... whether global warming is producing more powerful storms, after Nargis smashed into Myanmar -- brutally changing gear from a Category One to a Category Four cyclone just before it made landfall.
... a devastating one for Myanmar (Burma). According to reports from Accuweather.com, Cyclone Nargis made landfall with sustained winds of 130 mph and gusts of 150-160 mph, which is the equivalent of a ...
... . Not only that, warmer temperatures will actually reduce the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic and those making landfall, research meteorologist Tom Knutson reported in a study released Sunday.
This season, hurricane forecasters are implementing a plan to continually monitor a storm's strength in the hours before it makes landfall with the hopes of giving better warnings.
The strengthening Category 2 storm, expected to make landfall at the U.S.-Mexico border today, has helped make July 2008 already the third most active month on record for hurricanes.
Florida battened down Monday as Tropical Storm Fay packed on more power on its way to becoming a full-blown hurricane, after claiming more than 40 lives in the Caribbean.
... shut down much of Hong Kong for a day, was gradually weakening on Saturday after making landfall in China, though it disrupted hundreds of flights and left three people dead in Guangdong province.
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay extended her stay in Florida on Saturday making landfall for a record fourth time as she trudged across the state's northern panhandle and took aim ...
Hurricane Gustav barrelled toward landfall Tuesday in Haiti, and also was likely to strike Jamaica and Cuba, less than two weeks after the Caribbean was battered by Tropical Storm Fay.
... ) - Tropical Storm Fay was downgraded to a tropical depression late on Saturday after making a record fourth landfall in Florida and drenching the state's northern panhandle with heavy rainfall.
... to warn of the higher-than-average probability of at least one intense (or major) hurricane making landfall in the United States in the remaining months of this year's hurricane season.
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This Sept. 1 early morning infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft
shows Hurricane Gustav about six hours before the Category Two storm
made landfall in Louisiana.
... the Gulf of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of more than 210 km per hour and made landfall in Louisiana on 1 September (visible) as a Category 2 hurricane with winds close to 177 km an hour.
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... through Cuba and Haiti. ESA's Envisat satellite is tracking the storm, which is forecast to make landfall on the Texas coast by 13 September. Knowing the strength and path of hurricanes is critical ...
Hurricane Ike hasn't been strengthening yet as of Thursday morning, Sept. 11, but he is getting larger. Ike is a very large tropical cyclone with hurricane force winds as far out as 115 miles from ...