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For example, when Typhoon Bopha struck the Philippines less than a year ago, Galeta explains, housands of lives were saved
#Hurricane Isaac Lands on Katrina Eve; Nuclear plant Shutting as Isaac Precaution; Isaac Battering Gulf coast with Fierce Winds Heavy<Head:
Hurricane Isaac Lands on Katrina Eve; Nuclear plant Shutting asisaac Precaution; Isaac Battering Gulf coast with Fierce Winds Heavyrains;
Hurricane Isaac making landfall pounding parts of the Gulf coast with 80 mile-an-hour winds heavy rain.
And really the news of the moment here is this terrifying hurricane in the Gulf coast.
The breaking news Lori this morning Hurricane Isaac beginning to move inland through Southeast Louisiana now
We are still looking at a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour. We continuously receive updates from the National Hurricane Center
and obviously much more often today because the system is making landfall. It did make landfall one landfall yesterday evening as a category one hurricane across Southeastern Louisiana.
We saw a second landfall at about 2: 15 Central time early this morning across Southeastern Louisiana as well.
and some of the strongest winds associated with Hurricane Isaac right now pushing into that city with that--the reason for that is that we have the eye wall moving inland now.
So we are expecting Isaac to remain a hurricane throughout the rest of this morning possibly weakening into a tropical storm as we head into later afternoon hours.
or whether Isaac is a hurricane or a tropical storm. The big story is how slow it's moving.
So take a look of the track by Wednesday 1 p m. still a category one hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour One of the reasons why it's going to take longer to weaken that most typical land falling storms is that we have swampland
And the other big story or the reason why Isaac should be slow to weaken is it is such a large storm system those tropical storm force winds to extend upward from the center of the storm up to 175 miles hurricane force winds up to
As Maria is reporting the worst with Hurricane Isaac maybe still ahead. Well keep in track.
which unbelievable the coincidence of the anniversary of Katrina here with now Hurricane Isaac barreling virtually the same track.
Meantime the hurricane forcing the closure of a nuclear power plant this morning in Louisiana as well. Entergy Corporation saying it shut down of its plants in Colona (ph) Louisiana about 20 miles west of New orleans as a precaution.
And it will have certainly an impact on production oil production in the gulf the hurricane will.
and through the Southeast of United states. The hurricane we do know forced more than 93 percent of oil production to shut down in the region
Of course we'll continue to follow Hurricane Isaac closely for you. But now we're going to just take a look here at politics.
One of the two breaking stories we're following this morning along with the hurricane. But the earnings alert that we're seeing coming in right now real quick for you is from Joy Global the mining equipment company passing along a report of adjusted profit of $1. 82.
so focused obviously on this hurricane political conventions and everything else. But tell us what you make of the markets this morning?
But the breaking story of the morning is Hurricane Isaac as it pounds the city of New orleans. Jeff Flock is on the scene there.
and is able to withstand higher turbulence areas typhoon class extreme wind speeds and lightning beyond the current IEC standard.
As our country faces the growing danger of extreme weather and climate change, it is all too clear that investment in state of the-art-the art clean energy infrastructure is essential for the continued strength of the U s. economy.
an increasing number of extreme weather events including storms and drought and more frequent wild fires,
#Swarms of tiny drones built to spy on hurricanes University of Florida Posted by Cindy Spence-Florida on June 5 2013u.
and through hurricanes to help predict the strength and path of storms. The autonomous craft#some fly and others dart under the waves#can spy on hurricanes at close range without getting blown to bits
while sensors onboard collect and send in real time the data scientists need to predict the intensity and trajectory of storms:
#Our vehicles don t fight the hurricane; we use the hurricane to take us places#says Kamran Mohseni professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida.
The aerial and underwater vehicles just six inches long and about the weight of an ipod Nano can be launched with commands from a laptop hundreds of miles from the eye of a hurricane.
Mohseni and colleagues use mathematical models to predict regions in the atmosphere and ocean that can give the vehicles a free ride toward their destination.
In essence they can go for a fact-gathering ride on hurricane winds and waters. The devices are a departure from current technology
which uses hurricane reconnaissance aircraft to punch through a storm#s eye wall and release dropsondes sensors that free-fall
although just as important considering that the warm moist air on the ocean surface provides fuel for hurricanes.
The new vehicles which can be launched hundreds at a time also reduce the cost of hurricane reconnaissance.#
#If you want to blast through a hurricane you have to build a bigger airplane#Mohseni says.#(
when they hit something a big consideration in hurricane-force winds and waves. A landing strip to test the aerial vehicles isn t necessary Mohseni just tells them to crash picks them up
With proper funding the vehicles could be tested in a real-world hurricane in two or three years.
In instances where many are lost#as in a hurricane#the data gained outweighs the cost of the lost vehicles Mohseni says.
This feature makes them useful for applications beyond hurricanes. Source: University of Floridayou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license n
or storm##a key selling point as climate change spawns increasingly powerful hurricanes and tornadoes. While energy storage systems would cut utilities revenues they would also help them balance supply
The first unit was shipped to Abu dhabi for extended testing in the extreme weather conditions of the Middle east.
researchers analysed air samples from a six-week hurricane-research mission by NASA in 2010.
and after two hurricanes also allowed researchers to study the effects of extreme weather on the atmospheric microbiome.
