Tropical Cyclone Jasmine is still lingering near the island nation of Tonga in the South Pacific and was captured in an infrared image from NASA's Aqua satellite. Jasmine is bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to some of Tonga's islands.
Today a category 4 tropical cyclone (Giovanna) crossed the island of Madagascar. The road from the capital city to our relay station is a mud stream right now and lower parts of the Island are flooded. Schools and businesses are closed.First reports mention a lot of damage. We lost the roofs from two small buildings including the high voltage area. So this forced us to close down the operation this morning completely because of the massive...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today that it has pre-positioned enough emergency supplies to assist 100,000 people in Madagascar, where a tropical cyclone has made landfall, bringing torrential rains and intense winds.
New Delhi, Feb 13 : The 2nd WMO International Conference on Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclone and Climate Change will begin here on Tuesday. The three-day Conference is being organized by the India Meteorological Department, Ministry of Earth Sciences, in ...
The potentially devastating winds, rain and storm tide of Tropical Cyclone Giovanna will be brought to bear on eastern Madagascar Monday. Life and property will be at great risk in and near the direct path of this dangerous storm, which landfall will be ...
In the image, Jasmine's eye as visible as it travels between Vanuatu ... Warnings in New Caledonia cover the entire territory until 6 a.m. local time, and are under a yellow pre-alert. Forecasters believe that Jasmine may have reached its ...
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over strengthening Tropical Storm Jasmine and noticed bands of thunderstorms wrapping into its center as it heads toward Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Vanuatu and New Caledonia are island nations in the South Pacific Ocean.
Tropical Cyclone Jasmine has formed of the tropical Queensland coast. Late Saturday evening a monsoon low reached category 1 status after strengthening over warm Coral Sea waters. This low has slowly tracked eastwards from the Gulf of Carpentaria since mid ...
Tropical cyclone Funso, which has been dumping heavy rains ... Villagers said they are now appealing for food aid following the ruin of their crops. Zinyemba said cyclones can devastate crops in various ways."They can either bring heavy rains or dry ...
But tropical island nations will incurr the highest damage per GDP - up to 37%. The study - The impact of climate change on global tropical cyclone damage - is by Robert Mendelsohn, Kerry Emanuel, Shun Chonabayashi & Laura Bakkensen from Yale ...
A groundbreaking study led by University of Miami (UM) scientist Shimon Wdowinski shows that earthquakes, including the recent 2010 temblors in Haiti and Taiwan, may be triggered by tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons). Wdowinski discussed his findings during a presentation at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. "Very wet rain events are the trigger," said Wdowinski, associate research professor of marine geology and geophysics at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and...Read Full Story
Heavy rains from slow-moving Tropical Storm Lee have begun to drench southern Louisiana.
People along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas are bracing for the impact of Lee, the 12th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Tropical storm warnings have been issued along the coast from Mississippi to Texas and flash flood warnings extended along the Alabama coast into the Florida Panhandle.
The large storm that was churning in the Gulf of Mexico grew as Tropical Storm Lee, on Friday...Read Full Story
The second Atlantic Ocean Hurricane was born today, Sept. 1 as Katia strengthened from a tropical storm in the central Atlantic. NASA's TRMM satellite noticed towering thunderstorms within Katia yesterday which clued forecasters that she would become a hurricane today. NASA's Aqua satellite showed strong thunderstorms around Katia's center today as the hurricane continues to strengthen.
TRMM captured a rainfall image of Tropical Storm Katia on August, 31, 2011 2:29 p.m. EDT. Yellow and...Read Full Story
Advisory:
Official information issued by tropical cyclone warning centers describing all tropical cyclone watches and warnings in effect along with details concerning tropical cyclone locations, intensity and movement, and precautions that should be taken.
Cyclone:
A close approach of a tropical cyclone to a particular location. Eye:
The roughly circular area of comparatively light winds that encompasses the center of a severe tropical cyclone. Eyewall/Wall Cloud:
An organized band or...Read Full Story
...LITTLE CHANGE IN THE POSITION OR INTENSITY OF NATE DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS... ...KATIA TURNING NORTHWARD BETWEEN BERMUDA AND THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES... ...MARIA RACING WESTWARD ACROSS THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC...TROPICAL STORM WATCHES ISSUED FOR THE LEEWARD ISLANDS... History teaches that a lack of hurricane awareness and preparation are common threads among all major hurricane disasters. By knowing your vulnerability and what actions you should take, you can reduce the effects...Read Full Story
A community portal about Tropical cyclones with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A tropical cyclone is a storm system fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor in it condenses. The term describes the storm's origin in the tropics and its cyclonic nature, which means that its circulation is...more
A community portal about Tropical cyclones with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A tropical cyclone is a storm system fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor in it condenses. The term describes the storm's origin in the tropics and its cyclonic nature, which means that its circulation is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Tropical cyclones are distinguished from other cyclonic windstorms such as nor'easters, European windstorms, and polar lows by the heat mechanism that fuels them, which makes them "warm core" storm systems. Depending on their location and strength, there are various terms by which tropical cyclones are known, such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, and tropical depression.