Hurricane force winds: Hurricane force winds weaken the farther you move away from the eye.
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Rainfall expected: 6 to 10 inches Storm surge expected: 63 to 11 feet Pensacola Hurricane force winds: Not expected to reach hurricane force Worst conditions: 12 p.m.
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The span of its hurricane-force winds The area covered by Florence's hurricane-force winds has doubled -- meaning far more people will get blasted with winds 74 mph or greater.
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Hurricane-force winds extended up to 15 miles from the centers of both Jose and Katia, while hurricane-force winds stretched a full 50 miles from Irma's center, according to the NHC.
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All nuclear plants, which are built to withstand hurricane-force winds, have rules in place that require they shut some period of time before hurricane-force winds are expected to reach the site.
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Hurricane force winds were up to 180 miles per hour.
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Keep in mind #hurricane force winds begin at 74 mph.
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Sustained hurricane-force winds spreading onto the middle Texas coast . . .
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How could one hurricane force so many to leave their homes?
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Hurricane force wind gusts are expected to peak around 4 a.m.
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Buildings can be raised and designed to resist hurricane-force winds.
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Another threatens to bring hurricane-force winds to the West Coast.
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It whipped Rocky Mountain and Southwestern states with hurricane-force winds.
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Some areas also saw the first of the hurricane-force winds.
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Officials warn hurricane-force gusts will likely last until early tomorrow.
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"The house was designed to withstand hurricane-force winds," he said.
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The cutting edge design is also built to withstand hurricane-force winds.
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Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 60 miles from that center.
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Wind gusts reached hurricane-force (74 mph) in parts of New England.
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Wind gusts reached hurricane force (74 miles per hour) in multiple locations.
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Still of lizard clinging to an experimental perch in hurricane-force winds.
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Hurricane-force wind extended up to 60 miles from the storm's center.
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Another threatens to bring hurricane-force winds to the West Coast. nyti.
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Winds gusts close to hurricane force are forecast, mainly for New England.
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Winds will become even stronger into Friday evening, perhaps approaching hurricane force.
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Incredibly, at 4753 mph (130 km/h), the winds reached hurricane-force levels.
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In Chesapeake Bay, winds could go up to 65 mph—practically hurricane-force.
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The design company Deltec manufactures circular homes that can withstand hurricane-force winds.
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Forecasters said hurricane-force winds would begin hitting the Keys by daybreak Sunday.
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Wind gusts of hurricane force were reported at Orlando International airport, it said.
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Tropical storms generate winds between 39 and 13 mph, just below hurricane force.
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Its hurricane-force winds extend 60 miles from its center (Irma's extended around 80).
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The region with hurricane force winds or greater encompass roughly 9,000 sq miles. pic.twitter.
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Boiling water to snow in hurricane force winds with a temp of -22017°F!
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"It's characterized by storms every single day, with almost hurricane force winds," noted Campbell.
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Even some of the structures designed to survive hurricane-force storms took a hit.
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Hurricane-force winds could be felt as far as 2680 miles from the center.
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Still, hurricane force winds of as much as 90 miles per hour could occur.
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Take a look at how Deltec's properties are able to withstand hurricane-force winds.
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EST (1100 GMT) and hurricane-force winds are possible later today, the NHC said.
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Hurricane-force winds had expanded to 23 miles (95 km) from the storm's core.
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Hurricane-force winds were extending about 40 miles from the center of the storm.
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Hurricane-force winds are expected in some coastal areas in Northern California and Oregon.
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On Tuesday, hurricane-force winds stretched 40 miles out from the center, Miller said.
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Hurricane-force winds topping 74 mph extend 45 miles out from the storm's center.
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Hurricane-force wind gusts of 75 mph are possible, the National Weather Service said.
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The Chinook winds gusting off the Canadian Rockies are foreboding this afternoon, at hurricane force.
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The storm could cause damage to cotton as hurricane-force winds toss the cotton bolls.
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Hurricane-force wind was expected to arrive by Thursday night, the National Hurricane Center said.
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But by Thursday morning, hurricane-force winds extended 80 miles beyond the center of Florence.
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The company last shut Brunswick due to hurricane force winds in the 1990s, she said.
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Family members collect belongings after hurricane force winds destroyed their house in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.
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But with hurricane-force winds lashing most of the state, they were forced to stay put.
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That will mean not only more hurricane-force winds, but snow in higher elevations of California.
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Hurricane force wind gusts will be possible Saturday along the Eastern Seaboard, with moderate flooding likely.
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Hurricane-force winds on Thursday extended up to 25 miles from the center of the storm.
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Winds of 74 mph -- hurricane force -- reached Key West late Saturday, the National Weather Service said.
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Ignoring catastrophic risks leaves us hanging from a thread in the face of hurricane-force winds.
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Across all of the damage zone, rescue operations will begin when the hurricane-force winds subside.
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Some expressed alarm that he might inspire someone, somewhere, to fire ammunition into hurricane-force winds.
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Florence may also create "life-threatening flash flooding" and "damaging hurricane-force winds" the Center said.
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Tropical Storm Ileana was trailing John to the southeast but wasn't forecast to reach hurricane force.
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Shutdowns also were possible at two more plants in the path of predicted hurricane-force winds.
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Hurricane-force winds caused palm trees to bend at Faria State Beach in Ventura, CA on Thursday.
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Hurricane-force winds blew waters offshore, leaving several manatees stranded in the mud, according to news reports.
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They even included a handy graphic detailing how bullets come back when shot into hurricane force winds.
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Vehicle Assembly Building in 250, after Hurricane-force winds ripped off a significant chunk of outer paneling.
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The resurgent system raises questions about the region's ability to weather hurricane-force winds and storm surge.
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Mars has wind, though not as powerful as hurricane-force blasts here on Earth, according to NASA.
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Hurricane-force winds blew embers from the park into Gatlinburg and downed power lines, sparking more fires.
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The high rises along Waikiki Beach would be vulnerable to damage if hurricane force winds move onshore.
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This map shows the most likely predicted track and the likelihood of hurricane force winds from Dorian.
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The hurricane-force winds of the storm grounded many other flights, knocked out power and caused flooding.
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Hurricane Irma weakened to a tropical storm on Monday, but is still producing near hurricane-force winds.
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Storm surge, hurricane force winds, and extensive flooding are forecast in the Gulf Coast region into the weekend.
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Forecasters expected winds to return to hurricane force of more than 74 mph (119 kph) by Sunday evening.
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Hurricane-force winds have been blowing through Southern California, stoking the fires that are raging through the area.
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"Pressure is rising, winds gusting to hurricane force," Brandon Fling of the NWS Key West wrote on Twitter.
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That means the storm will pack a powerful punch, with winds that could whip at hurricane-force strength.
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Even though it's not a hurricane, when we talk hurricane-force winds, how strong will those typically be?
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Those hurricane force winds would be in a very small area, right around the center of the storm.
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Irma's hurricane force winds stretch over 115 miles, and its tropical storm force winds stretch over 300 miles.
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Hurricane warnings are issued to areas that are expected to experience hurricane-force winds (at least 21 mph).
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Dewey Beach, Delaware, and Virginia's Langley Air Force Base both reported 83-mph winds, just over hurricane force.
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To put this in context, he said hurricane-force winds are thought to begin at about 75 mph.
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That slow pace means more rainfall and a longer period of hurricane-force winds wherever the storm goes.
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A well-known forecast model predicts Dorian will pack hurricane-force winds when it reaches the Florida Peninsula.
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The National Hurricane Center noted that there had been multiple observations of hurricane-force winds in St. Thomas.
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NAM computer model simulation showing near-hurricane force winds offshore, blowing toward the New Jersey coast early Sunday morning.
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Rochester saw winds over hurricane-force, with a peak gust of 81 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
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The winds have already exceeded hurricane force in some high elevation areas, with gusts above 75 miles per hour.
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That track would cause severe damage on both islands, due to the storm's large swath of hurricane force winds.
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Its hurricane force winds extended about 0003 or 60 miles out from its center, whereas Irma's extended around 80.
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At its peak, Dennis produced individual waves at least 112 feet tall, along with sustained winds of hurricane force.
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I am a man-size cavity, tender and susceptible to perceiving any tickling breeze as a hurricane-force wind.
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Hurricane force winds are 74 miles per hour and above, but Irma's strongest winds have been much more powerful.
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Hermine will once again have hurricane-force winds again Sunday, though it is classified as a post-tropical cyclone.
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Wind gusts at slightly below hurricane-force (50 mph) levels are likely to appear along the coast on Saturday.
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We live just west of Raleigh, N.C., but we had hurricane force winds, massive damage and weekslong power outages.
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Its hurricane force winds extended about 50 or 60 miles out from its center, whereas Irma's extended around 80.
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In Sonoma County, the offshore winds exceeded hurricane force, gusting as high as 14 miles per hour, overnight Sunday.
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Life-threatening storm surge, hurricane force winds, and heavy rainfall are expected along the northeastern Gulf Coast, it added.
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It's still producing hurricane force winds across areas of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, CNN meteorologist Haley Brink said.
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Hurricane force winds are forecast 100 to 300 miles offshore due east of Hatteras, North Carolina, and Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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Hurricane-force winds The storm is bringing hurricane winds to the Rockies and as far away as Amarillo, Texas.
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The radio in the hotel shuttle from the airport had warned of hurricane-force gales, possible flooding, thunder, lightning.
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Winds will be near tropical storm-force (over 39 mph+) with gusts as strong as hurricane-force (74 mph+).
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Flash floods have damaged an already fragile landscape, as near hurricane-force winds downed power lines along the coast.