#Dust devils around stars may help planets grow A dusty tornado around a young star could help solve a lingering conundrum:
One nice hurricane over the sheet could do it Adaptation. A long shot but let's hope!!!Oh yes and an interesting read on past global warming
Train derailments hurricanes and other unfortunate happenings all get simulated at the Texas A&m site.
During Hurricane sandy there were more than 20 million tweets and several hundred thousand pictures. We re developing solutions to quickly identify needles in the haystack and chart them visually.
For example before Typhoon haiyan made landfall in the Philippines we got a request from the United nations to look for all tweets that said I need help
Data on 50,000 systems reveal they stand up to hurricanes, hail Kurtz and NREL's Dirk Jordan have analyzed data from 50,000 solar energy systems installed between 2009 and 2013 and discovered that just 0. 1%of all PV systems reported being affected by damaged or underperforming modules per year,
Despite hurricanes hail, shading, vandalism, and hookup delays, approximately 85%of all systems each year produced 90%or more of the electricity predicted,
Short clip of the Microcube's capacitieshis inspiration came from watching an Alabama tornado in 2011 and observing how the wind was harnessed by a pedestal fan.
which faces extreme weather blowouts, climate change, and increasing demand for renewable energy sources. Today, more than 1. 3 billion people worldwide have no access to an electric grid,
Look at Hurricane sandy, at Hurricane katrina. There a need for an energy solution that goes beyond the traditional approach to doing energy.
A similar concept powers the new missiles used by the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter plane, for instance. Ramjets can move a plane very fast.
Extreme weather hit much of Europe, North america and the Gulf of mexico for several years in the aftermath of the eruption, says the report e
The third type of force field acts a bit like a swirling tornado with a rotating high-pressure field surrounding a low-pressure, quiet"eye"that holds the object in place,
"Bloch skyrmions,"with a hurricane-like spiral pattern of magnetic moments around a perpendicular center, surrounded by magnetic moments oriented in the opposite direction to the center;
#Walk Through The Belly Of A Tornado In Virtual reality On May 20, 2013, a massive tornado slammed into Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24 people and leaving 353 injured,
and causing nearly $2 billion in damage. The tornado was determined to be an EF5, the most destructive type of tornado on the Enhanced Fujita classification scale.
Because tornadoes are lived so short (and also really destructive) it is difficult for scientists to get a good look inside these disasters.
But now, researchers at Virginia Tech are able to walk inside a virtual reality version of the Moore tornado
seeing the disaster from all angles. The researchers built the visualization using radar data taken during the storm.
That way they can better predict how bad the tornado might be before it touches down n
the American Midwest was devastated by heavy and repeated flash flooding as a result of Hurricane Dean and Tropical Storm Erin dumping massive amounts of rain on several states.
Keys to hazard management for major earthquakes, hurricanes, and wildfires include the ability to predict a wide range of possibilities.
which directly impact three-to seven-day weather forecasts in the United states. Cris enables weather forecasters to more accurately predict days in advance the path and severity of weather like tornadoes and snowstorms.
and is particularly effective at improving predictions of high-impact weather such as hurricanes, severe weather outbreaks and winter storms.
#Hawaii's Papaya Growers Struggle in Hurricane Aftermath Hurricane Iselle assault on Hawaii garnered national coverage as the storm approached,
In the event of a natural disaster like Hurricane katrina, these robots could put down sandbag barriers before the storm arrives
The researchers have shown that acoustic vortices act like tornados of sound, causing microparticles to rotate
Like a tornado, what happens to the particles depends strongly on their size. Bruce Drinkwater, Professor of Ultrasonics in the Department of Mechanical engineering and one of the authors of the study
#First-of-its-kind tornado panels installed in Montgomery Home in June, UAB's tornado panels designed to protect against flying debris were installed as an integral component of a safe room in a new construction home in the Montgomery, Alabama area.
Uday Vaidya, Ph d.,professor and chair of UAB's Department of Materials science and engineering, worked with Storm Resistant Systems
The UAB panels were approved by the National Storm Shelter Association to hold up against an EF5 tornado."
"This installation comes after four years of research, testing, approvals and manufacturing, following the 2011 Alabama tornado outbreak.
we saw had a lot of applications for tornado-related activities, "Vaidya said.""During a tornado or hurricane, you get a lot of two-by-fours flying in a home;
a lot of debris is picked up, and it can actually penetrate inside a house. People die from the debris that comes through the walls or other things,
"With an average of more than 1, 000 tornadoes recorded in the U s. each year, it was crucial that something be done to make homes more safe,
"Those tornadoes result in approximately 80 deaths and 1, 500 injuries each year. Our goal was to develop new technology that would help protect individuals against the impact of debris during natural disasters,
devastated in 2013 by Typhoon haiyan, the strongest storm ever recorded on land. The journey took almost two days,
"Although Filipinos are accustomed to typhoons, Finette said Haiyan was different.""You could see it in their emotions
The map also shows rain from tropical cyclones such as Hurricane Arthur and Typhoon Rammasun. Gail Skofronick-Jackson, GPM project scientist said n India they encounter monsoons.
In the United states, it can lead to storms along the West Coast and affect hurricanes and other tropical storms.
One scenario being bandied about is using these CICADAS to monitor extreme weather situations, such as tornadoes. Within a few years,
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