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A spaghetti plot (also known as a spaghetti chart, spaghetti diagram, or spaghetti model) is a method of viewing data to visualize possible flows through systems. Flows depicted in this manner appear like noodles , hence the coining of this term. [ 1 ]
Hurricane Hector was a powerful and long-lasting tropical cyclone that traversed the Pacific Ocean during late July and August 2018. Hector was the eighth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane [nb 1] of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season. [3] It originated from a disturbance [nb 2] that was located north of South America on ...
The name Hector has been used for nine tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean: Hurricane Hector (1978) – a Category 4 hurricane; Hurricane Hector (1982) – a Category 1 hurricane; Hurricane Hector (1988) – a Category 4 hurricane; strongest of its season; Tropical Storm Hector (1994) – a tropical storm that affected the Baja ...
The hurricane center uses only the top four or five highest performing models to help make its forecasts. NHC also tracking two other tropical waves in the Atlantic
The storm is likely to become a hurricane by Tuesday night or Wednesday. Current forecast models show the system curving north into the middle of the Atlantic, well away from the U.S.
A third system, named Hector, has developed in Pacific Ocean A third system named Hector reached tropical storm status Sunday as it developed about 1,000 miles west of Baja California, the NHC ...
A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a warm-cored, non-frontal synoptic-scale low-pressure system over tropical or subtropical waters around the world. [4] [5] The systems generally have a well-defined center which is surrounded by deep atmospheric convection and a closed wind circulation at the surface. [4]
The strongest hurricane to reach land was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (892 hPa). [12] The deadliest hurricane was the Great Hurricane of 1780 (22,000 fatalities). [54] The deadliest hurricane to make landfall on the continental United States was the Galveston Hurricane in 1900, which may have killed up to 12,000 people. [55]