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However, life threatening storm surge, Hurricane force winds, and heavy rainfall is expected all along the northeastern Gulf Coast. pic.twitter.
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ICYMI: in response to hurricane force winds & dynamic fetch, altimeter flying aboard Sentinel-3A detected significant waves to ≈20163ft/16m!
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Mr. Hall said it would bring hurricane-force winds and a dangerous storm tide that could lead to severe flooding.
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"Very destructive hurricane force winds are expected from this evening," said the Tongan Metservice as it issued a hurricane warning.
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Hurricane-force winds extend about 0003 miles from the center, with tropical storm-force winds reaching 2000 miles, Graham said.
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This ring of storms, known as the eye wall, is what brought Category 5 hurricane-force winds to these islands.
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First you file your paperwork in a large canvas tent, and fans at hurricane force to keep down the heat.
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With Sandy, it wasn&apost hurricane-force winds that wreaked havoc in the Big Apple, but the resulting storm surge.
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On New Year's Day in 1995, hurricane-force winds were blowing in the North Sea, off the coast of Norway.
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Klaus, which killed 26 and left many millions without power, hit Western Europe in 2009 backed by hurricane force winds.
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Even though the storm remains offshore, hurricane-force winds can extend as far as 60 miles out from the center.
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Andrew's hurricane force winds were only about 63 miles (50 kilometers) wide and so was its swath of utter destruction.
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While it has been downgraded to a post-tropical storm, Dorian is still sustaining hurricane-force winds around 75 mph.
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Oravec said that hurricane-force wind gusts of about 75 mph (120 kph) have been reported in across the southeast.
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Numerous cities up the coast declared states of emergency and issued mandatory evacuations as hurricane-force winds battered the coast.
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Structures, such as this one in Swansboro, collapsed as the storm surge and hurricane force winds whipped through the area.
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The system likely will batter the island with hurricane-force and tropical-storm-force winds Wednesday evening into Thursday morning.
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Blizzard conditions are predicted, too, since winds will be as strong as tropical-storm-force, with gusts at hurricane-force.
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"Life-threatening storm surge, hurricane force winds, and heavy rainfall expected along the northeastern Gulf Coast," the Miami-based forecaster said.
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What we're watching: the city of Wilmington, which has been battered for hours by tropical storm force and hurricane force winds.
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" While hurricane-force winds have diminished, Duke said, "We are not out of the woods yet, not by a long shot.
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Even so it can still produce hurricane-force winds, with gusts reaching 175km an hour off the south-west of Ireland.
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Category 4 Hurricane Nicole is blasting the island with hurricane force winds and a storm surge of 22016 to 22 feet.
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The strongest Santa Ana winds in the south may bring gusts near hurricane force on Tuesday, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said.
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Gordon made landfall on Tuesday night near the Alabama-Mississippi border with near hurricane-force winds, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Maximum sustained winds of 185 mph, with hurricane-force winds extending 60 miles (95 km) from the storm's center, forecasters said.
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New England will also take a pounding, where Maine could see a foot of snow and hurricane-force winds, AccuWeather forecast.
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The high death toll could be attributed to reasons ranging from the labyrinthine roads to the hurricane-force gusts of wind.
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Nate's sustained winds increased late Friday to hurricane force, and by Saturday morning they had reached a maximum of 90 m.p.h.
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On August 14, the 48-foot sailing vessel Northabout was in a sheltered location north of Siberia, battling hurricane-force winds.
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According to an alert published by the Cuban Civil Defense, meteorologists warned affected residents that they could experience hurricane-force winds.
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Saba, only 20 miles away, didn't have hurricane-force winds and yet we had the strongest winds in several decades here.
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Hurricane force winds from Irma could devastate an already struggling Florida orange industry, commodities specialist James Cordier told CNBC on Friday.
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Oh, yes, it's real The ferocious winter storm that pummeled the Midwest with hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions was awful.
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"It's still packing the same hurricane-force winds and potential for flooding and is still as deadly as a hurricane," she said.
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"The FL panhandle needs to be prepared for a direct hit with sustained hurricane force winds," Scott wrote on Twitter on Monday.
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Snow and hurricane force winds slapped the 6,288-foot-tall peak on Monday, with winds topping out at 109 miles per hour.
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Go deeper: California utility says intentional blackouts could be needed for 10 years In photos: California wildfires spread by hurricane force winds
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Wind gusts of hurricane force -- at least 74 mph -- were reported at a weather station about 7 miles north of Simi Valley.
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FPL, the biggest power company in Florida, changed its plan because hurricane force winds are no longer expected to reach either site.
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It brought with it hurricane-force wind gusts, widespread flooding and white-out conditions to multiple states from Colorado to the Dakotas.
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Hurricane force winds are expected to be felt everywhere from Key West to Jacksonville, and possibly northward into Georgia and South Carolina.
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It was expected to strike the U.S. Gulf Coast Saturday with hurricane force winds and rain, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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The 203-year-old pop singer felt safe on the 25th floor of a high-rise built to withstand hurricane-force winds.
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It will bring hurricane-force winds to parts of Massachusetts, with winds of over 24 miles per hour expected on Cape Cod.
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It will bring hurricane-force winds to parts of Massachusetts, with winds of over 80 miles per hour expected on Cape Cod.
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Disney said the island was not hit by Dorian's hurricane-force winds but experienced winds at the level of a tropical storm.
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It dropped snow from Ohio to New England, flooded homes and ripped down trees and power poles with sometimes hurricane-force winds.
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Coastal areas of Iceland could see hurricane-force winds Friday, with gusts over 124 mph (200 kph) warned the Icelandic met office.
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Forecasters also said storm's extreme size meant it could batter the East Coast with hurricane-force wind for nearly a full day.
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It slammed much of the Northeast with heavy snow and rain, prompting significant coastal flooding and hurricane-force gusts in New England.
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The National Weather Service has issued a hurricane force wind warning for most of the shore from Friday afternoon until early Saturday.
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Hurricane-force winds piled snow against homes, and residents woke Saturday to drifts that completely covered their cars and blocked first floors.
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Wind gusts of hurricane force -- at least 74 mph -- were reported at a weather station about seven miles north of Simi Valley.
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It'll bring blizzard conditions and the risk of flooding and hurricane-force winds to the Rockies, Upper Midwest and central-northern Plains.
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North Carolina is already experiencing flooding, according to CNN, with an area of 15,000 square miles expected to suffer hurricane force winds.
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These "hurricane-force winds" were expected to "drive the fire in a way that is unimaginable," Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said.
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Wind gusts of hurricane force -- at least 74 mph -- were reported at a weather station about seven miles north of Simi Valley. Gov.
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Wildfires Hurricane-force winds are ripping across parts of California, stoking the more than 20 wildfires that have ravaged the state for days.
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As the first hurricane-force wind gusts began hitting parts of the Florida Keys, President Donald Trump tweeted about the storm's pending landfall.
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The diameter of hurricane force winds around the center of Irma was 126 miles as of Friday morning, according to meteorologist Ryan Maue.
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"Residents along the Mozambique/Tanzania border should make preparations for storm surge along the coasts, heavy rainfall, and hurricane-force winds," NASA warned.
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Scotland and Northern Ireland have cancelled trains, flights and ferries and closed some roads and bridges due to the near hurricane force winds.
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Much of New England was under a high wind while hurricane force wind warnings were in effect for the coastal and offshore waters.
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At some point this weekend, the entire state could see at least hurricane-force gusts of 2185 mph and above, CNN's Myers said.
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In Florida and southern Georgia, more than 8 million people face hurricane-force winds topping 74 mph, said Ryan Maue of WeatherBell Analytics.
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ET on Friday, Dorian was a Category 1 storm bringing hurricane conditions and "wind gusts near hurricane force" in parts of North Carolina.
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Earlier this month, CBS News reported that rising Pacific Ocean temperatures have increased the risk that hurricane-force winds could hit Southern California.
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Winds during these events exceeded hurricane force (75 mph), but the power line finding likely clears the way for lawsuits against PG&E.
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Nuclear plants have procedures that require they shut a safe amount of time before hurricane force winds are expected to reach the site.
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The size of hurricane-force winds doubled over 21 hours from 30 to 60 miles across, the National Hurricane Center said Monday afternoon.
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Forecasters said that winds were expected to reach 100 miles per hour in places — well above hurricane force, which starts at 74 m.p.h.
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Its hurricane-force winds extended up to 25 miles while tropical storm-force winds could be felt 80 miles from the storm's center.
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However Irma is still producing wind gusts which are close to hurricane force and the storm is currently moving its way across Florida.
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Tornadoes and hurricane-force winds A tornado just missed the National Weather Service's office in West Paducah, Kentucky, early Thursday, the service said.
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Flying salt spray and hurricane-force winds changed the green islands of the Caribbean to brown in Hurricane Irma's wake, new satellite photos reveal.
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In an update posted Saturday afternoon, the NWS said it expects major, hurricane force winds to reach the Florida Keys by early Sunday morning.
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When hurricane-force winds are whipping violently over the ocean, the safest place for seabirds may be right in the eye of the storm.
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In Transit The voyage of Anthem of the Seas was cut short after sailing through a strong winter storm that produced hurricane-force winds.
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While Hurricane Florence in its peak intensity affected around 60 times that area — 15,000 square miles — with hurricane-force winds, it killed 53 people.
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The company also had said it planned to shut both reactors at St Lucie about 24 hours before hurricane force winds reached that plant.
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Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Sergio was strengthening in the Pacific and was forecast to reach hurricane force, though it posed no immediate threat to land.
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The storm has maximum sustained winds of 22010 mph, with hurricane-force winds (at least 21 mph) extending 23 miles out from its center.
