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  Hurricane Diana
In a key step toward improving the prediction of hurricanes, NCAR scientists have reproduced in a computer model the fine-scale structure that drives the birth and strengthening of tropical cyclones.
Diana was chosen because of ample surface data and because a well-defined nontropical low preceded its formation.
Because of the course time resolution, the structures jump around a lot, but the clear definition of the eye just off the coast is visible at the end of the time sequence which is 49 hours long.
www.vets.ucar.edu /vg/Diana   (216 words)

  
  Encyclopedia article: Hurricane Diana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hurricane Diana was the fourth named storm of the 1990 season (additional info and facts about 1990 season).
It began in the Caribbean Sea (An arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream) and made landfall over the Yucatan Peninsula (A peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea) as a tropical storm.
It entered the Bay of Campeche (A bay of the Gulf of Mexico; formed by the Yucatan Peninsula) and strenghtened to a Category 2 (additional info and facts about Category 2) hurricane as it slammed into Veracruz, Mexico (additional info and facts about Veracruz, Mexico).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Hu/Hurricane_Diana.htm   (132 words)

  
 Hurricane Hazel - Your Stories
My particular recollection of Hurricane Hazel was on Friday, October 15, 1954, when I was delivering furniture for a large department store (Eaton's) in the west end of Toronto.
Diana Radley and her brother Bobby were swept away from their mother as the boat they were being rescued in was overturned.
I asked her why, through all of the years, we really never spoke about the hurricane, her answer was simply, "I guess we just wanted to forget that night." Mom and dad lost everything…" More...
www.hurricanehazel.ca /Website/HurricaneHazel/Website.nsf/Webpage/hurricanehazel__your_stories__your_stories?OpenDocument&Language=EN   (1515 words)

  
 Hurricane, Tropical Storm Historical Information
Warming not behind hurricane activity, Gray (Reuters) -Natural changes in ocean currents are to blame for increased Atlantic hurricane activity in recent years, not man-made global warming as many scientists believe, hurricane forecaster William Gray said on Friday., Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:53:42 GMT
Precise hurricane forecasts remain elusive- The National Hurricane Center hopes that within 20 years it will be able to predict within 95 miles where a storm might go when it is two days out.
Hurricane Center Chief, Don't Watch the Line (AP) -...Don't watch the little fl line down the center of the models because there are wide errors and watch for rapidly intensifying storms., Thu, 11 May 2006 08:48:49 GMT
www.hurricane.com /hurricane-pacific/hurricane-seasons.php   (1664 words)

  
 Hurricane Diana - September 1984
the hurricane to the north, allowing it to move in a slow anticyclonic loop just offshore
On the morning of the 13th, Diana finally made landfall as a category
on the 14th and the system nearly regained hurricane strength.
www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov /tropical/rain/diana1984.html   (161 words)

  
 Hurricane Ernesto Updates
A tropical storm warning was in effect from central Florida to Cape Lookout, North Carolina, but a hurricane watch for coastal areas of the Carolinas was lifted as the storm appeared incapable of regaining the 74 mph (119 kph) winds needed for hurricane status.
Hurricane is the official term used for tropical cyclone.
A tropical storm or hurricane watch may be issued for the Keys later today, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
hurricaneernestoupdate.org /blog   (1455 words)

  
 Hurricane Diana (ABC) from the Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Hurricane Diana (ABC) from the Vanderbilt Television News Archive
This information describes a segment of a news broadcast held by the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
The Library of Congress, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, provide support to the work of the Archive.
openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu /1990-8/1990-08-07-ABC-13.html   (238 words)

  
 PSB -> EPS -> Improved Satellite Techniques for Monitoring Coral Reef Bleaching
Hurricane "Diana" moved across the southern Gulf of Mexico during the first week of August.
Tropical disturbances of the busy hurricane season of 1995, that had avoided this region during August and September, brought some relief in October, mixing warmer surface waters with cooler waters beneath the surface.
Bleaching observed during 1995 occurred to some degree at virtually every site under the "hot spots" shown; even the timing of bleaching onset coincided with the weekly "hot spot" charts (not shown).
www.osdpd.noaa.gov /PSB/EPS/SST/icrs_dud.html   (1734 words)

  
 Timeline 1200 to 1299
1226 The last mega hurricane struck the gulf coast of Alabama.
The mega hurricane seems to happen on average every 600 years.
In France, the urban middle-class became a new, economic factor, and King Louis IX tried to control his vassals through his policy of increased centralization.
timelines.ws /1200_1299.HTML   (10351 words)

  
 Hurricane Diana - August 4-14, 1990   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As it moved near Honduras on August 4th, it developed into a tropical depression.
Becoming a tropical storm as it moved northwest, Diana moved through the Yucatan peninsula on a more westerly
Intensifying into a category 2 hurricane, Diana struck Tuxpan on the morning of the 8th.
www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov /tropical/rain/diana1990.html   (197 words)

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