Hurricane season begins June 1 and rides throughout the summer into the late fall, ending on November 30. We are just two weeks past the peak of hurricane season, so to see a storm with the impacts of Tropical Depression Ophelia come make landfall is not unusual in the slightest. ...
Tropical Storm Ophelia strengthens into hurricane again
Storm that could become Hurricane Helene takes aim at Florida's Gulf Coast The U.S. Gulf Coast is bracing for a major hurricane, with Tropical Storm Helene expected to intensify rapidly into a Category 3 storm and hit Florida's Big Bend. ...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Tropical Storm Ophelia formed off the mid-Atlantic coast and was expected to bring heavy rain, storm surge and windy conditions over the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said Friday. Ophelia had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95...
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Ophelia shouldn’t be able to strengthen much more and should weaken slightly as she moves into increasingly higher shear to the north. The good news is that she should pass off to the east of Bermuda without a direct hit, though she could still spread tropical storm conditions over the ...
A new era in hurricane observation began when a remotely piloted Aerosonde, a small drone aircraft, was flown through Tropical Storm Ophelia as it passed Virginia's eastern shore during the 2005 hurricane season. A similar mission was also completed successfully in the western Pacific Ocean.[255]...
A mature hurricane orchestrates more than a million cubic miles of atmosphere. Over the deep ocean, waves generated by hurricane winds can reach heights of 50 ft or more. Under the storm center, the ocean surface is drawn upward like water in a straw, forming a mound 1–3 ft or so ...
Over the past 2 years, NOAA and NASA have experienced two successful UAS missions into tropical storm Opheila (2005) and Hurricane Noel (2007). In both cases, the UAS obtained continuous, near-surface thermodynamic and wind observations at altitudes as low as 350m (Ophelia) and 85m (Noel)...
[Frank and Husain,1971;Dube et al.,1997]. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina inflicted $149 billion in losses (adjusted to 2013 Consumer Price Index), making it the most costly natural disaster in U.S. history [National Climate Data Center,2014] and three times more costly than any nonstorm ...