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The scale used for a particular tropical cyclone depends on what basin the system is located in; with for example the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale and the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scales both used in the Western Hemisphere. All of the scales rank tropical cyclones using their maximum sustained winds, which are either ...
This year's warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico helped Milton swiftly become a powerful hurricane, with the U.S. National Hurricane Center calling it the third-fastest intensifying Atlantic storm on ...
Hurricane Milton is set to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday in the Tampa, Fla., region after undergoing a rapid intensification this week that saw it become the third-fastest storm ...
It is calculated by summing the square of tropical cyclones' maximum sustained winds, as recorded every six hours, but only for windspeeds of at least tropical storm strength (≥ 34 kn; 63 km/h; 39 mph); [4] the resulting figure is divided by 10,000 to place it on a more manageable scale. [2]
Hurricane forecasting has made tremendous strides in recent decades, but there is still a disconnect when it comes to the general public's understanding and awareness of forecasting elements ...
A type Ia supernova explosion gives off 1– 2 × 10 44 joules of energy, which is about 2.4–4.8 hundred billion yottatons (24–48 octillion (2.4– 4.8 × 10 28) megatons) of TNT, equivalent to the explosive force of a quantity of TNT over a trillion (10 12) times the mass of the planet Earth.