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This is due to increasing Coriolis force closer to the poles, and which is zero at the equator. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] One associated phenomenon often seen with low-latitude cyclones is the equatorial westerly wind burst , which allows for sufficient shear vorticity on both sides of the equator to support tropical cyclogenesis. [ 5 ]
"Hurricane" is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy and released as a single in November 1975. It was also included on Dylan's 1976 album Desire as its opening track. The song is about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937–2014).
Hurricane Catarina was an extraordinarily rare hurricane-strength tropical cyclone, forming in the southern Atlantic Ocean in March 2004. [13] Just after becoming a hurricane, it hit the southern coast of Brazil in the state of Santa Catarina on the evening of 28 March, with winds up to 140 kilometres per hour (87 mph) making it a Category 1 ...
To put it in perspective, picture yourself standing on the equator, directly south of New York City. In fact, in the United States, this is the one city that has the highest hurricane risk.
United States Central Pacific Hurricane Center: Equator northward, 140°W – 180° [87] Western Pacific: Japan Meteorological Agency PAGASA: Equator – 60°N, 180–100°E 5°N – 21°N, 115°E – 135°E [88] [89] North Indian Ocean: India Meteorological Department: Equator northward, 100°E – 40°E [90] Southern Hemisphere: South-West ...
Isaac Monroe Cline (1861–1955) was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas office of the U.S. Weather Bureau from 1889 to 1901. Cline played an important role in influencing the storm's later destruction by authoring an article for the Galveston Daily News, in which he derided the idea of significant damage to Galveston from a hurricane as "a crazy idea".
In 1975, a nameless hurricane formed from the remnants of Hurricane Ilsa northeast of Hawaii. The storm became the farthest-ever north Pacific hurricane and came close to the coast of Alaska, but ...
(A few hurricanes have impacted the state since, most notably Hurricane Kathleen in 1976, but those storms had all made landfall in Baja California first, causing them to weaken to tropical ...