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Get the Funchal, Madeira Islands local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
The drought began on May 20, 2013, following the dissipation of the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma EF5 tornado. [11] [12] Several tornadoes since the Moore EF5 have reached the 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) wind speeds needed for a tornado to be classified as an EF5, including the 2013 El Reno EF3 tornado and 2015 Rochelle–Fairdale EF4 tornado, with wind speeds measured in excess of 295 miles per hour ...
[32] [33] In America, experimental television forecasts were made by James C. Fidler in Cincinnati in either 1940 or 1947 [clarification needed] on the DuMont Television Network. [30] [34] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, John Coleman, the first weatherman for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)'s Good Morning America, pioneered the use ...
According to the actual weather forecast at Funchal airport at 8:50pm, the wind speed was 6 knots (3.1 m/s; 11.1 km/h; 6.9 mph) - a heading of 200, visibility 5 kilometres (3.1 mi; 2.7 nmi), cloud 7/8, rain showers, airfield pressure at runway 24: 1006 mbar, at runway 06: 1008 mbar, temperature 18–19 °C (64–66 °F).
The Townsville Airport announced closure from 12:30 PM on 2 February due to the severe weather conditions, with airlines canceling and rescheduling services. By 3:30 p.m. local time, the Ross River Dam reached a capacity of 163.8%, causing Townsville's disaster management group to close it to the public and halt traffic to the area. [ 5 ]
In the United States, the wind speed used in design is often referred to as a "3-second gust", which is the highest sustained gust over a 3-second period having a probability of being exceeded per year of 1 in 50 (ASCE 7-05, updated to ASCE 7-16). [18]
Between 6 am and 11 am local time (and UTC), 108 mm (4 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) of rain was recorded at Funchal weather station and 165 mm (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) of rain at the weather station on Pico do Areeiro. [178] The average rainfall in Funchal for the whole of February is 88.0 mm (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). [179] Damage was confined to the southern half of the ...
[3] [4] The establishment of weather ships proved to be so useful during World War II that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) established a global network of 13 weather ships in 1948. [3] Of the 12 left in operation in 1996, nine were located in the northern Atlantic Ocean while three were located in the northern Pacific Ocean ...