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Hurricane force winds only extend 15 miles from the center of the storm but tropical storm-force winds reach out 140 miles (225 km).
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"As a preacaution, reactors will be shut down at least two hours before the onset of hurricane force winds," Duke's Catherine Butler told CNBC.
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"Ophelia is expected to reach the British Isles as a powerful extra-tropical cyclone with hurricane force winds," he Miami-based hurricane center said.
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The storm threatens the islands with upwards of 23 feet of rain, deadly surf of 230 feet or higher, and intense hurricane force winds.
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More watches and even warnings could be necessary for other islands over the next couple of days, potentially including warnings for hurricane force winds.
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Trump retweeted a post from aide Dan Scavino Jr. that included a Fox News report that hurricane-force winds had hit the Florida Keys.
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Wind gusts of hurricane force — at least 74 mph — were reported at a weather station about seven miles north of Simi Valley on Thursday.
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Currents turn to roaring rivers if the tides are timed incorrectly, anchors drag along rocky bottoms, and winds blow up channels with hurricane force.
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Irma churned north into Georgia on Monday as a tropical storm, after lashing Florida with hurricane-force winds and pummeling islands in the Caribbean.
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As a result, the coastal Carolinas will suffer more than 24 hours of hurricane-force winds and storm surge, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said.
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Hurricane-force winds can snap off the cane crop but another problem is if the crop gets knocked down and stuck in the mud.
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The storm is now expected to move northward and possibly bring hurricane-force winds to Florida Monday night before moving up the east coast.
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Hurricane-force winds extend out 60 miles from the center, while tropical storm-force winds extend out 175 miles, the National Hurricane Center said.
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"Plant procedures call for the reactors to be shut down before the anticipated onset of hurricane-force winds," agency spokesman Joey Ledford told CNN.
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Damaging hurricane-force winds are likely along portions of the coasts of South Carolina and North Carolina, and a Hurricane Warning is in effect.
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Hurricane force winds will also extend well inland across portions of the Florida Panhandle, southern Georgia, and southeast Alabama as Michael moves inland. 3.
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EDT, maximum winds were listed at 80 mph (130 kph), with hurricane-force winds extending up to 45 miles (75 km) from the storm's center.
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Isolated hurricane-force gusts of more than 36 mph were likely in parts of the Northeast, including Long Island, New York and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Oklahoma City and Texas cities such as Lubbock, Amarillo and Abilene could get pounded with baseball-sized hail and hurricane-force winds, the NWS said.
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A weather station at Tyndall Air Force Base reported sustained hurricane force winds gusting to 2105 mph as the center of the storm roars ashore.
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The hurricane center warned that the Carolinas and Virginia will experience an "extremely dangerous" triple threat of storm surges, freshwater flooding, and hurricane-force winds.
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As of 5 pm ET, the National Hurricane Center said the storm's hurricane force wind field had doubled in size in the past 12 hours.
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Hurricane force wind gusts are the most imminent danger for most, with storm surges near the coasts and sustained high winds also posing a threat.
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Though rainfall would be imminent regardless, as of Friday afternoon it was still unclear if Barry would develop into a storm with hurricane force winds.
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Hurricane force winds can extent up to 35 miles (55 km) from the center and tropical storm-force winds up to 105 miles (165 km).
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Wellfleet, Massachusetts, located on the outer part of Cape Cod, recorded a wind gust of 79 miles per hour, which was greater than hurricane force.
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The hurricane's sheer size means it could batter the U.S. East Coast with hurricane-force winds for nearly a full day, according to weather forecasters.
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Even if Dorian does not make landfall, hurricane-force winds are still expected threaten the coastline from central Florida to North Carolina, reports NBC News.
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The storm has hurricane force winds extending 45 miles in either direction from the center, with tropical storm force winds stretching 150 miles each way.
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In south Georgia, residents were warned on Sunday to expect six hours of continuous hurricane-force winds until midday Monday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
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Lorenzo's hurricane-force winds currently extend 90 miles outward from the storm's center and its tropical storm-force winds extend 255 miles out, it said.
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The storm's winds may have weakened, the hurricane center said but emphasized the "area of the hurricane-force winds has more than doubled" since Saturday.
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Rainfall expected: 21 to 22 inches Storm surge expected: 22 to 24 feet Destin Hurricane force winds (26 mph+): Around noon Worst conditions: 28 p.m.
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Hurricane-force winds from the compact hurricane extend only 10 miles from the center, with tropical storm force winds stretching only up to 35 miles.
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Especially when the song itself is eight and a half minute of hurricane-force rage, regret, and recrimination, propelled by drummer Ryan Parrish's percussive catharsis?
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It is uncertain at this time if the winds from Michael are expected to still be at hurricane force when they reach the Farley site.
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The storm's hurricane-force winds extended about 270 miles (2500 kilometers) from the eye, and tropical storm-force winds as far as 000 miles (2000 kilometers).
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"Irma is a reasonably fat storm, compared to Harvey," Young said, threatening hurricane force winds across the east half of Florida even if it misses landfall.
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Hurricane-force winds are forecast to batter the US Virgin Islands, Vieques, and Culebra through Wednesday afternoon; and the rest of Puerto Rico through Wednesday night.
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At the center of the winding queue was debris from the gas station's metal canopy, thrown to the ground by Irma's hurricane-force winds on Sunday.
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Rapidly intensifying low pressure is forecast to develop hurricane force winds on Thu as it lifts northward along the outer portion of our offshore zones. pic.twitter.
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Sudden winds reaching near-hurricane force caught people off guard, separated them from loved ones and forced thousands down tiny, winding mountain roads in pure panic.
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Forecasters said hurricane-force winds extended up to 35 miles from the center of the storm and tropical storm-force winds extended up to 150 miles.
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The shade of red on the map represents the probability of an area experiencing sustained hurricane-force winds exceeding 74 mph within the next five days.
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But the hurricane's sheer size meant it could batter the U.S. East Coast with hurricane-force winds for nearly a full day, according to weather forecasters.
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Hurricane-force winds of 21.2 mph (over 21.44 kp/h) whipped roofs clean off buildings, ripped trees from the ground and forced evacuations along the coast.
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This system comes after a storm moved through Oregon and Washington on Monday, with heavy rains, hurricane-force wind gusts and heavy snows in the mountains.
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The NHC expects "life-threatening" storm surges and "hurricane-force winds" along parts of Florida's cost through the middle of the week, it said Monday morning.
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Live, updated maps showing where the storm has made landfall and how much of the state has been hit by tropical-storm- and hurricane-force winds.
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Right now, hurricane-force winds extend about 50 miles from the center, and the storm is expected to grow in size in the next few days.
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The size of the hurricane-force winds has doubled over the past 48 hours despite the top wind speed weakening from 130 mph to 105 mph.
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"It's tough for people in the shantytowns," he said, because their plywood houses are not built to withstand hurricane-force winds and are vulnerable to flooding.
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Since Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys early on Sunday, bringing hurricane-force winds to much of South Florida, parts of two cranes collapsed. nyti.
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The meteorological bomb is affecting parts of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada with hurricane-force winds, hefty snowfall totals and whiteout conditions all but eliminating visibility.
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"You probably won't launch hurricane-force projectiles at your truck bed … but it's nice to know you can," says voiceover actor Will Arnett during the ad.
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As the system moved across Texas Wednesday, it brought winds near hurricane force, kicking up a major dust storm that sent dirt, debris and tumbleweeds flying.
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Rainfall expected: 1 to 2 inches Storm surge expected: 2 to 4 feet Tallahassee Hurricane force winds: Only when the center is passing around 6 p.m.
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While Dorian is expected to weaken to a post-tropical cyclone in the next 2000 hours, scientists believe it will maintain hurricane-force strength until Sunday.
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"Micron continues to have near-hurricane force winds at its back blowing the firm forward," Eric Schiffer, chief executive officer of private equity firm Patriarch said.
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Florence is expected to go move slowly as it approaches North and South Carolina, whipping hurricane-force winds and dumping relentless rain at least through Saturday.
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Letter From America Inside the hurricane-force partisanship swirling around the capital, Washington has retained a singular bulwark for mainstream consensus: Federal Reserve stewardship of economic policy.
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The color gives an estimate of the likelihood of that area experiencing hurricane force winds — meaning greater than 74 miles per hour — over the next five days.
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The color gives an estimate of the likelihood of that area experiencing hurricane-force winds — meaning greater than 74 miles per hour — over the next five days.
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Hurricane-force wind gusts of 2000 mph were also reported Wednesday at a weather station in the mountains outside of Malibu, according to the National Weather Service.
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Hurricane-force winds are extending outwards by up to 80 milesfrom the centre of the storm, and tropical storm-force winds are extending out to 220 miles.
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" -- Cora Lewis Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center downgraded Irma to a tropical storm, while noting it is still producing some wind gusts "to near hurricane force.
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Traveling to the northwest at 12 miles per hour, the storm some 70 miles wide in its hurricane force winds, is now projected to pass over Tampa.
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Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 753 miles (275 kilometers) from Irma's center and tropical storm-force winds extended outward up to 212 miles (219 kilometers).
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Driven by hurricane-force winds, the fire grew at a rate of one football field every three seconds when it first ignited, CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said.
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Hurricane-force winds with gusts up to 280 mph could hit the state Saturday night into Sunday, adding to the already fire-prone conditions in the state.
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The storm still packed hurricane force winds as far as 90 miles (150 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds 240 miles (390 km) away.
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"Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles (110 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles (280 km)."
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The storm is expected to remain strong as it travels up the coast, unleashing hurricane-force (74 mph+) winds on Georgia and South Carolina by early Saturday.
