When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Eyewall replacement cycle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewall_replacement_cycle

    The number of storms with eyewall replacement cycles was strongly correlated with the strength of the storm. Stronger typhoons were much more likely to have concentric eyewalls. There were no cases of double eyewalls where the maximum sustained wind was less than 45 m/s or the minimum pressure was higher than 970 hPa.

  3. Maximum sustained wind - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_sustained_wind

    The extent of spiral banding and difference in temperature between the eye and eyewall is used within the technique to assign a maximum sustained wind and pressure. [6] Central pressure values for their centers of low pressure are approximate. The tracking of individual clouds on minutely satellite imagery could be used in the future in ...

  4. Central dense overcast - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_dense_overcast

    The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area, typically 30–65 kilometres (19–40 mi) in diameter. It is surrounded by the eyewall, a ring of towering thunderstorms surrounding its center of circulation. The cyclone's lowest barometric pressure occurs in the eye, and can be as much as 15% lower than the atmospheric pressure outside the storm ...

  5. What does landfall mean? Hurricane terms and how to use ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/does-landfall-mean-hurricane-terms...

    Eye: A calm stretch of space usually less than 50 miles wide, that forms at the center of a tropical cyclone. The center can be completely devoid of clouds or rain, making the center a sort of ...

  6. Dvorak technique - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_technique

    Common developmental patterns seen during tropical cyclone development, and their Dvorak-assigned intensities. The Dvorak technique (developed between 1969 and 1984 by Vernon Dvorak) is a widely used system to estimate tropical cyclone intensity (which includes tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricane/typhoon/intense tropical cyclone intensities) based solely on visible and infrared ...

  7. Wind speed - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_speed

    An anemometer is commonly used to measure wind speed. Global distribution of wind speed at 10m above ground averaged over the years 1981–2010 from the CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ data set [1] In meteorology, wind speed, or wind flow speed, is a fundamental atmospheric quantity caused by air moving from high to low pressure, usually due to changes in ...

  8. Glossary of meteorology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_meteorology

    A brief, sudden increase in the speed of the wind, usually lasting less than 20 seconds. Gusts are more transient than squalls and are followed by a lull or slowing of the wind speed. They are generally only reported by weather stations when the maximum wind speed exceeds the average wind speed by at least 10–15 knots (12–17 mph). gust front

  9. Radius of maximum wind - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radius_of_maximum_wind

    An average value for the RMW of 47 kilometers (29 mi) was calculated as the mean (or average) of all hurricanes with a lowest central atmospheric pressure between a pressure of 909 hectopascals (26.8 inHg) and 993 hectopascals (29.3 inHg). [6] As tropical cyclones intensify, maximum sustained winds increase as the RMW decreases. [7]