#strong-winds — Public Fediverse posts
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5 Fruit Trees That Thrive in Windy Locations, According to Gardening Experts https://www.allforgardening.com/1700794/5-fruit-trees-that-thrive-in-windy-locations-according-to-gardening-experts/ #David #FruitTrees #garden #gardening #GettyImages #PeachTrees #StrongWinds #WindyConditions
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Watch waves from Cyclone Harry flood Italian restaurant in Sicily https://www.diningandcooking.com/2483075/watch-waves-from-cyclone-harry-flood-italian-restaurant-in-sicily/ #CycloneHarry #Italia #Italian #ItalianFood #italiano #italy #sardinia #sicily #StormSurges #StrongWinds #WinterStorm
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#TropicalStormSara to unleash life-threatening #flooding in #CentralAmerica
Tropical Storm Sara will bring an extreme risk to lives and property in Central America where feet of rain may fall before tracking toward #Florida next week.
By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather senior meteorologist
Published Nov 14, 2024
"Rain may pour down for days on the northern parts of #Nicaragua and #Honduras before shifting to eastern parts of #Guatemala, #Belize and southeastern #Mexico this weekend.
"A general 8-12 inches (20-30 cm) will fall in this zone, but a large pocket of 12-18 inches (30-45 cm) of rain is forecast from northern Honduras and Nicaragua, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 50 inches (127 cm).
"'This amount of rain will trigger major #FlashFlooding and #mudslides with the potential for catastrophic loss of life and tremendous damage,' AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter warned.
"Some communities could be cut off for days due to washed-out roads and bridges or blocked by debris flows. Demands for rescue and recovery efforts, as well as food and medical supplies, will be great in the wake of the storm in the region.
"Because of Sara's proximity to the #Caribbean for several days, it will likely not unwind fully. As a result, winds, waves and #StormSurge will blast the coast of #Honduras, eastern #Guatemala, #Belize and Mexico's #Yucatan Peninsula. Sporadic #PowerOutages are likely due to #StrongWinds."
#CentralAmericaWx #ExtremeWx
#ExtremeRains #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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Dozens of school districts will not hold classes on Friday as officials plan to assess damage caused by Thursday evening storms that left windows shattered and trees in roadways.
#News #Weather #HoustonWeather #HoustonAreaWeather #SevereStorms #StrongWinds
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Summary: There may be fewer atmospheric rivers because of climate change, but the ones that occur will be extreme.
NASA: #ClimateChange may lead to bigger #AtmosphericRivers
By Esprit Smith,
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
May 24, 2018"A new NASA-led study shows that #ClimateChange is likely to intensify #ExtremeWeather events known as atmospheric rivers across most of the globe by the end of this century, while slightly reducing their number.
"The new study projects atmospheric rivers will be significantly longer and wider than the ones we observe today, leading to more frequent atmospheric river conditions in affected areas.
"The results project that in a scenario where greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, there will be about 10 percent fewer atmospheric rivers globally by the end of the 21st century,' said the study's lead author, Duane Waliser, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. 'However, because the findings project that the atmospheric rivers will be, on average, about 25 percent wider and longer, the global frequency of atmospheric river conditions -- like #HeavyRain and #StrongWinds -- will actually increase by about 50 percent.'
"The results also show that the frequency of the most intense atmospheric river storms is projected to nearly double.
"Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow jets of air that carry huge amounts of water vapor from the tropics to Earth's continents and polar regions. These 'rivers in the sky' typically range from 250 to 375 miles (400 to 600 kilometers) wide and carry as much water -- in the form of water vapor -- as about 25 Mississippi Rivers. When an atmospheric river makes landfall, particularly against mountainous terrain (such as the Sierra Nevada and the Andes), it releases much of that water vapor in the form of rain or snow.
"These storm systems are common -- on average, there are about 11 present on Earth at any time. In many areas of the globe, they bring much-needed precipitation and are an important contribution to annual freshwater supplies. However, stronger atmospheric rivers -- especially those that stall at landfall or that produce rain on top of snowpack -- can cause disastrous #flooding.
"Atmospheric rivers show up on satellite imagery, including in data from a series of actual atmospheric river storms that drenched the U.S. West Coast and caused severe flooding in early 2017."
Read more: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2740/climate-change-may-lead-to-bigger-atmospheric-rivers/
#Weather #Climate #GlobalWarming #AtmosphericRiver #ExtremeWeather #ExtremeAtmosphericRivers
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UK weather latest: Snow forecast issued by Met Office as temperatures plummet across UK | The Independent
#Snow
#UKWeather
#YellowWarning
#StrongWinds
#ColdTemperatures are expected to plunge, bringing snow to parts of the UK amid yellow warnings for strong winds of up to 55 mph
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/snow-weather-forecast-uk-met-office-b2260886.html
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Strong winds and rough seas on the beach, on Friday, 30 December 2022.
I just love this kind of walk - but I wouldn't want to be out at sea! #roughseas #strongwinds
https://youtu.be/kX4g5feNwJ8