Floridians should ‘keep their guard up’ in hurricane season: Weather expertNational Hurricane Center Director Mike Brennan and ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee discuss forecasting the powerful storm.Sean Rayford/Getty Images Temperatures may be starting to drop in the U.S. as autumn kicks ...
Intensity tendencies of annular hurricanes are examined using the best track dataset and shows that these intense tropical cyclones maintain their intensities longer than the average hurricane and therefore present a significant intensity forecasting challenge. Using NCEP numerical analyses and Reynold's SST...
"The waves generated by a hurricane differ from those generated by normal wind conditions in several ways," explains Frederic Raichlen, author of the must-have book "Waves." "The speeds of the wind in the hurricane aren't constant, so the wave characteristics vary." "The winds in a hurric...
The life of a hurricane is only about nine days, but it contains almost more power than we can imagine. The energy in the heat re-leased (释放)by a hurricane's rainfall in a single day would satisfy the entire electrical needs of the United States for more than six months. Water, not...
What wind speed is a hurricane? What is thermal wind balance? How are winds named? What is a tornado wind shear? What kind of wind shear is the most hazardous? What are trade winds? Wind power generates what kind of pollution?
"Forecasting an El Niño can be very challenging! If you get a weak El Niño and have a relatively warm tropical Atlantic, you can still get a very busy Atlantic hurricane season. However, historically when El Niño events have exceeded 1.0 °C warmer than normal, these seasons hav...
The agent could also look at where the shipment currently is and how long it has taken in the past to make the next leg of its journey. If it’s in an air freight terminal in Boston and a hurricane is moving up the East Coast, the agent might infer that a delay is likely and ...
Wal-Mart:Wal-Mart, the multinational retail corporation, has been widely recognized for its accurate supply chain forecasting practices. By leveraging advanced data analytics and demand forecasting algorithms, Wal-Mart is able to forecast demand with remarkable accuracy. For instance, during hurricane se...
Dr. Greg Forbes, hurricane expert. If not for the super outbreak, that could have happened. Forbes was a graduate student at the University of Chicago studying under Fujita in early 1974. "Dr. Fujita was running out of research funds to support my studies," Forbes told weather.com. "I ...
One of the biggest challenges for those new to forecasting is the tendency to close off to possibilities that lie at the fringe of personal experience or beyond. To be fair, it’s hard to consider the probabilities behind an event that you’ve never personally witnessed or lived through; we...