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Winds gusted to hurricane force, or 75 miles per hour, across Cape Cod and the Islands, and high winds raked everywhere from the Carolinas to Nova Scotia.
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Webber, Fitzgerald and the other two crew members – Richard Livesey and Ervin Maske – battled 60-foot waves, hurricane-force winds and freezing temperatures to find the survivors.
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Hurricane-force winds expected up to 30 miles from the center of the storm, while tropical storm-force winds reach up to 105 miles from the center.
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Utility crews are working to restore electricity service to about 200,000 homes and businesses in western New York after hurricane-force winds toppled trees and power lines.
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Events like this can bring winds at or above hurricane force, and knock out power to hundreds of thousands of people, depending on their path and intensity.
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This scenario would worsen the storm's impacts across the eastern portion of the state, extending hurricane-force winds inland and potentially increasing the storm surge flooding problem.
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The region saw powerful gusts of 210 mph, making it easier for the blazes to spread, with hurricane-force gusts of 250 mph reported in Sonoma County.
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Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 272 miles (1.23 kilometers) from the center, and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 21.2 miles (21.44 kilometers).
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The storm's tropical storm–force winds could reach the coast by Wednesday night, and hurricane-force winds could reach coastal locations Thursday and Friday, the Post reported.
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Tropical storm–force winds could reach the coast by Wednesday night, and hurricane-force winds could reach by Thursday night into Friday, according to The Washington Post.
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Instead of facing hours of hurricane force winds and a foot or more of rain, Honolulu will experienced periods of gusty showers for the next few days.
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Dorian is a powerful but small hurricane with hurricane-force winds Sunday only extending 29 miles to the west, but they are expecting to grow a bit.
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" The National Weather Service said the storm could bring "a triple-threat of dangers" including a "life-threatening storm surge," heavy rains and "devastating hurricane-force winds.
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The island was rattled by hurricane-force winds for more than 48 hours as Dorian lingered over the islands, pounding the same battered places again and again.
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"While the hurricane force winds have diminished, I want to stress that we are not out of the woods yet," Elaine Duke said at a news conference.
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Most of those reactors, however, are located well inland from the coast and are not expected to experience hurricane force winds, according to the latest NHC forecast.
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Elgort's message came as the powerful snowstorm that's been nicknamed the "bomb cyclone" continued to pummel the Northeast with hurricane-force winds and blizzard warnings, according to CNN.
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Bring hurricane-force winds for more than a day to a swath of land about 350 miles in diameter or greater, extending well inland from the landfall point.
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Recklessly swirling around the drawing room in a backless green frock, her blond hair a tangle of Medusa curls, Ilona is the hurricane force within this teacup drama.
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Hurricane classification is based on wind speed; while hurricane-force winds can cause damage, most of Harvey's destruction has been from all the rain it's dumped on Texas.
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Typically, over land, with these types of systems there could be hurricane-force wind gusts that could be 20133 mph or greater along the southeastern New England coast.
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Driven by hurricane-force winds, the fire grew at a rate of one football field every three seconds when it first ignited Wednesday, CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said.
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This year, similar hurricane-force winds were driving the flames in Northern California, with the highest gusts in Sonoma county reaching a whopping 93 mph Sunday, meteorologists said.
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Everything about the storm will be life-threatening, the National Hurricane Center warns: hurricane-force winds, flash flooding, landslides, and storm surge are predicted along the storm's path.
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Click here to view original GIFThose impacts include tropical storm force (39 mph+) and hurricane force (2000 mph+) winds, heavy rainfall, and surges of up to 25 feet.
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This would bring hurricane-force winds to much of eastern and even parts of central Florida on Thursday into Friday, along with storm surge flooding at the coast.
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The storm will also pass just north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, bringing hurricane force winds to northern sections of the island, with flooding and mudslides probable.
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And while cooler northern waters mean Ophelia won't have the intensity of recent storms that have slammed the US, it is still likely to pack hurricane-force winds.
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For example, hurricane-force winds extended 20 miles out from the eye of Hurricane Dorian as it moved through the Caribbean, but only to the east and north.
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In 2007, the county implemented regulations requiring new construction to be able to withstand hurricane-force winds of 120 to 150 miles an hour, according to the Times.
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A powerful storm with hurricane-force winds raked across the Northeast on Sunday and into Monday morning, knocking out power to more than a million homes and businesses.
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In Georgia, an 11-year-old girl named Sarah died after a metal carport was flung into the air by hurricane-force winds, hitting her grandparents' mobile home.
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Although the storm has weakened, its hurricane-force winds reach 60 miles from its center and tropical-storm-force winds extend out 175 miles, according to the advisory.
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A strong winter storm struck Colorado and other parts of the central United States on Wednesday, sending hurricane-force winds and heavy snow across the region, meteorologists said.
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Bahamas tourist hotspots Great Abaco and Grand Bahamas are predicted to get up to two days of hurricane-force winds as Dorian slows to a 2 mph crawl.
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In addition, Dorian's wind field is predicted to expand, which would bring hurricane-force winds closer to the east coast of Florida even if the track does change.
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That's too far away to feel the storm surge pushed by hurricane-force winds, but there was still minor flooding that clogged traffic and ruined his daily jog.
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But the damage from Harvey, which arrived with hurricane force, has exposed a downside: vulnerability to storms that experts say are becoming more extreme because of climate change.
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Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 35 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 175 miles, the National Hurricane Center said.
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It warned of "life-threatening storm surge" and dangerous flooding and said "damaging hurricane force winds are likely," particularly along the coast as well as locations further inland.
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That massive storm damaged or destroyed 125,000 homes in the area, and the new codes have forced developers to build structures that could better withstand hurricane-force winds.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Baseball-sized hail, hurricane-force wind gusts and tornadoes could hit portions of the U.S. Southern Plains on Friday evening into early Saturday, forecasters said.
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Hurricane-force winds extend 45 miles outward from the center of the storm, the center said, with tropical storm-force winds as much as 25 miles outward. Gov.
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Hurricane-force winds extend 45 miles outward from the center of the storm, the center said, with tropical storm-force winds as much as 25 miles outward. Gov.
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A major nor'easter is taking aim at the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, bringing an array of life-threatening hazards, from hurricane-force winds to record-breaking coastal flooding.
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It warned of an "extreme" threat to life and property, hurricane force winds of 110 mph or higher and a "life-threatening storm surge" of 5-8 feet.
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Rainfall expected: 210 to 26 inches Storm surge expected: 210 to 8 feet Panama City Beach Hurricane force winds (75 mph+): Just before noon Worst conditions: 12 p.m.
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The hurricane-force winds were so powerful that they lifted the roof on the hospital's tower, where most of the patients were, and water poured into the facility.
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There were piles of debris here and there, and many trees had the dead branches of other trees wedged into them, blown there by the hurricane-force winds.
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Nuclear plants have procedures that require they shut a safe amount of time before hurricane force winds of at least 74 mph are expected to reach the site.
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Hurricane-force winds are thought to begin at about 75 mph, said Weener, who also estimated waves rose to around 4 feet, with a possibility of 6-foot crests.
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With onshore winds already topping a hurricane-force 70 miles per hour, and a full moon Thursday night, officials across the region are preparing for record coastal flooding events.
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"Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 1803 miles (110 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 195 miles (315 km)," it added.
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Hurricane-force winds of over 22019mph whipped through Northern California on Sunday, fueling wildfires that forced nearly 200,000 residents from their homes as flames destroyed buildings and threatened lives.
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Xavier Felix in Vieques VIEQUES, Puerto Rico — More than four months after hurricane-force winds ripped apart his wooden house around him, Xavier Felix still has regular panic attacks.
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Now the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane on record, Irma is a Category 5 storm some 500 miles wide, with hurricane-force winds extending 50 miles from its eye.
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Hurricane-force winds began to hit the Keys before the storm's arrival Sunday, with the National Weather Service in Key West reporting wind gusts of 90 miles per hour.
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The latest projections predict Hurricane Florence could stall just off the North Carolina coast, dumping feet of rain inland while sustained hurricane force winds complicate rescue and recovery efforts.
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At least two people have died in the Woolsey Fire in southern California, and firefighters are preparing for worse conditions Tuesday as the Santa Ana winds approach hurricane force.
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Farmers work to clear two 29-year-old beech trees that were uprooted and toppled over by the near hurricane force winds of Storm Gertrude on January 29, 2016.
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The 230-deck Anthem is the same ship that suffered damage in February after sailing into hurricane-force winds and 23-foot waves off the coast of North Carolina.
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EDT Hurricane Madeline is weakening quickly to tropical storm status, and is expected to pass far enough south of the Big Island to spare it of hurricane force winds.
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In Oregon, a hurricane force wind watch is in effect along the coast for the storm the Weather Service office in Portland is calling the "Ides of October" storm.
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The storm is poundng the Texas coast and its millions of residents with hurricane-force winds knocking down trees, power poles and signs, and with torrential rain deluging streets.
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The storm is expected to pass just north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, bringing hurricane force winds to northern sections of the island, likely causing mudslides and flooding.
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During the massive 2017 Tubbs fire, I oversaw the physicians and care teams who moved 122 patients to safety as hurricane-force winds drove flames toward our hospital doors.
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Parts of the Carolinas could experience hurricane-force winds for 787 hours or more, said Jeff Byard, associate administrator for response and recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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In Maine, where the Weather Service had issued a warning until midnight Eastern for hurricane-force winds along the coast, residents were taking the harsh wintry conditions in stride.
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Tropical Storm Dorian threatened Puerto Rico with a direct hit at near-hurricane force on Wednesday and forecasters said it could strengthen further as it approaches the U.S. mainland.
