Intensity measures a hurricane s force, which includes wind speeds, and there has been some recorded increase. The biggest change, however, has been in the duration of hurricanes how many days each hurricane lasts.

Ivan, the most powerful hurricane to hit the region in a decade, strengthened into category 4 as it struck Grenada, bringing sustained winds of 220 kilometres per hour.

Hurricanes are measured according to three dimensions frequency, intensity, and duration. The frequency of hurricanes has not changed much, if at all.

Besides the rain, we experienced heavy winds.

The stronger and more frequent hurricanes and typhoons in the Caribbean and the Pacific yet again prove this fact.

There will be stronger storms and greater flooding.

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(b) Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks and enhance early warning

The most massive tsunami perfect storm is bearing down upon us.

Some places in the above mentioned regions will see short time strong rainfall, thunderstorm, gale and other severe convection weather, with the strongest rainfall intensity topping 70mm per hour.

So you're feeling the wind and this tremendous wind now that you're going to be feeling and you want to go perpendicular to the wind or downwind, if you are in fact able to see where the blast was in front of you.

What you just heard are the interactions of barometric pressure, wind and temperature readings that were recorded of Hurricane Noel in 2007.

(1) