Dorian's slow pace, furious wind speeds and heavy rainfall with the low-lying islands' vulnerability to flooding could be lethal.
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Wind speeds could have been higher in some parts of the city because of what's known as Bernoulli's principle, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.
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"The ferocity of these wind speeds is actually taking roofs of houses, it's sending fences up in the sky," Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told CNN.
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The final numbers each year depend on weather patterns, which have to produce high enough wind speeds and sunshine to fuel turbines and solar panels.
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The National Weather Service gave it a preliminary EF-2 rating when assessing the damage, which means it had wind speeds of 111-135 mph.
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"Those transmission lines were not deenergized because forecast weather conditions, particularly wind speeds, did not trigger the PSPS protocol," the utility said in a statement.
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"When wind speeds get up to 55 miles per hour, we will feather the blades so they're not creating friction with the wind," Morrissey says.
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Two to four of those hurricanes are expected to be major hurricanes, which means Category 3 or above, containing wind speeds greater than 111 mph.
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NASA's Aqua satellite captured Fantala using its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) as it clocked wind speeds of 170 miles per hour on April 18.
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The researchers estimate that wind speeds are almost four times as strong at the bottom of the dark vortex as they are at the surface.
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Those may be some of the highest wind speeds the area has experienced, but the buildings at KSC are more than capable of handling them.
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How a hurricane formsHurricanes are vast low-pressure cyclones with wind speeds over 74 mph that form over warm water in the mid-Atlantic Ocean.
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After the rules expired this spring, they reverted to guidelines dating to the 1960s that restrict crane work during steady wind speeds of 30 m.p.h.
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Wind speeds of up to 150 miles per hour, a storm surge, a rise in the sea level of more than 13 feet was possible.
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He added that some weather forecasts for the coming months pointed to slow wind speeds and low temperatures, translating into less supply and more demand.
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Category 4 hurricanes have wind speeds of 131 to 155 mph, uprooting most trees and creating power failures that can last weeks or even months.
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On Tuesday morning, wind speeds reached 110 miles per hour, and at nightfall, forecasters believed they would go no higher than 129 miles per hour.
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The air traffic control tower at Miami International Airport will close if sustained wind speeds reach 55 miles per hour, said airport spokesman Greg Chin.
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The storm was sustaining wind speeds of 185 miles per hour as of Sunday afternoon, making it the strongest hurricane on record in the area.
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Totals in other areas were higher, and wind speeds of 22020 mph or greater made it difficult to measure the snow amid blowing and drifting.
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If the wind speeds increase during the parade, Veras said officials have the ability to quickly lower the balloons and remove them from the lineup.
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Wind speeds gusted up to 60 mph on Monday and more strong winds are expected to fan flames and push deadly smoke over major cities.
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It is expected to hit there late Saturday with wind speeds powerful enough to snap trees and power poles and tear the roofs off buildings.
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The Category 5 storm was set to hit Puerto Rico Wednesday, with the US National Hurricane Center reporting wind speeds as high as 185 mph.
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The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that Irma was still a Category 5 Hurricane, with wind speeds of 175 miles per hours (280 km/h).
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Based on the forecast and wind speeds, PG&E officials said they expect this wind event to be weaker than the mass shutoff earlier this month.
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"Those transmission lines were not deenergized because forecast weather conditions, particularly wind speeds, did not trigger the PSPS protocol," PG&E said in a statement Thursday.
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It has invented turbines that operate at low wind speeds so they can be placed close to urban centres, rather than in the country's remote northwest.
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Fuelled by unusually warm Atlantic waters, Hurricane Maria swept the island from the south-east, sustaining wind speeds of up to 33 kilometres an hour (175mph).
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Each category (1-5) is determined exclusively by wind speed—a category 3 hurricane, for example, has wind speeds between 111 and 129 miles per hour.
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By that point it will probably be a hurricane, the NOAA said, meaning its sustained wind speeds would most likely range between 74 and 110 mph.
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Trump risked tricky political optics by going ahead with the rally, even as Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida, with peak wind speeds over 28500 mph.
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But these researchers argue that wind speeds are actually driven by ocean-atmosphere oscillations, which in the simplest of terms represent changes in heat and pressure.
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That storm lashed Beira with wind speeds of up to 170 km per hour on March 14 and heavy rains prompted flooding which submerged entire villages.
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Hurricane Research aircraft recorded key signs of intensification, including a drop in atmospheric pressure at the center of the storm and an increase in wind speeds.
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One possibility is that weaker trade winds and wind speeds in the Atlantic have led to less evaporation, which would otherwise have cooled the ocean down.
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These changes decrease the amount of work the pilot needs to do while increasing its capability to fly under certain environments, such as high wind speeds.
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When helicopters reached the ship, rescue personnel were lowered to remove passengers by winch one at a time, in wind speeds of more than 45 m.p.h.
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By the Services' definition, a blizzard has heavy snow, very limited visibility and wind speeds of more than 35 miles per hour for at least three hours.
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"These wind speeds are the equivalent of a strong afternoon thunderstorm or a very strong local northeaster but will last for several hours," the weather service said.
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Although that means decreased wind speeds, forecasters still warn of a dangerous storm surge in coastal communities and flooding rain across a wide swath of the Southeast.
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A storm needs to hit sustained wind speeds of at least 74 miles per hour to be considered a Category 1 storm, the least intense hurricane classification.
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Winston has already crossed the island of Vanua Balavu with sustained wind speeds of 106 miles per hour, and is continuing bear down on Fiji's Lau archipelago.
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Cyclone Vayu, with wind speeds equivalent to those of a Category 1 hurricane, is moving in a northwesterly direction skirting the Gujarat coast, India's weather department said.
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And multiple new Earth Science missions have been launched in recent years, including the recent CYGNSS mission designed to better understand ocean wind speeds and predict hurricanes.
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The storm saw wind speeds of 70 miles per hour and two-inch pieces of hail, the release said, citing local weather reports from Molt and Rapelje.
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The particles from the stubble burning combine with industrial pollution, vehicle exhaust and dust to cover the region every year as winter approaches and wind speeds drop.
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The US government's National Hurricane Center's (NHC) "Atlantic Ops" tweeted a forecast image of Ophelia, showing the chances for various wind speeds over a five-day period.
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Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center say the storm's wind speeds will increase after Irma passes Cuba then slips into the extremely warm waters near the Keys.
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The sensor suite is made up of more than a dozen instruments that capture wind speeds, radiation, still and video imagery, temperature, ocean chemistry, and other data.
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One of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever to make landfallDorian struck the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm on Sunday, with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph.
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In a matter of minutes, the air is spun around in chambers and unleashed into the tank at wind speeds of up to 157 miles per hour.