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Hurricane Dorian, currently a strong Category 2 storm, is forecast to become a Category 4 storm with potentially "devastating hurricane-force winds," the National Hurricane Center said on Friday.
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The storm system is already unleashing a variety of wild weather across the West; A massive temperature swing, near hurricane-force wind gusts and the return of winter precipitation.
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The big picture: The systems have caused transport chaos after triggering heavy snowstorms, rainfall, a "bomb cyclone" with hurricane-force winds and tornadoes in some parts of the country.
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Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles from the center of the storm, the NHC said, and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 230 miles.
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Last weekend, a powerful nor'easter that morphed into a "bomb cyclone" slammed much of the Northeast with heavy snow and rain, hurricane-force wind gusts, and significant coastal flooding.
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On March 2, a nor'easter that morphed into a "bomb cyclone" slammed much of the Northeast with heavy snow and rain, hurricane-force wind gusts and significant coastal flooding.
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For example, the tropical storm force winds go out up to 400 miles from the center, and the hurricane force winds go out about 90 miles from the center.
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On March 2, a nor'easter that morphed into a "bomb cyclone" slammed much of the Northeast with heavy snow and rain, hurricane-force wind gusts, and significant coastal flooding.
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A large and rapidly intensifying storm struck northern Ireland and the UK on Thursday, plastering some areas with snow and bringing widespread wind gusts approaching or exceeding hurricane force.
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The threat: Michael's track forecast is likely to bring hurricane-force winds to a large region between Pensacola to Tallahassee, and could do structural damage to buildings large and small.
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Tokyo (CNN)Typhoon Hagibis made landfall Saturday night local time, as the country braces for hurricane-force winds that have killed at least 27 people and injured more than 245.
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Life-threatening storm surges and hurricane-force winds are occurring along the North Carolina coast, with the threat of freshwater flooding seen increasing over the next several days, it added.
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In Florida, that pivot toward improving recovery times has meant, for one, simple upgrades, like replacing thousands of wooden utility poles with concrete that can better withstand hurricane-force winds.
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This is unwelcome news for a country where thousands of people will be riding out the storm in temporary shelters with scant protections against hurricane force winds and flooding rains.
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MEXICO CITY – Two new tropical storms were strengthening off Mexico on Monday and both were projected to reach hurricane force while marching northwestward parallel to the coast, bringing heavy surf.
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The coastal flooding is the result of a long fetch of easterly winds, reaching hurricane force (75 miles per hour), pointed squarely at the north-south coast of eastern Massachusetts.
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A "bomb cyclone" hurled hurricane-force winds, sparked tornadoes and dumped heavy snow and rain across the Plains and western Midwest on its march across the United States this week.
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While the eye may stay just off the coast by about 213 miles, extremely strong hurricane force winds will lash the coastline during its closest pass at around 123 a.m.
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Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 25 miles (35 km) from the center of the storm and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 105 miles (165 km).
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Beyond the shrapnel and other objects that impale the head and body, the hurricane-force wind can blow troops off their feet, causing fatal head injuries and concussions on impact.
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The NHC expects the hurricane to then make landfall in Nova Scotia on Saturday night and Sunday, bringing storm surge and hurricane-force winds to the area and neighboring Newfoundland.
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Computer model projections show what is now Hurricane Ophelia approaching Great Britain and Ireland as a hurricane-force low pressure area by late in the weekend and early next week.
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Hurricane-force winds and small tornadoes lashed Italy this week from Piedmont to Sicily, and the comprehensive mayhem left at least 11 people dead and many more injured or stranded.
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More than two million people lie in the path of storms that could produce the violent, large-scale tornadoes along with baseball-sized hail, flash flooding and hurricane-force winds.
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Super typhoon Mangkhut, with hurricane-force winds well over 200 kilometers per hour (124 miles/h), had barreled past the northern tip of the Philippines, killing at least 50 people.
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Tropical storm-force winds could arrive on the Big Island late Wednesday local time, with hurricane-force winds to follow soon afterward, said Gavin Shigesato, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
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Bahamas tourist hotspots Great Abaco and Grand Bahamas are predicted to get up to two days of hurricane-force winds as Dorian slow to a 2 mph (3.2 kph) crawl.
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The entire southern and central Florida peninsula could still receive hurricane-force winds and gusts over 100 miles per hour, even in a relatively "good" outcome for any given location.
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The hurricane-force winds extend 80 miles from the center of the storm and cover more than 15,000 square miles, an area larger than Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.
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"Damaging hurricane-force winds are likely along portions of the coasts of South Carolina and North Carolina as soon as this evening," the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Thursday.
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Super typhoon Mangkhut, with hurricane-force winds well over 200 kilometers per hour (124 miles/h), had barreled past the northern tip of the Philippines, killing at least 50 people.
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"We will safely shut down these nuclear plants well in advance of hurricane-force winds, and we've finalized plans for that shutdown," FPL spokesman Rob Gould told a news conference.
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The storm, which is bringing blizzard conditions to areas from Virginia to Maine, along with hurricane-force wind gusts and damaging coastal flooding, looks like a classic non-tropical storm.
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The official forecast predicts that the storm's center will stay about 100 miles off the coast, but hurricane-force wind gusts are likely to be overland along Florida's east coast.
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It is predicted to deliver tropical-storm-force winds by noon Thursday to North Carolina's coast, and hurricane-force winds and dangerous storm surges by late Thursday or early Friday.
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Super Typhoon Mangkhut, with hurricane-force winds well over 200 kilometers per hour (124 miles/h), had barreled past the northern tip of the Philippines, killing at least 50 people.
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The storm was giant when it made landfall: hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 80 miles, and tropical-storm-force winds extended nearly 200 miles from the storm's center.
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Storm Dennis, the second-strongest nontropical storm on record in the North Atlantic Ocean, caused widespread flooding across parts of the United Kingdom on Sunday, along with winds exceeding hurricane force.
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Currently, Irma is about 25 miles northeast of Tampa, and hurricane-force winds continue to extend out up to 80 miles from the eye of the storm, according to the NHC.
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This aspect of the storm is crucial, because such a rapid pressure drop would lead to hurricane force winds of 75 miles per hour or greater as well as building seas.
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The fire that swept through Paradise was propelled by powerful offshore Santa Ana winds, which blew at hurricane force at times, giving residents little to no time to prepare to evacuate.
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Before Irma's expected track changed, FPL said on Friday it planned to shut both units at Turkey Point sometime on Saturday about 24 hours before hurricane force winds reached the plant.
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"The containers are very strong and made to withstand inclement weather, even hurricane force winds," said Bared, adding that the sustainable and eco-friendly building concept is also easy to maintain.
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"Hurricane force winds will extend outward from [Matthew's] center approximately 25-50 miles, and tropical storm force winds likely 150-200 miles," AccuWeather meteorologist Ed Vallee told Gizmodo in an email.
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A storm surge, lashing rain and hurricane-force winds hit coastal areas, leaving parts of many towns under water, and more than a million homes and businesses in Florida without power.
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While Dorian is now a Category 2 hurricane — down from a Category 5 — and actual landfall is uncertain, hurricane force winds extend 0003 miles outward from the eye of the storm.
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But it's still big enough that it could retain hurricane force for the majority of its journey over the peninsula, with much of the state's coastline seeing major tornado-like winds.
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Bahamas tourist hotspots Great Abaco and Grand Bahamas were predicted to get up to a 15-foot (4.6-m) storm surge and two days of hurricane-force winds starting on Sunday.
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Michael is expected to keep moving inland, bringing drenching rains and possibly flash flooding to Georgia (which could see hurricane-force winds) and the Carolinas (which are still recovering from Hurricane Florence).
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Relative calm returned to world markets on Friday after a hurricane-force week that wiped billions off share prices and saw investors dash for shelter in top-rated government bonds and gold.
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The men were off the coast of Labrador, Canada, with a load of seals aboard, caught in a fierce storm: hurricane-force winds of 80 miles per hour and 45-foot waves.
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The National Hurricane Center forecasts Dorian to be 40 to 50 miles off the Florida coast on Tuesday and Wednesday, with hurricane-force wind speeds extending about 35 miles to the west.
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Early on Friday, the St. Lucie County fire service received a call to aid a woman who had suffered a heart attack, but winds approaching hurricane force prevented emergency vehicles from responding.
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Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), a leader of the moderate Tuesday Group, told CNN that Republicans up for reelection this year are aware they're running against a "hurricane-force wind," while conservative Rep.
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The group is determining how and to what extent the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the National Guard should plan to get involved with the recovery effort once hurricane-force winds subside.
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Hurricane-force winds from Lorenzo are extending as far as 90 miles from the storm's center, and tropical storm-force winds reach as far as 255 miles outward, the hurricane center said.
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Hurricane-force winds and rains were expected to hit Bermuda by Wednesday night, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, although forecasts showed the islands could be spared a direct hit.
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"The very dangerous core of Dorian is expected to stay roughly 50 miles off the Florida coast, which will bring hurricane force winds, surge and heavy rain," CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said.
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ET Sunday, around the time Trump began to bring up Alabama, hurricane-force winds were 45 miles from the storm's center and tropical storm-force winds were 140 miles from the center.
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During the height of the storm, winds in Washington could reach 55 miles per hour, while coastal locations could even see higher gusts close to hurricane force, which is 74 miles per hour.
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Hurricane-force winds caused by Florence were getting closer to the North Carolina outer banks and coastal southeastern North Carolina, the NHC said, adding that life-threatening storm surge and rainfall was expected.
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Hurricane Florence roared onto the North Carolina coast at a snail's pace Friday, subjecting the coastline to more than 12 hours of punishing hurricane-force winds and pushing a massive storm surge inland.
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Right now, an extremely powerful jet stream is helping to spawn one massive North Atlantic storm after another, bringing hurricane force winds to parts of the UK, France, Portugal and Spain this week.
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Our new house has a film on the windows to strengthen the glass so it will withstand hurricane-force winds, but all around me are still neighbors hauling plywood or closing hurricane shutters.
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Last February at least four people were hurt when the ship hit hurricane-force winds off North Carolina, prompting the crew to turn the vessel around and return to port in New Jersey.
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Storm surge is expected to bring flood waters reaching 14 feet high — and the Panhandle is already experiencing "life threatening storm surge, hurricane force winds, and heavy rainfall," the National Hurricane Center says.
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But, the move could also trigger Hermine to develop hurricane-force winds tonight and Monday due to the warmer waters it will travel over, which could push water to the shores even harder.
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"Different models show different trends," he said, pointing out that hurricane-force wind speeds and and increases thunderstorms are tough to estimate, but "we're locked in on sea level rise," he told me.
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The small island of 220 million people was still cleaning up from being side-swiped by Irma when Maria slammed into it on Tuesday, engulfing nearly the entire island with hurricane-force winds.
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Hurricane-force winds are a concern as the storm builds strength in the Gulf of Mexico, and a potential deluge and subsequent flooding may be a big danger as well, according to meteorologists.
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Tropical storm force winds are expected to spread over Florida from south to north beginning on Saturday morning, with hurricane force winds of 75 miles per hour or greater arriving soon after that.
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The big picture: The storm is unusually tiny, with a radius of hurricane force winds of just 10 miles, and with tropical storm force winds felt just 35 miles away from the center.
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Late Sunday, Trump retweeted a message from the National Hurricane Center warning that "life-threatening storm surge and hurricane-force winds are expected along portions of the Florida east coast through mid-week."
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Hurricane-force winds had expanded to 60 miles (95 km) from the storm's core, with still-dangerous tropical storm-force winds felt for 175 miles (280 km) from its center, the NHC said.
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We were thrilled to hear that — even with winds gusting to 122 miles per hour, beyond hurricane force — the SnowCoach, a spider-like vehicle with triangular treads instead of tires, would be operating.
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The storm is projected to slow and head northward as it nears the state, potentially resulting in hurricane-force winds for parts of the Florida coast by midweek, according to the hurricane center.
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Humacao, Puerto Rico (CNN)Puerto Rico was spared the brunt of hurricane-force winds from Dorian that tore through the British and US Virgin Islands Wednesday, flooding roads and leaving areas without power.
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ET, the eye of Hurricane Dorian was located roughly 50 miles northeast of San Juan with hurricane-force winds extending 15 miles from the center of the storm, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said.
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The NWS stated that "major hurricane force winds" were expected to batter the area at daybreak, with winds speeds well over 100 miles per hour making their way up the state's western coast.
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Related: Track the storm On March 24, a nor'easter that morphed into a "bomb cyclone" slammed much of the Northeast with heavy snow and rain, hurricane-force wind gusts, and significant coastal flooding.
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A powerful storm with near hurricane-force winds swept through Southern California on Saturday, killing at least two people and causing widespread disruptions, but providing a definitive respite from five years of drought.
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Dorian is expected to move "dangerously close" to the Southeast US coast in the coming days, bringing "life-threatening" storm surge and lashing coastlines from Florida to North Carolina with hurricane-force winds.
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It plans to leave both reactors in service at the St. Lucie plant about 120 miles (193 km )north of Miami because hurricane-force winds are no longer expected to hit the sites.
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The concern is not a direct landfall -- though that is still a possibility -- but that the island is now more likely to experience near-hurricane-force conditions because the wind field has expanded.
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"Ophelia will remain a powerful extratropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds while it moves near Ireland and the United Kingdom Monday and Monday night," the National Hurricane Center reported in its latest forecast.
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Models don't expect its winds to regain hurricane force, but the concentrated moisture could dump further rain over Texas and Southern Louisiana today into tomorrow, and even bring further storm surges to coastal communities.
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Out to sea, Hermine is expected to regain hurricane-force winds -- about 75 mph -- sometime during the remainder of the holiday weekend, although the National Weather Service will not officially call it a hurricane.
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Life-threatening hurricane-force winds will occur well inland across portions of the Florida Panhandle, southeast Alabama, and southwestern Georgia as the core of the hurricane moves inland later today and this evening. 4.
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This would be close enough to spread hurricane force sustained winds of greater than 25 miles per hour across the vulnerable, highly populated Florida coastline from Miami northward to the Florida-Georgia state line.
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Read more: Tropical Storm Barry is nearing hurricane force as it approaches Louisiana coast, with landfall expected imminentlyThe island's residents were being taken to Houma-Terrebonne Airport to be evaluated for injuries, WDSU reports.
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Despite several weeks of dangerous weather conditions and hurricane-force wind gusts as high as 102 miles per hour, the 6003 wildfire season has actually wreaked less havoc compared to the last two years.
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And because Irma now encompasses such a large area — with hurricane-force winds extending out 70 miles from the center — meteorologists say that the storm poses extremely grave risks as it heads toward Florida.
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Blizzard warnings are posted in New York Wind gusts could approach hurricane force along the Maine coast, while wind advisories stretch from Vermont to South Carolina, and scattered power outages are possible, Hennen said.
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Hurricane Nate will be nearing landfall around the time of high tide on Saturday night, likely bringing hurricane force onshore winds to the Gulf Coast at that time, thereby increasing the coastal flood threat.
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The storm weakened to a Category 2, but it's expected to move "dangerously close" to the Southeast US coast in coming days, bringing "life-threatening" storm surges and lashing coastlines with hurricane-force winds.
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By then the low-lying archipelago, occupying just 13 square miles (21 sq km) and home to more than 2000,230 people, had been lashed for hours with torrential rain, hurricane-force winds and pounding surf.
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As Irma lashed Florida's western coast with hurricane-force winds, residents of Collier and Lee counties were still making last-minute attempts to evacuate, as local shelters filled fast, often without power or adequate supplies.
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Meanwhile, more than 2.4 million people who lost electricity over the weekend were awaiting restoration as hurricane-force winds whipped through the state, fueling a wildfire in Sonoma County as smaller spot fires cropped up.
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"The strongest winds, southeasterly gusts close to hurricane force (74 mph), may occur along the coast and mountains of New England as the storm moves up and strengthens and Sunday night into Monday," Kottlowski said.
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In the intervening years, he moved to Macedonia and performed a cunning short-circuit on his hurricane-force narcissism, transforming his status as a walking museum of NPD into a vehicle to make himself famous.
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BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Tropical storm Otto moved out to sea on Friday after battering Nicaragua and Costa Rica with hurricane-force winds and torrential rains, killing at least three people and forcing thousands to evacuate.
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It's possible that hurricane force winds will last the entire day in parts of Puerto Rico, before the storm exits — likely in a weakened state — and heads toward the Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas.
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Readings near Branson when the boat went down showed winds of up to 73 miles per hour (117 kph), two miles (3.2 km) shy of hurricane force, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Saturday.
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He said the storm would still have hurricane-force winds as it pushed through Florida into Georgia and tropical storm-force winds when it reaches the Carolinas, which are still reeling from post-Florence flooding.
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And even though the storm is just 123 hours away from its closest pass with Maui and Oahu, where Honolulu could see hurricane force winds for hours on end, the exact track is still murky.
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In the United States, residents on the southern East Coast have been warned to prepare for hurricane-force winds, though forecasts vary about when and where it may make landfall, from Florida to the Carolinas.
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Studies show that when solar panels are well-engineered and installed, they can withstand hurricane-force winds, said Louis Gritzo, research manager at FM Global, a U.S. insurer that simulates natural hazards to test materials.
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The Thomas fire was initially stoked by hot, dry Santa Ana winds blowing with rare hurricane force from the eastern desert, spreading flames across miles of rugged coastal terrain faster than firefighters could keep up.
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Irma, with its hurricane-force winds extending 2003 miles out from its center "will bring life-threatening wind impacts to much of Florida regardless of the exact track of the center," the National Hurricane Center reports.
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A wind gust to hurricane force, or 75 miles per hour, was recorded in Rehobeth Beach, Delaware, where waves higher than 53 feet and a high astronomical high tide raised water levels to near record heights.
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It knocked out power to hundreds of thousands in the Washington, D.C. area due to strong winds in excess of 60 miles per hour, and also brought hurricane force winds to Cape Cod and the Islands.
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"We had a stiff headwind in 277, which in 231 has gone to hurricane force," chief executive Brian Ferguson said on an earnings call, adding that capital discipline and balance sheet strength would be top priorities.
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The storm carried hurricane-force winds in excess of 90 miles per hour (145 kph), sending seawater churning into streets in Boston and nearby shore towns - the second time the area has been flooded this year.
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Those are a few of the falsehoods spread online that are in need of debunking in this age of "fake news," when misinformation seems to appear from nothing and reaches hurricane-force speeds in an instant.
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The storm has grown in size as it has weakened in strength, and its hurricane-force winds were extending outward as far as 60 miles from its center on Tuesday, up from 45 miles on Sunday.
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As arctic warms, nor'easters may get worse On March 2, a nor'easter that morphed into a "bomb cyclone" slammed much of the Northeast with heavy snow and rain, hurricane-force wind gusts and significant coastal flooding.
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The storm has grown in size as it has weakened in strength, and its hurricane-force winds were extending outward as far as 60 miles from its center on Tuesday, up from 45 miles on Sunday.
