News tagged with hurricane warning

Terra satellite sees a more powerful Hurricane Rina, warnings up in Mexico

Hurricane warnings are in effect in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and visible and infrared satellite imagery from NASA continues to show Hurricane Rina getting stronger. Rina is now a category 2 hurricane on ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Thunderstorms in Beatriz show strengthening toward hurricane status

Tropical Storm Beatriz developed from a low pressure area that NASA was watching last week. Beatriz is now expected to reach hurricane force and hit western coastal Mexico today and tomorrow. NASA satellite ...

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created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Florida tourists unfamiliar with aspects of hurricane readiness

Many Florida tourists come for the perfect weather but do not know what to do in the perfect storm, finds a new University of Florida study of visiting vacationers and their preparedness for a hurricane strike.

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created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellite still sees heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Neki

Tropical Storm Neki continues moving north and over the weekend it will be in open waters in the Central Atlantic. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed over Neki early on October ...

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created Oct 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

NASA satellite sees Hurricane Jimena explode in strength over 4 days

Hurricane Warnings are up for the southern Baja California, as powerful Category Four Hurricane Jimena threatens. Jimena developed over the weekend, and the infrared instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured ...

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created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Seismic recordings of rockfall a step toward early-warning system in Yosemite

Hardly anyone noticed the ruckus when Yosemite Valley's largest rockfall in two decades thundered down near Half Dome before sunrise one March morning -- but scientists will hear all about it soon.

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created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0