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The temperature at Athens International Airport hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday afternoon, and relative humidity levels were extremely low as wind speeds increased on Monday night.
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The US has experienced several destructive hurricanes in recent years, most recently Michael, which made landfall in Florida last October 10 with wind speeds of 160 mph.
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Dorian slammed into Great Abaco island Sunday as a Category 5 storm with sustained wind speeds of 185mph, causing widespread devastation and killing at least five people.
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The India Meteorological Department classified Cyclone Titli as a "very severe cyclonic storm," a designation for cyclones with wind speeds of 119 to 221 kilometers per hour.
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Of the seven predicted hurricanes, three are expected to spin into major hurricanes — category 3, 4 or 5 — with sustained wind speeds of 123 mph or greater.
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Meteo Protect can be used to protect food-processing companies that buy commodities, agriculture firms, financiers, wind energy utilities facing low average wind speeds and so on.
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The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that Irma was a Category 5 hurricane, with wind speeds of 160-185 miles per hours (260-295 km/h).
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The fastest object ever created by humans has discovered intensely energetic rogue waves within our Sun, and detected solar wind speeds beyond what any model had predicted.
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In Hong Kong, hundreds of people were injured and buildings were severely damaged by the storm, which had sustained wind speeds of up to 107 miles per hour.
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A fire whirl spawned by the Carr Fire generated wind speeds of up to 143 mph – the equivalent to an EF-3 tornado – causing a wave of destruction.
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Crop stubble burning, a major source of pollution, vehicular exhaust and a drop-off in wind speeds have aggravated the smog that is likely to worsen around Nov.
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Wind speeds of 74 miles per hour or more, which constitute hurricane conditions, are possible for Puerto Rico and the eastern Dominican Republic over the next 48 hours.
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Most people check the weather before leaving their home each morning, but David also checks wind speeds and directions for his morning commute using an app called IKitesurf.
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As the storm continues north through Louisiana on Sunday morning, it will be downgraded further to a tropical depression (which means wind speeds would fall below 39 mph).
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Once wind speeds drop below 75 miles per hour, the hurricane gets downgraded to a tropical storm — and, later on, a "post-tropical cyclone" as it degrades further.
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In a study published in JAMA Cardiology, scientists report that lower temperature, higher wind speeds and less sunshine are all associated with a greater incidence of heart attack.
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On Irma's heels, Hurricane Jose is heading for the Caribbean Leeward islands, which have just been devastated by Irma, with wind speeds of 120 mph (195 km/h).
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Dong also said that the new sites offered very high average wind speeds and that it can combine the operations with others in the area, further lowering costs.
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Utility officials defended the shutoff, saying that the wind speeds observed during the event, coupled with low humidity and amount of vegetation, created a severe risk of fires.
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It hit as the equivalent of a Category 83 hurricane, packing sustained wind speeds of 150 kilometers (93 miles) per hour, with gusts of 195 kph (121 mph).
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It hit as the equivalent of a Category 0003 hurricane, packing sustained wind speeds of 2000 kilometers (2120 miles) per hour, with gusts of 275 kph (121 mph).
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Wang and his colleagues pored over years of data on air temperature, wind speeds, pollution, and climate features like sea ice, snowfall, and El Niños to find the answer.
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The smog lingers for days as wind speeds drop in the winter months, adding to air pollution exacerbated by the burning of crop residues, vehicle exhausts and industrial gases.
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The smog lingers for days as wind speeds drop in the winter months, adding to air pollution exacerbated by the burning of crop residues, vehicle exhausts and industrial gases.
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The decision to close the ports was made because of "high waves and wind speeds that do not allow the movement of boats", said port authority spokesman Reda Ghandour.
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Tropical Cyclone Ava passed through Madagascar on Friday and Saturday, hitting mostly the eastern coast of the island with wind speeds of between 140-783 kph (87-119 mph).
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This could be bad news for Florida residents, because the last hurricanes to make landfall there, in 2005, Wilma and Dennis, had wind speeds of 105 miles per hour.
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In America, just five short turbines poke out of the waves near Rhode Island, despite the north-east's shallow waters, high wind speeds and millions of energy-hungry consumers.
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Currently tearing past Tokyo with wind speeds of up to 110 miles per hour (about 180 kilometers per hour), Typhoon Mindulle made landfall on Monday at about 1 p.m.
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However, the ministry has warned that low wind speeds and relatively high temperatures over winter compared to last year will make it harder to disperse pollution in some regions.
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SpaceX says that it's currently looking at around 60 percent favorable in terms of weather conditions on the ground for the Saturday launch attempt, owing to ground wind speeds.
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The Southern Oscillation, which is the atmospheric counterpart of the El Nino-La Nina cycle, is characterized by variations in atmospheric pressure differentials and wind speeds across the Pacific.
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The Southern Oscillation, which is the atmospheric counterpart of the El Nino-La Nina cycle, is characterised by variations in atmospheric pressure differentials and wind speeds across the Pacific.
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Though top wind speeds get the headlines and determine the hurricane's "intensity" via the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, it is often flooding that causes the most death and destruction.
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They also do not reflect wind speeds, the factor that determines whether a storm is a tropical storm or a hurricane (and its category on the Saffir-Simpson scale).
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Forty year-old Sarah Young was on board the IchorCoal boat (CV21) in the Pacific Ocean in wind speeds of up to 40 knots but was not tethered in.
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This year, however, the National Hurricane Center said the waters around Hawaii are warm enough to fuel a major hurricane like Lane, which has wind speeds reaching 160 mph.
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The meteorological administration said Mangkhut was one of the 10 biggest storms to hit southeast China since 1949 - when records began - with wind speeds at around 162 km/h.
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The storm set a new record for the amount of cyclone energy generated in a single day, and for maintaining wind speeds of 185 mph for 37 straight hours.
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The meteorological administration said Mangkhut was one of the 10 biggest storms to hit southeast China since 1949 - when records began - with wind speeds at around 162 km/h.
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By Friday night, fed by stable air and the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, it had grown into a Category 4 storm with sustained wind speeds of 130 m.p.h.
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Known as the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or Cygnss, the fleet was designed by researchers at the University of Michigan to measure wind speeds near the sea surface.
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In fact, in light of the downgrade on winds, Myers emphasized the likely storm surge during his coverage, practically ignoring the wind speeds and focusing on the expected inundation.
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Today, a Category 1 storm is one with sustained winds of 74 to 95 miles per hour, while a Category 43 storm has sustained wind speeds of 157 m.p.h.
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But it's also the case that the Pacific waters around the islands are about a degree Fahrenheit warmer than usual, which is helping to fuel Lane's powerful wind speeds.