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All while another storm will hit the West Coast with hurricane-force winds and rainfall and the California and Nevada mountains with heavy snow, promising more travel disruptions on the busiest travel days of the year.
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It diminished from hurricane force as it came ashore, but forecasters said the 230-mile-wide storm's slow progress across North and South Carolina could leave much of the region under water in the coming days.
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"Our model simulations clearly show that future tropical cyclones are more prone to hit Western Europe, and do so earlier in the season, thereby increasing the frequency and impact of hurricane force winds," the team wrote.
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Storm surge: With hurricane-force winds extending an unusually far 80 miles outside of the storm's center, and tropical storm force winds reaching far beyond that, Florence is driving an extraordinary amount of water toward the shore.
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SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Tropical storm Otto killed at least nine people and forced thousands to evacuate when it battered Nicaragua and Costa Rica with hurricane-force winds and torrential rains, before moving out into the Pacific Ocean.
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This is a very different storm than a Florence and a Harvey, but it carries its own unique threats because of the fact that places inland will see hurricane force winds or strong tropical storm force winds.
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The Weather Service is predicting winds as high as 50 miles per hour along much of the East Coast, including New York City, with gusts to hurricane force, or 75 miles per hour, across eastern New England.
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It was so wide and powerful that both the east and west coasts of the state experienced hurricane-force winds (with a peak gust of 142 miles per hour), as well as coastal flooding, and heavy rain.
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Officials say that despite the library being saved, thousands of homes in the Golden State remain threatened At least 6900 fires are burning across the state, with hurricane-force winds potentially exacerbating them, according to the newspaper.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Matthew brought flooding and felled trees to islands in the eastern Caribbean on Wednesday and forecasters said the 13th cyclone of the 2016 Atlantic season would reach hurricane force later this week.
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DENVER (Reuters) - A powerful late-winter blizzard dubbed a "bomb cyclone" by meteorologists moved east on Thursday, hurling hurricane-force winds, tornadoes after dumping heavy snow on Colorado and the plains states and killing a state trooper.
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What remained of that blowup told a story: of hurricane force winds, of 100-foot trees that crushed firefighters, of a land so scorched by intense heat that it was decades before seedlings sprouted in some places.
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"Life-threatening storm surge and devastating hurricane-force winds are still likely along portions of the Florida east coast by the early to middle part of next week," the National Weather Service warned early on Saturday morning.
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Of immediate concern were Bahamas tourist hotspots Great Abaco and Grand Bahamas, where up to two days of hurricane-force winds were set to start on Sunday as Dorian slowed to a 2 mph (3.2 kph) crawl.
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Hurricane-force winds were expected to pummel Bermuda on Wednesday night, the Miami-based U.S. National Hurricane Center said, although the core of Humberto was expected to pass just to the northwest and north of the archipelago.
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Mangkhut, with hurricane-force winds well over 200 km per hour (124 miles per hour), barreled past the northern tip of the Philippines on Saturday, killing at least 50 people, the majority of them due to landslides.
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These winds — in some instances gusting to hurricane force of 103 miles per hour — will drive water toward the coast, particularly in southeastern New England, where moderate to major coastal flooding is expected during high tides on Thursday.
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Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said they expected Hermine to turn to the northeast and slow in speed on Saturday night, with winds again reaching hurricane force of more than 24 mph (2200 kph) by Sunday evening.
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Wednesday's severe weather event, described as unprecedented in its scope, duration and impact on Michigan's power grid, lashed much of the state, home to about 10 million people, with near-hurricane-force winds for 12 hours, authorities said.
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The early investigation into what caused a tour boat in Missouri to capsize Thursday, killing 17, has found that the vessel faced winds approaching hurricane force when it tipped over, according to a National Transportation Safety Board official.
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This transformation will not weaken the storm's winds much, though, so Ireland and the U.K. are preparing for a potentially strong storm to start the week, with some areas likely to see hurricane-force winds from this system.
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By late afternoon, Dorian was moving away from the mid-Atlantic states and headed towards Canada where it was expected to bring hurricane-force winds to parts of Nova Scotia by Saturday evening, the National Hurricane Center said.
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For comparison, Hurricane Andrew, which made landfall in South Florida as a Category 5 storm in 1992 after quickly intensifying near the Bahamas, was a relatively compact storm, with hurricane-force winds extending 25 miles from its center.
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FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES Tropical-storm-force winds are due to reach the coasts of North and South Carolina on Thursday morning, and hurricane-force winds may be felt around Thursday night, ahead of an anticipated Friday morning landfall.
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After devastating the Bahamas and pummeling North Carolina, Dorian lashed at far-eastern Canada with hurricane-force winds Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people before weakening and heading into the North Atlantic, AP reports.
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Near hurricane-force winds from Alberto dropped to about 1763 miles per hour (48 km per hour) as it lost strength while crossing the Gulf of Mexico and making landfall in the U.S. South, the National Weather Service said.
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The storm devastated the small town of 400 with hurricane force winds, and left behind a storm surge that locals estimated was about seven-feet high, filling many homes with floodwater, mud, and the promise of future mold problems.
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Over the Atlantic, where there's no land interaction with the wind, and closer to the storm's center, those areas definitely can see winds in excess of 74 mph, which is technically the criteria to meet for hurricane-force wind.
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While the tempest did not yet have hurricane-force winds, it was forecast to bring torrential rains of up to 274 inches (64 cm) in certain places, which officials said risked flooding along the already-swollen lower Mississippi River.
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It lashed the Outer Banks with hurricane-force winds as far as 285 miles (72 km) from the center of the hurricane and sent tropical storm winds farther than 200 miles (320 km) from its center, the NHC said.
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Forecasters added that they expected Ophelia to weaken to become a "post-tropical cyclone" by the time it reached Ireland's coast on Monday, but that it would still bring hurricane-force winds gusting up to 80 miles an hour.
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As of Wednesday morning, winds up to 40 mph are whipping the area, and when the brunt of the storm hits Panama City and the surrounding areas around noon, the hurricane force winds could reach speeds of 75 mph.
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After a turbulent weekend, Hurricane Irma was downgraded from a Category 5 hurricane to a tropical storm on Monday, however, the National Hurricane Center still warned that the storm was producing wind gusts which are close to hurricane force.
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HONG KONG, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A hurricane force "super typhoon" swirled towards Hong Kong and the Chinese coastline on Sunday, gaining in force over the South China sea after hurtling through the Philippines where it left at least three people dead.
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Between the lines: The fire now measures well over 100,000 acres in size and has been fueled by a combination of unusually dry weather and powerful, desiccating Santa Ana winds, at times blowing at hurricane force (75 miles per hour).
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The line shows the most likely predicted path, the cone shows the uncertainty around that forecast, and the color is an estimate of the likelihood of that area experiencing hurricane-force winds — greater than 74 mph — over the next five days.
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In Florence's case, the hurricane's slow, forward motion as it comes ashore raises the possibility that some areas could see an extended duration of hurricane-force winds, which would maximize property damage and infrastructure problems, particularly to the electric grid.
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The flames, driven to the outskirts of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge overnight by hurricane-force winds and fed by drought-parched brush, forced 14,000 people to flee and sent three to hospitals with severe burns, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said.
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The Turkey Point Power Plant in Miami-Dade County is located just outside of the storm's path, but the St. Lucie Power Plant east of Port St. Lucie is within the area that could experience hurricane-force winds and storm surge.
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In a coast-hugging scenario, Hurricane Matthew would then recurve along the Georgia and South Carolina coastlines, bringing hurricane force winds ashore along both states, before moving more to the east in response to a weather system developing across the Northeast.
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It's also possible — but not terribly likely — that the storm will emerge from the Bahamas at a more easterly longitude than is currently expected, and remain far enough off the eastern coast of Florida to bring hurricane force winds ashore.
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Hong Kong (AFP) - Typhoon Hato smashed into Hong Kong Wednesday with hurricane force winds and heavy rains in the worst storm the city has seen for five years, shutting down the stock market and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights.
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" On Monday, a high-ranking member of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee called for a federal investigation into the event, saying the crew should have known not to sail the ship into the "the heart of a hurricane-force storm.
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The National Hurricane Center put Hector about 1,130 miles southeast of Hawaii's Big Island and its hurricane force winds stretched 30 miles out from its center with tropical force winds of 74 mph extending out 105 miles, the NHC said.
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Although Florence has slowed, it's still bringing a life-threatening storm surge reaching heights of up to 11 feet with hurricane-force wind gusts and up to 40 inches of rain in some parts, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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The National Weather Service said earlier on Saturday that "major hurricane force winds" were expected to batter the Keys on Sunday at daybreak, with wind speeds still well over 100 miles per hour making their way up the state's western coast.
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Mapp warned that hurricane-force winds were expected to howl across St. Croix for eight hours, accompanied by up to a foot and a half (46 cm) of rain that would be followed by nearly a week of additional showers.
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Tropical-storm-force winds are due to reach the coasts of North and South Carolina late Wednesday night, and hurricane-force winds may be felt around noon Thursday, ahead of a landfall likely Thursday night, CNN meteorologist Chad Meyers said.
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The National Hurricane Center put Hector about 1,143 miles southeast of Hawaii's Big Island and its hurricane force winds stretched 30 miles out from its center with tropical force winds of 74 mph extending out 105 miles, the NHC said.
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He had been looking at the online forecasts from the National Hurricane Center and agreed with their essential conclusions: Harvey was a well-organized storm that would land with hurricane force on the Texas Gulf Coast somewhere between Corpus Christi and Port O'Connor.
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For example, its swath of hurricane-force winds extends out to a diameter greater than the width of Florida, according to Weather Channel meteorologist Bryan Norcross, who saw South Florida through Category 5 Hurricane Andrew in 1992 as a television meteorologist in Miami.
