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A question about this wind was part of the 2003 National Geographic Bee. [12] Shamal, an Arabic word meaning "north", is a male name in Afghanistan and Kurdistan, and means both "wind" and "north". A sandstorm caused by shamal winds tore apart a U.S. Marine encampment on HBO's Generation Kill TV series about the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The most intense tropical cyclone(s) in the Australian Region were cyclones Gwenda and Inigo. By 10-minute sustained wind speed, the strongest were Cyclone Orson, Cyclone Monica and Cyclone Marcus. Storms with an intensity of 920 hPa (27.17 inHg) or less are listed. Storm information was less reliably documented and recorded before 1985. [6]
Cyclone Freddy in the Australian region and South-West Indian Ocean [13] Most intense (1-minute maximum sustained surface winds) 96.2 m/s (215 mph; 187.0 kn; 346 km/h) October 23, 2015: Hurricane Patricia in the northeast Pacific Ocean [15] Most intense (10-minute maximum sustained winds) 78.2 m/s (175 mph; 152.0 kn; 282 km/h) February 20, 2016
The country has two recorded landfalls by severe cyclonic storms – tropical cyclones with winds of at least 89 km/h (55 mph). The first was a storm in May 1960, and the other was Cyclone Chapala in 2015, the latter being the second-strongest cyclone on record in the Arabian Sea. [ 28 ]
Muifa disrupted over 1.6 million people's lives on Wednesday as it approached China's Zhejiang Province and the global financial hub of Shanghai with intense rain bands and damaging winds.
In the southern hemisphere, the strongest winds are to the left of the eye. That is because cyclonic winds below the equator, spin clockwise. [5] On occasion, strong winds and wind gusts can occur in the rain bands of a tropical cyclone. And inside the eye the winds are relatively calm. At higher altitudes, the winds within a tropical cyclone ...
Helene itself was a record-smashing storm, the strongest ever recorded to make landfall in Florida's Big Bend region. It was also the 4th US Gulf Coast landfalling hurricane of 2024 (joining Beryl ...
Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 June 2013. [14] This is lower than a 1931 measurement of 55 °C (131 °F) recorded in Kebili, Tunisia, but the WMS rejects this measurement as due to an inexperienced operator misreading the ...