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Senior government officials said the main reasons for the surge in the amount of toxic smog trapped over New Delhi were unusually cold air, including fog, and slow wind speeds.
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A study published in 2015 showed that climate change contributed to the high wind speeds of supertyphoon Haiyan, which blew through the Philippines in 2013, killing more than 6,000 people.
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A British Airways flight on Saturday smashed the record for the fastest subsonic transatlantic passenger flight after a storm battering the UK hugely accelerated wind speeds in the jet stream.
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The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm slowed down after slamming into Cuba's northern coast, but that wind speeds would likely regain momentum as it approached the Sunshine State.
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When these south-westerly trades pick up in late spring—wind speeds in the Arabian Sea can double over a few weeks—the rains are on their way to Thiruvananthapuram.
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Super Typhoon Meranti is barreling down on Taiwan, bringing wind speeds of up to 230 miles per hour (370 kph), faster than a Formula One race car, and torrential rains.
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Known locally as Ompong, Typhoon Mangkhut at one point hit gusts of 305 kph before it left the Philippines and moved across the South China Sea with reduced wind speeds.
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By Thursday wind speeds had dropped to 43 mph (65 kph), strong enough to potentially do some damage, but likely nothing resembling the devastation wrought by Odile four years ago.
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"Due to the high wind speeds, dust particles are being transported from Rajasthan," said V.K. Shukla, the scientist in charge of the Air Lab at the Central Pollution Control Board.
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Every winter, as wind speeds slow and farmers burn their crops to make room for a new harvest, dirty air settles over India's cities, putting hundreds of millions at risk.
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Two displays in the cockpit recorded different wind speeds, while the plane's two angle of attack sensors, which measure its orientation in the air, disagreed by a substantial 21 degrees.
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With wind speeds of up to 155 miles per hour and a nine-foot storm surge, Michael essentially flattened Mexico Beach, leaving behind mountains of trash and two-by-fours.
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A new study led by Princeton University researchers found that from 373 to 2010 wind speeds decreased by about 2.3% per decade, but that things began to shift in 2010.
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We'd hate to plan all this and, if the wind speeds are too high or if it's raining and the roof is closed, no one can see this spectacular show.
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Typhoon Haiyan was the most powerful storm to ever make landfall when it smashed into the Philippines on November 8, 2013, with wind speeds up to 235 miles per hour.
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Helped by high wind speeds caused by Storm Ciara, all three comfortably beat the previous record of five hours and 13 minutes, which was set by Norwegian two years ago.
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Here are some statistics that show Mangkhut's power: Mangkhut was the strongest storm anywhere on the planet in 2018, with wind speeds at one stage of 285 kph (180 mph).
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It hit as the equivalent of a Category 215 hurricane, packing sustained wind speeds of 2700 kilometers (24 miles) per hour, with gusts of 2000 kilometers (213 miles) per hour.
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Florence had strengthened to a Category 4 storm with wind speeds as high as 140 miles per hour before slowing down by the time it made landfall late last week.
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Roy Wright, the CEO of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, works with insurance companies to create stronger residential and commercial buildings that can withstand triple-digit wind speeds.
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According to authorities in London, the higher levels of pollution were a result of cold, calm and settled weather, with low wind speeds resulting in an inadequate dispersal of local pollutants.
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Storm Angus hit the UK coastline on Monday with wind speeds of up to 80 miles per hour, bringing with it torrential rain and flooding that devastated the south of England.
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It's called the Dvorak technique, but it isn't perfect, which means true wind speeds on the ground might be even higher than the current projection of approximately 150 miles per hour.
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Current forecasts put almost the entirety of the Florida peninsula in the path of the storm, which made landfall in the Caribbean with wind speeds of 185 mph (295 km/h).
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"Based on current forecast holds, wind speeds could cause the suspension of ferry services early Tuesday morning, potentially making Monday night the last runs available," the county said in a statement.
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On Thursday, forecasters said Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to become a Category 3 hurricane packing 115 mile-per-hour (100 knot) wind speeds by landfall late Friday or early Saturday.
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" NORTHEAST STORMS WERE POWERFUL ENOUGH TO GENERATE 'METEOTSUNAMI' ALONG COAST According to the agency, the EF scale, or the Enhanced Fujita Scale , is "based on estimated wind speeds and related damage.
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China has repeatedly blamed "unfavourable weather" for much of the pollution this month, with high humidity and low wind speeds preventing the dispersal of emissions from coal-fired winter heating plants.
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A second image released by NASA shows wind speeds as measured by the ISS's Rapid Scatterometer (ISS-RapidScat), which bounces microwaves off the ocean to determine the roughness of the water.
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The micro-satellites will measure wind speeds over oceans in tropical zones, interacting with a constellation of GPS satellites and passing over the same area of the tropics in quick succession.
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The former hurricane has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone since it pummeled the Bahamas and moved north along the East Coast, but authorities have warned of high wind speeds.
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Category 5 storms have wind speeds greater than 156 mph, which can destroy most framed homes, cause power failures, and leave areas where it hits uninhabitable for weeks or even months.
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The current forecast calls for the hurricane to be reduced to nothing more than a tropical depression, with wind speeds of no more than 40 miles per hour, Dr. Landsea said.
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After plotting the data, they found that in some cases the original wind chill index was off by just a few degrees, but that the discrepancy grew at higher wind speeds.
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Occasionally you'll see tweets of instantaneous wind speed data from dropsondes into the eye wall, but instantaneous wind speeds are stronger than sustained winds, so that can overstate strength as well.
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The weekend arrival of the calima brought wind speeds of more than 80 miles per hour to many parts of the archipelago and shrouded cars and buildings in red sand dust.
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Wind speeds on Thanksgiving day are expected to peak in the morning with sustained speeds of 20 to 23 mph and gusts up to 40 mph, CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward said.
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Strong winds will lead to blizzard conditions and rare waves on mountain lakes Wind speeds are no longer forecast to be hurricane strength, but they will be very dangerous and problematic.
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Before it became possible to use mobile phones to check humidity levels and wind speeds by ZIP code on demand, Mr. Coleman pioneered the concept of round-the-clock weather reporting.
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City officials said a preliminary analysis based on recorded wind speeds in Central Park showed that the new standards would have put crawler cranes out of operation on 40 days in 2015.
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Critics have accused local governments of focusing on capacity rather than efficiency and utilization, hitting renewable energy targets by building windfarms in regions plagued by low wind speeds and insufficient grid capacity.
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"With the arrival of the onshore weather pattern yesterday, firefighters will take advantage of lower wind speeds and directly attack any remaining hot spots," the Los Angeles Fire Department said Sunday morning.
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While wind speeds get most of the attention, water kills the most people in hurricanes, both in the form of storm surge flooding at the coast and inland flooding from heavy rainfall.