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The two women also insisted they got caught in a storm that was whipping up 30-foot waves and near hurricane-force winds on the night they set sail, despite records that show no severe weather in the area at the time.
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The lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court in Miami claim that Royal Caribbean knew, or should have known, that a coastal storm carrying hurricane-force winds had been forecast before the ship set sail from Cape Liberty, New Jersey on Feb.
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Hong Kong's weather observatory said in the early hours that winds occasionally reached storm force in the southern part of the territory and hurricane force on high ground on Lantau Island to the west of the city where the airport is situated.
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Despite the direct hit on Florida, the hurricane-force winds spared most of the northern part of the state, leaving behind a manageable mess in the most affected counties and not the kind of catastrophic damage a more powerful storm could have wrought.
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Since Dorian is forecast to slow down and turn northward as it approaches the coast, life-threatening storm surge and dangerous hurricane-force winds are still possible along portions of the Florida east coast by the early to middle part of next week.
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Here's an infrared image from GOES-16 taken this morning that shows the storm in context of the wider U.S. Here's Irma's likely path and timing: This GIF shows the path of potential hurricane-force wind speeds: This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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"The risk of dangerous storm surge and hurricane-force winds is increasing in the central and northwestern Bahamas and along the Florida east coast, although it is too soon to determine where these hazards will occur," forecasters said in an advisory on Wednesday.
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The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned residents of Nova Scotia and western Newfoundland to prepare for impact as the storm sweeps north over the next several hours, with hurricane-force winds near 280 miles per hour extending outward up to 257 miles.
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"That's good news, but this is not over yet because we still are forecasting it to slow down and meander generally northward ... We think it could become hurricane force again," Knabb said, as the storm was likely to strengthen as it moved over warm water.
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READ: Hurricane-force winds are turning California's fires into a horror show In the state's south, another major fire broke out near the Getty Center, the arts campus that includes the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles in the early hours of Monday morning.
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Winds could gust to hurricane force — 13 miles per hour — in the area, and a combination of high astronomical tides, a 3-to-5-foot storm surge, and destructive waves are likely to produce historic coastal flooding in many areas during multiple high tides.
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It's unquestionable that this year's Kincade fire grew with such disastrous rapidity because of the climate: When the fires started, our air was so devoid of moisture it was on a par with Antarctica's, and parts of the Bay Area have experienced hurricane-force winds.
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Here's how the Hurricane Center summarized the uncertainty involved in the forecast, and what it means for Great Britain and Ireland: Ophelia is expected to transition to a hurricane-force post-tropical cyclone by Monday when it moves near Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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The hurricane was expected to remain at about the same intensity for the next couple of days, and even if it doesn't make landfall, hurricane-force winds are expected to reach parts of the coast from central Florida to North Carolina, the hurricane center said.
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A prolonged period of life-threatening storm surge, devastating hurricane-force winds, and heavy rains capable of life-threatening flash floods are expected on the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama Sunday through Monday, and a hurricane warning is in effect for these areas. 2.
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ROME — Violent thunderstorms, small tornadoes that blew roofs off homes, and hurricane-force winds lashed Italy from Piedmont to Sicily early this week, leaving at least 11 people dead, many more injured and firefighters and other rescue workers scrambling to respond to emergency calls.
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It noted that Irma has a very large wind field with hurricane-force winds extending outward from up to 1503 miles, or 2150 km, from the center of the storm, while tropical-storm-force winds extended outward for up to 2000 miles, or 22 km.
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Hurricane-force wind gusts, golf-ball-sized hail and 753 to 5 inches (5-13 cm)of snow fell on Friday night and early Saturday as storms pushed from Texas through the Southeast and Great Lakes into Maine, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
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No one was injured at his hospital, he said, and no one died in the storm there, but the hurricane-force winds were so powerful that they lifted the roof on the tower where most of the patients were, and water poured into the facility.
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In 1953 such a surge, driven by hurricane-force winds and coinciding with a spring high tide, broke through the dykes that protect much of the Netherlands from the sea in dozens of places, killing almost 2,000 people and inundating 9% of its farmland.
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Dorian was classified as a hurricane-force post-tropical cyclone when it made landfall near Sambro Creek, Nova Scotia, per a National Hurricane Center advisory on Saturday evening, packing winds of 100 mph — putting it at the same wind strength as a Category 2 hurricane.
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This particular storm, which is already beginning to form off the coast of Florida, will devour enough of them to allow it to become so powerful that it will contain hurricane force winds by the time it moves off the Mid-Atlantic coast late Wednesday night.
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One would think if it takes that long to further comment after a deadly Category 4 storm wracked a U.S. territory of 3.4 million people with hurricane-force winds and 40 inches of rain, the tweets would be a thoughtful response to an island in ruin.
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As the storm moves further inland, I am concerned that people further inland in my state of Georgia, for example, may not be really aware of the fact that they're going to experience strong tropical storm to weak hurricane force winds in some parts well inland.
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"Since Dorian is forecast to slow down and turn northward as it approaches the coast, life-threatening storm surge and dangerous hurricane-force winds are still possible along portions of the Florida east coast by the early to middle part of next week," the NHC reports.
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"The risk of devastating hurricane-force winds along the Florida east coast and peninsula late this weekend and early next week continues to increase, although it is too soon to determine where the strongest winds will occur," the National Hurricane Center said in a forecast on Thursday.
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Since Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys early on Sunday, bringing hurricane-force winds to much of South Florida, parts of two cranes collapsed: one at 300 Biscayne Boulevard, in the heart of downtown Miami, and one at 0003 NE 30th Terrace, about two miles away.
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Some coastal areas in Northern California and Oregon should brace for "stronger than hurricane-force winds," the National Weather Service said, warning that the high winds could bring down power lines, rip branches from trees and threaten to push eighteen-wheelers and RVs off the roads.
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"I wanted this trip to initiate a lifetime of shared wilderness adventures," Dial recalls, and so, in the face of hurricane-force winds and tough water crossings, he focused on making the journey as kid-friendly as possible, pretending the barren Aleutian backcountry was an alien planet.
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The phrase "bomb cyclone" has gotten some use lately, after a historic storm in March brought hurricane-force winds to Colorado, dumped feet of snow in parts of the northern Great Plains and triggered flooding that damaged property and agriculture to the tune of billions of dollars.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in Canada lost power as post-tropical storm Dorian — now downgraded from a hurricane but still sustaining hurricane-force winds around 2135 mph — toppled trees, fences, power lines, and a construction crane during its sweep along the country's east coast Sunday.
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They may have thought that cruising along the western side of the storm would minimize the waves, since the highest waves built ahead of the low pressure area, but computer models were consistent in showing an area of hurricane force winds on the backside of the storm as well.
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The results look like something out of a shampoo commercial, and while styling does take a long time to make it look like the hairs are naturally falling around the lion's head, once everything cools down, not even hurricane-force winds are going to mess up that hairstyle.
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FREMANTLE, Australia — For Scott Miller, part of a team searching for the remains of a doomed Malaysia Airlines flight, the worst hours in a lifetime at sea came when his 3003-foot vessel was caught last year between two powerful tropical cyclones and lashed by hurricane-force winds.
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Another huge factor is Andrew was so small, while Irma is already a normal size storm and likely to grow bigger with up to 100 miles (160 kilometers) wide of Category 5 hurricane force winds, triple Andrew's girth, according to Jeff Masters, meteorology director at the private Weather Underground.
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The National Hurricane Center said Friday that Dorian has increased the risk of "devastating hurricane-force winds" along parts of Florida's east coast, adding that the storm will remain an extremely dangerous major hurricane while it moves near the northwestern Bahamas and approaches the Florida peninsula into early next week.
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Hurricane-force wind gusts, golf-ball-sized hail and between 2-to-5 inches (5-13 cm)of snow fell on Friday night and early Saturday as the storms pushed from Texas, the Southeast and up to Great Lakes and into Maine, forecasters with the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
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READ: Hurricane-force winds are turning California's fires into a horror show "This smoky period we've been experiencing for the past month or so, it is unprecedented, so these conditions are a risk to people's health," said Richard Broome, the New South Wales government's director of environmental health, according to Reuters.
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Since the deadly fires began amid hurricane-force winds on Sunday night, the air has turned unhealthy or hazardous not only in hard-hit Sonoma and Napa counties, where the worst fires are burning, but locations 50 miles away or more, said Melanie Turner, a spokeswoman for the California Air Resources Board.
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The Center wrote that, though "it is too soon to determine exact timing, location, and magnitude of these impacts," residents from South Carolina to the mid-Atlantic area should be cautious of "storm surge at the coast, freshwater flooding from a prolonged and exceptionally heavy rainfall event inland, and damaging hurricane-force winds."
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The two have had their share of adventures together: They met as young women at a summer research program in Slovenia, where they snuck out of their strict host family's house and hit the bars in their pajamas, and years later they went on to hitchhike from Hungary to France and drive through hurricane-force windstorms in Iceland.
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The Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are in for a wild ride during the next few days as a nor'easter rapidly intensifies off the East Coast of the U.S. The storm will bring with it an array of life-threatening hazards, from record-breaking coastal flooding and hurricane force winds, to cement-like wet snow that will bring down trees and power lines.
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It's autumn in Antarctica, and while most south pole expeditions have long since departed for warmer waters and sunnier days, the 27 scientists aboard the Nathan B Palmer research vessel continue to plow toward the south polar in their quest to understand coastal polynyas, areas of open ocean where ice forms incredibly fast, due to the constant exposure of fresh water by hurricane-force, "katabatic" winds.
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