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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 ...
In addition, at 1700 UTC during the hurricane season, a medium-range coordination call takes place between the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center and the National Hurricane Center to coordinate tropical cyclone placement on the medium-range pressure forecasts 6 and 7 days into the future for the northeast Pacific and Atlantic basins. Every ...
Tropical cyclone forecasting is the science of forecasting where a tropical cyclone's center, and its effects, are expected to be at some point in the future. There are several elements to tropical cyclone forecasting: track forecasting, intensity forecasting, rainfall forecasting, storm surge, tornado, and seasonal forecasting.
Tropical Storm Joyce formed in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean Friday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm was located about 1,325 miles east of the Northern Leeward ...
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.
Hector, formerly a tropical storm, dissipated early Thursday morning more than 1,000 miles from Hilo, Hawaii, according to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center, which has released its final update ...
Percentages of hurricane deaths in the United States from 1970 to 1999. The effects of tropical cyclones include heavy rain, strong wind, large storm surges near landfall, and tornadoes. The destruction from a tropical cyclone, such as a hurricane or tropical storm, depends mainly on its intensity, its size, and its location. Tropical cyclones ...
A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second map projection. In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane.