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Due to westward trade winds, hurricanes in the Pacific nearly never head eastward, although several storms have defied the odds and headed eastward. A second factor preventing tropical cyclones from forming during the winter is the occupation of a semi-permanent low-pressure area designated the Aleutian Low between January and April.
Very favorable environmental conditions then allowed Surigae to begin a bout of rapid intensification after becoming a typhoon on April 15; by April 17, the storm reached its peak intensity with 10-minute sustained winds of 220 km/h (140 mph), [nb 1] 1-minute sustained winds of 315 km/h (195 mph), and a minimum pressure of 895 hPa (26.4 inHg).
Tropical Storm Megi (pronounced), known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Agaton, was a weak but deadly tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines in April 2022. It was the third tropical depression, and the second tropical storm of the 2022 Pacific typhoon season .
Hurricane Ernesto continued to send powerful swells toward the U.S. East Coast Monday afternoon, generating "dangerous" beach conditions as the storm moved further out into the Atlantic Ocean ...
Hurricane Beryl has become an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm as it inches closer to the Windward Islands, bringing life-threatening winds and storm surge to the Caribbean, the National ...
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
A tropical storm warning has been posted for parts of the North Carolina and mid-Atlantic coasts for a developing storm that will bring gusty winds, heavy rain, dangerous rip currents and coastal ...
Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani (/ ˈ f ɒ n iː / Foni) [a] was the worst tropical cyclone to strike the Indian state of Odisha since the 1999 Odisha cyclone.The second named storm and the first severe cyclonic storm of the 2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Fani originated from a tropical depression that formed west of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean on 26 April.