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NOAA Predicts Near Normal Or Above Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season
... to 9 hurricanes and 2 to 5 major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale ...NASA sees Carlos power back up to hurricane status in 3-D
... (3 a.m. PDT), Carlos had regained hurricane status as a Category One storm on the Saffir-Simpson Scale with maximum sustained winds near ...Hurricane Felicia eyeing Hawaii while weakening on weekend
... p.m. Hawaiian Time), Felicia had weakened from a Category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale to a Category two hurricane with sustained ...NASA watches as Hurricane Bill sweeps over Bermuda
... are, and the higher the thunderstorm, the more powerful it is, and Bill is pretty powerful as a Category Three Hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. In infrared imagery, NASA's false ...NASA infrared imagery sees landfalling Jimena, weak Kevin and pyrocumulus clouds
... is approaching Baja California. This is a powerful storm with sustained winds that are a Category Four on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. AIRS revealed very high ...NASA's TRMM sees huge Typhoon Parma bringing more rain to the Philippines
... (132 mph) with higher gusts. That makes Parma a Category 4 Typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. Parma's center is located about 230 nautical miles east-northeast of Manila ...2 NASA satellites capture monster Super Typhoon Melor
... ) instrument on Terra provided a dramatic image of Melor at Category 5 strength on the Saffir-Simpson scale with maximum sustained winds near ...Baja California residents watching for Hurricane Rick
... is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane over the weekend, and may become a major hurricane (Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale) by the end of day on Sunday, October ...The GOES-12 satellite sees Large Hurricane Ida nearing landfall
... sustained winds were near 80 mph, making her a Category One hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. She may hang on to hurricane strength ...NASA's TRMM Satellite sees most of Ida's heaviest rain stayed off coasts
... did enter Gulf of Mexico as a tropical storm, strengthened to a Category One Hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, and as of 10 a.m. ET on Monday ...Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically
... was a powerful Category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Wind shear has now giving ... from a category 2 tropical cyclone (on the Saffir-Simpson scale) to a powerful category 3 tropical ...NASA's Aqua satellite sees Nida explode into a category 5 Super typhoon
... (150 knots) with gusts as high as 207 mph! A category five typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson scale has sustained winds greater than 155 ...NASA captures a visible image of Cleo's new eye
... extend as far as 65 miles. Cleo is at the top end of the Category Two Saffir-Simpson scale. Category three cyclones have sustained ...Tropical Cyclone Mick forms quickly, hits Fiji in the southwestern Pacific
... Cyclone Mick had weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall as a Category One Cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson Scale with maximum sustained winds near ...Tropical Cyclone Laurence menaces Northern Australia
... 103 mph (90 knots) making it a Landfalling Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. Laurence's center was near 16 ...
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