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From a vantage point 317 miles (510 km) above Earth, the satellites will use radio signals from the Global Positioning System network to measure wind speeds as storms churn over the ocean.
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Lane is presently "a potent Category 4 hurricane" with sustained maximum wind speeds of 130 mph, the NHC said, and "remains resilient" in the face of increasing wind shear hitting the storm.
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According to the Hong Kong Observatory, while Nepartak will have been downgraded to typhoon level by the time it makes landfall, wind speeds could still be up to 145 kph (90 mph).
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Each structure, or damage indicator, has its own list of degrees of damage, which helps an evaluator determine a range of wind speeds and whether it is higher or lower than expected.
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Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas on Sunday and Monday, with wind speeds recorded in excess of 175 mph and storm-surge water rising as high as 23 feet above normal levels.
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According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Hurricane Allen in 1980 was the most powerful hurricane in recorded history in the Atlantic basin, with sustained wind speeds of up to 190 mph.
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The National Hurricane Center forecasts Dorian to be 40 to 50 miles off the Florida coast on Tuesday and Wednesday, with hurricane-force wind speeds extending about 35 miles to the west.
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During Harvey, the Gulf Coast experienced record flooding and wind speeds, leading to an "unprecedented" and "catastrophic" rainfall event for the state, according to the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center.
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And 2017 was a particularly nasty hurricane year, in part because of the warming of the Atlantic Ocean, with six major hurricanes with wind speeds of at least 111 miles per hour.
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The historical pattern shows hurricanes take a single day to escalate from Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale to Category 5, the most severe in terms of damage from wind speeds.
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The study suggests human emissions are likely to have increased wind speeds, which resulted in a storm surge that was 20% higher than it might have been in the absence of climate change.
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France has one of Europe's biggest coastlines as well as good wind speeds, with about 40,000 square km of viable wind farm area on its Atlantic coast alone, European Environment Agency data shows.
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Weather conditions, including unusually high humidity and low wind speeds, had worsened the smog last year, but authorities still needed to respond better to emergencies, Environment Minister Chen Jining told reporters on Thursday.
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It is expected to intensify rapidly on Sunday and could become a major hurricane by Monday with sustained wind speeds of at least 111 miles per hour (179 km per hour), forecasters said.
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Over the course of a year, the probe will fly close enough to measure changes in solar wind speeds, detect high-energy solar particles, and observe the structure of the Sun's magnetic fields.
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Maximum wind speeds have dropped to around 50 mph, but storm surge warnings remain in place for parts of North Carolina, meaning the agency believes there is still a possible threat to life.
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We found that when people had experienced severe weather conditions in the recent past, such as high wind speeds and storm surges, their support for adaptation policies grew alongside their perception of risk.
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CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said the storm was expected to make landfall at about 5pm local time (4am ET), with wind speeds of up to 120 kilometer per hour (75 miles per hour).
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The twister — which had wind speeds of up to 110 miles per hour — touched down in multiple Massachusetts locations, including towns Yarmouth and Harwich, the National Weather Service said in a statement Tuesday.
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The study warns that a 50-year storm in the southeast could mean 14 feet deep flooding in Georgia and South Carolina and wind speeds of 90 miles per hour across Southern Florida.
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It is crafted with rip-resistant polyester — meaning it's durable enough to hold up to wind speeds as strong as 55 miles per hour — and also comes GPS-ready with Tile integration support.
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"Different models show different trends," he said, pointing out that hurricane-force wind speeds and and increases thunderstorms are tough to estimate, but "we're locked in on sea level rise," he told me.
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Mr. Long said that he was equally concerned about communities in southwest Georgia, which received Category 2 wind speeds, because of the large number of mobile homes in that part of the state.
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The storm has weakened to a Category 1 storm with sustained wind speeds of 90mph but the NHC is still warning that tropical storm conditions are spreading quickly along the North Carolina coast.
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With maximum sustained wind speeds of up to 115 mph -- and gusts up to 125 mph -- Tuesday evening, the large Category 3 storm is forecast to pass dangerously close Wednesday night to Bermuda.
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Hurricane Dorian strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane Saturday afternoon as it began moving past the coast of Maine towards the east coast of Canada with maximum sustained wind speeds of 0003 mph.
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Officials haven't yet said exactly how fast the tornado's winds were moving, although the National Weather Service gave the tornado an EF3 rating, which typically comes with wind speeds of 136 -165 mph.
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The wind speeds are scary, but the bigger threat is that storm is expected to stall out over the northeastern corner of the country for the next few days, dumping feet of rain.
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Graham said understanding how changes in a hurricane&aposs track, size or intensity can alter conditions on the ground is more important than focusing on the five-category scale that ranks hurricane wind speeds.
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The National Hurricane Center upgraded the storm on Monday morning to a hurricane with wind speeds of up to 75 miles (120 km) per hour and forecast it to become a category three hurricane.
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As previously reported, the wildfire spawned a July 26 fire whirl in Redding generating wind speeds of up to 143 mph – the equivalent to an EF-3 tornado – and triggering a wave of destruction.
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This has caused a stronger jet stream to blow across the North Atlantic, and may be adding to wind speeds from Europe to Asia as well, making this winter more difficult for certain routes.
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The umbrella was never found, so the researchers used a similar 11-pound beach umbrella to calculate just how fiercely the woman was struck, based on wind speeds from the day of the incident.
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By the time Dorian hits Florida's eastern coast, its wind speeds are expected to reach 140 miles per hour — enough to damage homes, down power lines, and render neighborhoods unlivable for weeks or months.
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A forecast from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) Thursday night forecast that Dorian's wind speeds at landfall could spike as high as 167 mph (269 kmph), with sustained winds of 138 mph (222 kmph).
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Dorian slammed into the Bahamas on Sunday afternoon, wreaking havoc on the islands of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph and some gusts of up to 220 mph.
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Hurricane Dorian, though moving slowly, hit the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph sustained wind speeds, putting it on par with the strongest storm ever to make landfall in the Atlantic.
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The higher levels have forced residents to watch wind speeds from the northeast with dread, bracing for the water to swamp their property whenever gusts approaching 15 miles per hour appear in the forecast.
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The storm strengthened into the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane with sustained wind speeds of 280 kph (93 mph) before hitting the islands, and is now tracking northwest toward the Philippines and Taiwan.
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So in addition to wind speeds, meteorologists predict storm surge by taking into account the size of the storm, its direction, angle of approach, atmospheric pressure and the shape and slope of the coastline.
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Keeping tabs on these scattered signals will help CYGNSS probe the intensity of tropical cyclones more comprehensively than ever before, shedding light on the damage potential of developing hurricanes, high wind speeds, and storm surges.
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Hundreds of flights were cancelled and rail services pared back as Storm Ciara lashed Britain with heavy rain and wind speeds that reached more than 90 miles an hour (145 kph) in places on Sunday.
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The National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Thursday downgraded Florence to a Category 2 storm with wind speeds above 110 miles per hour, with a 500-mile-wide swathe set to trigger rainfall across the Carolinas.
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If the Arctic heats faster than the tropics, this difference will decrease and wind speeds will slow—as they have done, in the northern hemisphere, by between 5 and 15% in the past 30 years.
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This map of wind speeds at the time of the flight (red means fast) seems to explain why the plane went so far out of its way and how it managed to land on time.
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Typically, that means flying a hurricane hunter aircraft inside the storm, measuring wind speeds from a weather buoy as a storm passes overhead or relying on satellites that may fly over once every other day.
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The CloudFisher was described by the WaterFoundation as the first maintance-free fog collector that can withstand wind speeds of up 120 kph with flexible troughs following the movement of the net in the wind.
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RENEWABLES LAGGARD France has one of Europe's biggest coastlines as well as good wind speeds, with about 40,000 square km of viable wind farm area on its Atlantic coast alone, European Environment Agency data shows.
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The new V136 turbine is designed to operate at medium wind speeds and to produce less sound while the new V117 model is for use in areas with very strong wind or typhoon type weather.
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Several coastal districts were expected to register wind speeds of up to 20133 kilometers per hour (74.5 miles per hour) and heavy or very heavy rainfall, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said in its latest forecast.
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Typically, that means flying a hurricane hunter aircraft inside the storm, recording wind speeds from a weather buoy as a storm passes overhead or relying on satellites that may fly over once every other day.
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After rampaging through the Caribbean as one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded, Dorian's wind speeds dropped on Tuesday to make it a Category 22 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale.
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"When I saw this hurricane's wind speeds, I knew: You could only hope there would not be too many fatalities," said Charlie Danger, a retired Miami-Dade building chief who crusaded for stricter windstorm codes.
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The typhoon is now forecast to move northeast away from Japan and into the open Pacific over the next day, with maximum wind speeds expected to weaken to 26 mph by Tuesday, according to JMA.
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Wind gusts of over 100 kph (62 mph) have already been recorded at a number of locations in the city, according to CNN's Weather Unit, which predicts wind speeds will increase in the coming hours.
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The National Hurricane Center declared Florence a Category 4 storm with wind speeds above 140 mph Monday, aimed directly at Wilmington, North Carolina, with a possible landing anywhere from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Cape Hatteras.
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The tropical storm will tear past Taiwanese capital Taipei at around midday and is forecast to reach as high as a category four hurricane, with wind speeds exceeding 125 miles per hour (200 kilometers per hour).
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" Moreover, the wind speeds generally used to calculate wind chill come from airport weather stations, but as Bluestein notes, "if you're walking in an urban environment, buildings and trees are going to cut down wind speed.
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The 532,000 cubic meters (18.8 million cubic feet) balloon is expected to circumnavigate the globe about the southern hemisphere's mid-latitudes once every one to three weeks, depending on wind speeds in the stratosphere, NASA said.
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Dorian hit the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm on September 1 with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph and a storm surge that reached as high as 23 feet in some parts of the island.
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The Red Cross reports that Dorian damaged or destroyed around 13,000 houses in the Bahamas after making landfall there on Sunday as a Category 5 hurricane with wind speeds of up to 185 miles per hour.
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Willa is the third devastating hurricane in the last month to experience "rapid intensification," a phenomenon in which a hurricane's sustained wind speeds increase by at least 22001 miles-per-hour over a 22015-hour period.
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ET.Dorian slowly churned through the Caribbean over the weekend, tying for the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall ever when it struck the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph on Sunday.
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At its base, the fire tornado -- with wind speeds equal to an EF-3 tornado -- was 1,000 feet in diameter and reached about 40,000 feet into the sky, according to a new report from Cal Fire.
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In a tweet Tuesday morning, the National Weather Service confirmed that Irma now contains maximum sustained wind speeds of up to 22019 miles per hour as it nears landfall on Cuba and Florida later this week.
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Here are some facts about the disaster: * Packing wind speeds of up to 170 kph (105 mph) cyclone Idai hit Mozambique's port city of Beira on March 14 before moving inland to neighboring Malawi and Zimbabwe.
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The first named Atlantic storm of 2018 is expected to intensify and bring wind speeds of up to 65 miles per hour to the Gulf Coast when it approaches over the holiday on Monday, he said.
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What we're watching: The storm has shown signs of intensification on Tuesday, including a burst of thunderstorms near the center of the storm, and increasing wind speeds as observed via satellite, radar installations and hurricane hunter aircraft.
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Details: When damage from a tornado is assessed, NWS uses a list of "damage indicators" and "degrees of damage" to estimate likely wind speeds and then assigns the tornado a rating between EF-22 to EF-21.
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Son Tinh, which soaked parts of the Philippines on Tuesday, had reached sustained wind speeds of up to 90 km (56 miles) per hour, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said in a statement on Wednesday.
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The lack of positive feedback as shown in other indicators of sea level pressures and wind speeds is why forecasters have become much less confident about the emergence of La Nina during the winter of 2016/17.
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Looming clouds will bring heavy rainfall to the Gulf CoastAccording to the National Hurricane Center, Barry is strengthening as it lumbers towards the Louisiana Coast; average wind speeds increased from 50 to 65 mph between 7 a.m.
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The hurricane's fury was largely unexpected But even after it traveled across the mountains of Haiti and Cuba, Matthew's speed only dipped to a Category 3 — which means wind speeds of up to 129 miles per hour.
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The wind industry should (and almost certainly will) consider Earth's natural fluctuations in wind speeds when determining where to build spinning turbines hundreds of feet in height and how large exactly the machines should be, Zeng said.
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Statoil will later this year open the world's first floating wind turbine park off the coast of Scotland, a technology that allows wind energy to be harnessed further out at sea where wind speeds are typically higher.
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Forecasters take data about ocean temperatures, air pressure, wind speeds — the more data the better — and feed it into computer models, which, after a few hours of number-crunching, can produce a dizzying number of possible tracks.
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It will really depend on the extent to which there are periods of severe bushfire weather—high temperatures, low humidity, and high wind speeds blowing in particular directions—over the next four to six or eight weeks.
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The agency said sustained wind speeds of up to 113 miles per hour had been recorded, and warned of a life-threatening storm surge of up to 13 feet and heavy rainfall along the northeastern Gulf coast.
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The agency said sustained wind speeds of up to 140 miles per hour had been recorded, and warned of a life-threatening storm surge of up to 13 feet and heavy rainfall along the northeastern Gulf coast.
