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Boise is approximately 400 miles inland from the coast of Oregon. The aftermath of the strongest hurricanes can reach over 1,000 miles inland. ... Pacific every now and then. In 1975, a nameless ...
The National Hurricane Center is currently tracking five tropical disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean, the agency said in an advisory that was updated Thursday afternoon.. There has been a ...
The 2024 hurricane season is not going as predicted – yet. So far this year there have been more storms in the Pacific than the Atlantic, including the three spinning now, and that's a surprise ...
The wettest tropical cyclone in the United States storm on record is Hurricane Harvey, which dumped 60.58 in (1,539 mm) of rain on Southeast Texas in 2017. Tropical Storm Claudette holds the national 24-hour rainfall record: 42.00 in (1,067 mm) in Alvin, Texas.
VERO BEACH, Fla. −A relative meteorological calm that has settled over the southeastern U.S. after months of brutal storms does not mean the 2024 hurricane season plans to go out quietly ...
The names of all the major hurricanes that impacted Texas during the 1980s were later retired by the World Meteorological Organization. [4] In contrast to the 1980s, during the 1990s only one hurricane, Hurricane Bret, made landfall on the Texas coast. [5] In the next decade five hurricanes would make landfall on Texas. [1]
Rusty Pfost, now the head of the Miami National Weather Service Forecast Office, did a study in 1999 reviewing rainfall totals from tropical systems affecting Florida between 1960 and 1998. He found that for tropical cyclones moving at greater than 6 knots, the average storm total was normally in the 5–10 inch (127–254 mm) range.
NOAA is now expecting 14 to 21 named storms, meaning a sustained wind speed of at least 39 mph. Six to 11 of those could become hurricanes, with winds of 74 mph or more, and two to five could ...