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Africa and Indian Ocean islands such as Mauritius and Madagascar. When the average wind speed of the storm reaches 74 mph, the tropical cyclone is classified by various different names globally despite resulting from the same process: Hurricanes - Atlantic and North-East Pacific Oceans Typhoon/Super

is controlled by the monsoon, making for persistent heavy rains. Whereas the rainy season in Cuba is related to the occurrence of heavy evening thunderstorms and infrequent but intense tropical cyclones (hurricanes). Countries and regions with a monsoon rainy season A monsoon is a reversal of the mean

2020 2020 has seen an especially active Atlantic Hurricane season. At the time of writing in early October the pre-determined list of 21 names for Atlantic storms has already been exhausted and Greek characters are now being used. This has only happened once before in the very active 2005 hurricane

The Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre (MOSWOC) uses numbered scales developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). These scales are similar to those used to describe hurricanes or earthquakes and are used world-wide to classify space weather conditions

stream, with cooler temperatures to the north and warm temperatures to the south. Ex-Ophelia which affected Ireland and Britain on Monday and Tuesday had a different origin as it developed from a hurricane in the tropical Atlantic. You can find out the current forecast in your area using our forecast

expressions of moderate and cloudy etc. etc.'. Beaufort's first scale had 13 forces and he also developed a series of 'weather letters' which could be used to describe various states of the sky. Beaufort revised his scale in 1807 to the more familiar 12 forces with the strongest being described as 'hurricane

venue in the city is the Wellington Regional Stadium, home to the Wellington Lions ITM Cup Rugby team as well as the Super Rugby Hurricanes, and known to locals as 'the Cake Tin' due to its distinctive shape. Big-name musicians including Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, AC/DC and Bon Jovi have all played

-of-track bias during recurvature and the model tended to weaken the storm too soon. Gilma (07E) 07-11 August 70 knots Track forecast errors were low and skill scores high for this hurricane. Hector (08E) 11-17 August 45 knots Track forecast errors were low for this storm, although the model failed

and significant snowfalls from late February to early March 2018... 2017 Ex-Hurricane Ophelia October On 16 October Ex-Hurricane Ophelia brought very strong winds to the west of the UK and Ireland. This date fell on the exact 30th anniversary of the Great Storm of 1987... Hot, sunny spell June

is fully available from the “Invent” web site and planned to be moved across to the main site in the near future. • RV reported the hurricane forecast had been very accurate this year. One thing it had highlighted though was that despite being an active season, the impact was low, due to very little