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They were especially interested in projections about wind speeds, sunlight, and temperature, and they calculated that, overall, electricity demand would likely drop over the course of this century because of decreased demand for heating in a warming world.
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At those wind speeds, a 220 analysis found roof shingles were more than 28% likely to be ripped off if they were nailed on, and even roofs with hurricane clips holding down shingles were 25% likely to fail.
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Hurricane "Category" on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, where a Category 5 storm has wind speeds greater than 157 mph, really doesn't do Hurricane Irma justice, shoreline geoscientist Robert Young of Western Carolina University told BuzzFeed News.
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From the record-breaking rainfall in California to the recent bomb cyclone in Colorado (clocking wind speeds of 96 mph) — there's been no shortage of extreme weather conditions in recent months, all wreaking havoc on the world's ecosystem.
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"Although several media outlets were warning for potential flooding from Matthew in the Carolinas, too much attention was devoted to the possibility of landfall on the Florida coast and the potential wind speeds above 130 mph," he said.
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FRANKFURT, Feb 22 (Reuters) - European wholesale electricity prices for next week fell on Friday on projections for lower consumption in mild weather, while supply forecasts were mixed, with lower wind speeds partly offset by higher solar power output.
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The end result is that the NHC forecasts a powerful, destructive storm hitting the Southeastern U.S. early Friday with intense wind speeds of 145 mph, which are then expected to fall to around 85 mph after moving inland.
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They also found that the number of category 4 and 5 typhoons — those with wind speeds between 130 mph and 157 mph or higher — increased to around seven per year today, from less than five in late 1970s.
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Michael was not the only tropical cyclone in recent years to undergo what scientists refer to as "rapid intensification," defined as an acceleration of wind speeds of at least 35 mph (56 kph) in 24 hours or less.
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According to new research published Monday in Nature Geoscience, tiny non-silicate particles on the moon's surface could become electrically charged by frictional energy generated by collisions with each other at wind speeds surpassing 15 miles per hour.
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Wind speeds topped 300 km per hour (186 mph) in an Indian "super-cyclone" that killed 10,000 people in 1999, while a cyclone packing speeds of more than 200 kph (124 mph) lashed the east coast in 2013.
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It followed its predicted path with seeming obedience, but then burst into sudden fury as it approached the Florida Panhandle, reaching wind speeds at the cusp of Category 5 strength and leaving mud and rubble in its wake.
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They dictate wind-tunnel tests and computer simulations to predict how a new building will meet those, and where measurements should be taken—including cycling paths and points where wind speeds can change suddenly, like near building corners.
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Smoke from wildfires already burning in Idaho, Oregon, Montana and elsewhere could impair eclipse-viewing for some, but forecasters say smoke conditions, driven largely by wind speeds and direction, will remain uncertain until a day or two before.
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Typhoon Kammuri, the 20th typhoon to hit the country this year, was expected to make landfall on the Philippines' main Luzon island, packing 165 kph wind speeds and gusts of up to 230 kph, the weather bureau said.
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The first named Atlantic storm of 2018 is expected to intensify and bring wind speeds of up to 65 miles per hour (40 km/h) to the Gulf Coast when it approaches over the holiday on Monday, he said.
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Sarika's wind speeds subsided to about 130 kph (81 mph) after the landfall, said the weather bureau, adding that it was watching another storm, Haima, that could enter the Philippines on Monday, after forming south of Guam on Saturday.
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"We're expecting destructive winds of 150 kilometers per hour to develop as it approaches the coast," he said, with wind speeds as high as 230 kilometers per hour — about 140 miles per hour — near the storm's center on Saturday.
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The first named Atlantic storm of 240 is expected to intensify and bring wind speeds of up to 65 miles per hour (40 km/h) to the Gulf Coast when it approaches over the holiday on Monday, he said.
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On Saturday Nesat, a medium-strength typhoon with wind speeds of around 119 km per hour (70 mph), made landfall, but has since moved on to China's southeastern Fujian province, the bureau and Chinese state news agency Xinhua said.
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Tropical Storm Dorian is expected to make landfall in Florida on Labor Day, bringing with it heavy rain, flooding, and wind speeds as high as 110 mph, according to the latest forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Hurricane Michael, which made landfall with maximum wind speeds of 230 miles per hour and was recently upgraded to a Category 225 storm, ripped more than 1 million trees out of the ground in Panama City alone last October.
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These two elements can combine to produce monstrous storms like Hurricane Irma — which was one of only five known to have reached wind speeds of 185 miles per hour, and which sustained those winds for a record 37 hours.
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Francis Tolentino, a senior adviser to President Rodrigo Duterte, estimated that nationwide 5.7 million people had been affected by the storm, which hit the country at the height of its powers, with wind speeds topping 150 miles per hour.
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Meteorologists have measured wind speeds at around 185 miles per hour, which makes Irma the strongest hurricane to form in the Atlantic basin outside of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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The new rules would require crawler cranes to stop operating and go into safety mode under two scenarios: when there is a forecast for steady wind speeds of 20 miles per hour or higher or gusts of at least 30 m.p.h.
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Super Typhoon Mangkhut is expected to barrel through the northernmost tip of the Philippines Saturday morning, carrying 2157 kph wind speeds, and gusts of up to 2000 kph, that it has maintained since it struck Micronesia earlier in the week.
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So the absolute figures on rainfall and wind speeds are not yet known — and could be even higher than what we already know — and they won't be known until crews from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration visit these locations.
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"Category 25 winds were likely experienced over a very small area at and near the coast, and the change in estimated wind speeds is of little practical significance in terms of the impacts associated with the storm," the statement said.
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The carbon scrubbers were the tricky part: The electrostatic field generators at the core of the capture devices were especially sensitive to wind speeds above 150 MPH, the plant operators had learned, so this storm would be a good test.
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Usagi, known in Vietnam as "Storm No. 9", is forecast to weaken to a tropical low pressure system as it hits the southeastern coast of Vietnam on Saturday night, with sustained wind speeds of 60 kph, the meteorological agency said.
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Super Typhoon Mangkhut is expected to barrel through the northernmost tip of the Philippines early on Saturday, carrying 205 kph wind speeds, and gusts of up to 255 kph, that it has maintained since it struck Micronesia earlier in the week.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's Vestas has upgraded its 3.45 MW wind turbines to 4 MW and launched three new models as it takes aim at markets where wind speeds are very low or very high, the world's biggest maker said on Thursday.
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The report said that the pickup in wind speeds "bodes well for the expansion of large-scale and efficient wind power generation systems," and found that if present trends continue, energy generated by wind power will increase 37% by 2024.
