Wind speed, however, is not usually the main cause of death and destruction from hurricanes, the researchers say. The worst impacts are usually caused by flooding, precipitation andstormsurge, combined with geography of landfall, population density, and quality of infrastructure. The researchers wante...
With sea level rise, New York City faces an increased risk of hurricane storm surge. Storm surge is an above normal rise in sea level accompanying a hurricane. Hurricanes are categorized on the Saffir-Simpson scale, from 1 to 5, with 5 being the strongest and most destructive. The scale i...
The hurricane model described here takes into account the effects of changing sea surface roughness and the air-sea temperature difference on the estimated surface-level wind speeds. Comparisons between modeled and observed hurricane wind speed records are performed where one compares both the 10-min ...
With wind direction from the outputs of U.S. Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) model, C-band geophysical model functions (GMFs) which describe the normalized radar cross section (NRCS) dependence on the wind speed and the geometry of radar observations (i.e., ...
*** IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT F-SCALE WINDS:Do not use F-scale winds literally. These precise wind speed numbers are actually guesses and have never been scientifically verified. Different wind speeds may cause similar-looking damage from place to place -- even from building to building.Without a ...
184: The highest wind speed, in mph, measured by a dropwindsonde released in Florence’s eyewall at the 909-mb level at 2101 UTC on September 10, 2018. 937: Estimated minimum central pressure, in millibars. 900,000+: The number of utility customers who lost power across NC. ...
This scale—created by American engineer Herbert Saffir and American meteorologist Robert Simpson (director of the National Hurricane Center from 1968 to 1973)—is based on wind speed, and the rankings, represented by categories 1 through 5, take into account the damage and other ground-level ...
Records obtained from 17 anemometer sites in the HoustonGalveston area provide estimates of the fastest mile speed at 10 m above ground in open rrain. The wind speed estimates at various locations are compared with codes and standards for wind speed design values for constructed facilities. The ...
The stormwindmodel package was created to allow users to model wind speeds at grid points in the United States based on “best tracks” hurricane tracking data, using a model for wind speed developed by Willoughby and coauthors (2006). The package includes functions for interpolating hurricane tr...
the storm hitBay Saint LouisinMississippi. Camille’s gusts were powerful enough to knock out all wind-recording instruments, leaving some experts estimating wind speed at more than 200 miles (320 km) per hour. Parts of the Gulf of Mexico coast experienced tides more than 24 feet (7 metres...