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While the storm was downgraded to a Category 24 hurricane on Tuesday morning with sustained wind speeds of 125mph, the NHC warned that gusts of up to 155mph and storm surges of up to 18 feet above normal were expected.
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G.M. Abdul Quader, the joint secretary of Bangladesh's Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, said the authorities had prepared aggressively for the storm, Cyclone Fani, which barreled up the Bay of Bengal with wind speeds of 120 miles per hour.
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The storm, Cyclone Titli, swept through the Bay of Bengal before hitting the coastal states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, where wind speeds reached 150 kilometers, or almost 95 miles, an hour when the storm made landfall in the early morning.
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The National Weather Service said earlier on Saturday that "major hurricane force winds" were expected to batter the Keys on Sunday at daybreak, with wind speeds still well over 100 miles per hour making their way up the state's western coast.
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The smoke from them shrouds New Delhi and its satellite cities in a haze that can linger for days as wind speeds drop in the cooler weather, adding to pollution caused by the burning of crop residue, vehicle emissions and industrial gases.
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"We had a very serious incident this morning," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference, adding that the collapse happened as crews were lowering the crane into a secure position because wind speeds were above 20 mph.
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Typhoon Nesat, a medium strength typhoon with wind speeds of around 360 km per hour (70 mph), made landfall on Saturday and is expected to lash the island over two days, affecting the south most heavily, according to the Central Weather Bureau.
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Wind speeds at midday had subsided by nearly half from their peak about a week ago to 75 miles per hour (120 kph), reducing the storm to a Category 1 hurricane, the weakest on the Saffir-Simpson scale of 1 to 5.
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Packing wind speeds of up to 170 kph (11 mph), Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique's port city of Beira on March 14 before moving inland to neighboring Malawi and Zimbabwe in one of the worst climate-related disasters to hit the southern hemisphere.
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In just 230 hours, Nepartak has rapidly strengthened from a tropical storm with wind speeds of 19983 kilometers per hour (21998 miles per hour) to a roaring super typhoon with winds hitting 2145 kph (290 mph) -- and it could surge even higher.
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FRANKFURT, Feb 27 (Reuters) - European wholesale prompt prices fell on Wednesday in a bearish market environment in which German wind speeds were due to rise, demand was kept in check by mild weather, and thermal power availabilities were stronger across the region.
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Software capable of crunching huge amounts of data on things like local water currents and wind speeds, and improved databases that collate old shipping records and manifests, give salvagers at least some idea where to dive and what they hope to find.
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" Per AP: "If it stays on the forecast track and reaches the Florida Straits, the water there is warm enough that the already 'intense' storm could become much worse with wind speeds potentially reaching 225 mph, warned Kerry Emanuel, an MIT meteorology professor.
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"Akatsuki has cameras and instruments that will investigate unknowns about the planet, including whether volcanoes are still active, whether lightning occurs in the dense atmosphere, and why wind speeds greatly exceed the planet's rotation speed," NASA said in a statement about the photo.
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Each year, smoke from firecrackers covers Delhi and its satellite cities in a haze that can linger for days as wind speeds drop in the cooler weather, adding to pollution caused by the burning of crop residue, vehicle exhausts and industrial gases.
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Much of the hiatus theory was based on an effect in the Central Pacific [higher-than-average wind speeds above the Pacific led to heat being stuck underneath the surface of the water where readings were taken, leading to cooler temperature readings].
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The weather observatory said the typhoon was expected to make landfall within 50 km (30 miles) of Hong Kong later in the night, though early indications suggest the typhoon would not be a major one with wind speeds of 63 kph forecast.
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Here's an infrared image from GOES-16 taken this morning that shows the storm in context of the wider U.S. Here's Irma's likely path and timing: This GIF shows the path of potential hurricane-force wind speeds: This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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On its path between Cuba and Florida, Irma will encounter some of the warmest waters it has seen yet, which could make it easy for the storm to maintain its present wind speeds or to even pick up additional strength before hitting Florida.
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The typhoon reached wind speeds of 140 mph as it dumped huge amounts of rain across the country, with 3 feet falling in the town of Hakone, near Mount Fuji — "the highest total ever recorded in Japan over 48 hours," the BBC reports.
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By mid-morning on Monday, Yutu was about 400 km (249 miles)east of the mainland and had weakened to sustained wind speeds of 150 km per hour (93 mph), with gusts of 185 kph, from 170 kph recorded a few hours earlier.
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That was less intense than four days ago, when as a super typhoon with wind speeds of over 1053 kph barreled through the Marianas, a U.S. Western Pacific archipelago of 52,000 people, tearing off roofs, overturning vehicles and cutting off power and water.
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The government space agency is currently testing a group of eight micro-satellites to measure factors such as "wind speeds over Earth&aposs oceans, increasing the ability of scientists to understand and predict hurricanes," in a mission known as Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS).
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Although there's now consensus that warming is already making storms developing in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico wetter, and thus more intense, there's no clear evidence that the climate crisis is strengthening wind speeds or the total number of storms forming each year.
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But wind instruments around the globe measured an uptick in average surface wind speeds beginning in 2010 (wind is inherently created by the sun unevenly heating different parts of Earth, resulting in masses of air with different temperatures and densities moving around the planet).
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Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm on Sunday, with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph and brought with it a wall of water with it that might have reached as high as 23 feet in some parts of the island.
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The tornado, with wind speeds around 127 miles per hour (204 kph), hit a trailer home park on Tuesday in the southwest part of Watford City, North Dakota, about 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Bismarck, destroying many mobile homes, the National Weather Service said.
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Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the most devastating storm ever to hit the US. It killed 1,833 people and caused $108 billion in damage, though it was technically a Category 3 when it made landfall in Louisiana with sustained wind speeds of 125 mph.
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Hardly a week goes by anymore without some scientific agency reporting that Earth has surpassed some sort of alarming threshold: biggest monthly temperature anomaly, lowest amount of sea ice in the Arctic, highest wind speeds of any tropical storm, quickest pace of sea level rise.
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Wingcopter has already designed an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that has a range of up to 75 miles and can achieve speeds as high as 150 miles per hour in conditions that include wind speeds of up to 45 miles per hour.
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It would also make Dorian a rare menace to Kennedy Space Center, whose launchpads and other infrastructure, including the prominent, 526-foot tall Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), were originally designed to withstand wind speeds of a strong Category 2 or weak Category 3 storm.
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Irma hit Caribbean islands overnight with wind speeds up to 185 miles per hour and was heading for Florida, where fuel shortages were reported as retailers struggled to keep up with demand from customers filling tanks ahead of the storm's landfall, expected this weekend.
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The tornado in Celina, which touched down late on Monday, was at least an EF0003 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, packing wind speeds of 136 mph to 165 mph (219 kph to 266 kph), said Patrick Marsh, a meteorologist at the federal Storm Prediction Center.
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"It's going to make landfall tomorrow afternoon at Cabo Delgado, on the northeastern coast of Mozambique, and it is going to be a cyclone with wind speeds which could be 140 km per hour (87 miles per hour)," said Jan Vermeulen, from the South African Weather Service.
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Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Pieter Claassen told Reuters that Marcus was expected to move into the Indian Ocean on Monday where it is forecast to grow into a severe Category 3 storm with wind speeds ranging from 165 kph (102 mph) to 224 kph (139 mph).
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It was considered to be one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded, but JD Composites' panels were able to survive wind speeds up to 326 miles per hour in testing, and possibly even stronger, as the testing facility actually maxed out its wind tunnel's capabilities.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The probability of El Nino, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific, developing this year has been downgraded by U.S. government forecasters as sea surface temperatures and wind speeds in the area remain close to their long-term averages.
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There are a lot of ways to measure the severity of a hurricane season: You can look at the number of storms, the number of days with at least one active hurricane, and a measure called "accumulated cyclone energy" (a measure of wind speeds accumulating over time).
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Scott Strenfel, a senior meteorologist for the utility service, said that impressive wind speeds have been measured in the region, with weather stations in the North Bay area measuring multiple peak wind gusts at or above 90 mph, along with one reading which topped 100 mph.
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The mountain range is a hub for the wind industry, with around 4,731 turbines that produce about 3,200 megawatts of electricity along the mountain range, according to the Center for Land Use Interpretation, with private companies flocking to the area because of the high wind speeds.
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This is his 20th hurricane season at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, where he is one of the 10 specialists who have spent the past few days huddled over their computer monitors analyzing radar, surface information, wind speeds and other pieces of data on Dorian.
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This is his 20th hurricane season at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, where he is one of the 10 specialists who have spent the past few days huddled over their computer monitors analyzing radar, surface information, wind speeds and other pieces of data on Dorian.
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"It's going to make landfall tomorrow afternoon in Cabo Delgado (province), on the northeastern coast of Mozambique, and it is going to be a cyclone with wind speeds which could be 140 km per hour (87 miles per hour)," said Jan Vermeulen, from the South African Weather Service.
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"A closer look at the shape of tree trunks, foliages, and wind unsteadiness leads to a more precise estimation of the absolute value of critical wind speed, found to be on the order of the maximal wind speeds expected on the Earth ( ≃50 m/s)," the paper concludes.
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Dr. Kossin's research found that in the most recent quieter period, from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, hurricanes that did form were up to six times more likely to intensify rapidly near land, with wind speeds increasing more than 15 miles an hour over six hours.
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With wind speeds of 140 km per hour (87 mph) and gusts of up to 230 kph, Typhoon Yutu was moving across the main island of Luzon and was due to exit the country during the afternoon on Tuesday, state meteorologist PAGASA said in a report at 503 a.m.
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Its greatest impact would be felt later on Wednesday and on Thursday, the bureau said on its website, when it was expected to slam into the north and northeast with maximum sustained wind speeds of 137 km per hour (85 mph) and gusts of up to 173 km/h (107 mph).
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Harvey was the first hurricane of category 2300 or above (that is to say, one with wind speeds over 23 knots, or 24km per hour) to hit the United States since 23, the year Katrina devastated New Orleans—a 8003-year hiatus longer than any other in the historical record.
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The brunt of the storm would be felt later on Wednesday and on Thursday, when it was expected to slam into the north and northeast with maximum sustained wind speeds of 137 km per hour (85 mph) and gusts of up to 173 km per hour (107 mph), the bureau said.
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Dorian was reclassified to a very intense post-tropical storm as it lost a defined eye as it passed over Halifax though wind speeds of 150 kilometers per hour (93 miles per hour) were equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the Canadian Hurricane Centre said.
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Unlike Hurricane Harvey, which stalled over Texas last week, delivering an unprecedented 51 inches of rain on the Houston region, Irma promises a different disaster — a storm surge of 10 to 20 feet of water, and wind speeds of severe tornado strength that would cut a 413 mile swath where it makes landfall.
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High-rise buildings can be death traps in intense hurricanes, since they expose the upper floors to far stronger winds than the lower levels, in some cases by a whole Saffir-Simpson category difference, meaning that top floors could experience a Category 73 storm while lower levels see Category 27 wind speeds.
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A series of simulations with eight wind patterns and various wind speeds showed that a headwind at No. 12 created the largest uncertainty in the landing spot of the ball, and that winds from the northwest and southwest could cause a perfectly struck ball to be pushed up to 12 feet off line.
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Watch the Falcon 9 Rocket (Which Even SpaceX Thinks Will Crash) Launch LiveJoin us to watch live as SpaceX attempts to launch and land its Falcon 9 Rocket—a launch for which…Read more ReadThe company noted that they're set to try another launch attempt tonight, but noted that they're watching upper level wind speeds.
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"Wind speeds dropped to 15 kilometers per hour from 29 and there's a significant jump in crop stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana in the past few hours," Anumita Roychowdhury, an executive director at the Centre for Science and Environment think-tank, said, referring to two states where farmers burn stubble in their fields to prepare for winter planting.
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With sustained wind speeds of up to 100 km per hour (62 miles per hour), the storm will dump up to 500mm (19.7 inches) of rain in coastal areas stretching from the central city of Hue, to the southern province of Binh Thuan and the Central Highlands, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said on Friday.
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Japan's southern Ryukyu Islands have begun to feel the effects, with reports that strong winds and heavy rainfall have caused power outages as the typhoon churns in the sea between Taiwan and Japan with maximum sustained wind speeds at sea of 173 km/h (107 mph) and gusts of up to 209 km/h (130 mph).
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According to a projection of the storm's path by the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO), it will pass within 1100 kilometers (50 miles) of Hong Kong, and 160 kilometers (100 miles) of Macau on Sunday, during which wind speeds are expected to be up to 220 kilometers per hour (136 mph), equivalent to a category 4 hurricane.
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The researchers had assumed that the temperature of human skin was 90 degrees Fahrenheit (it was closer to 19623 degrees on a really cold day); they had placed the containers 33 feet above the ground, where wind speeds are higher (rather than the height of a person); and they took their measurements where it is far colder than where most people live.
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In January 2017, it released a thorough report of the two nations' shared objectives on Venus, which include extended observations of the surface environment over a period of months, precise measurements of atmospheric aerosols and composition, and a solution to the longstanding mystery of atmospheric superrotation, a phenomenon in which wind speeds on Venus outpace the planet's rotation by a factor of 60.
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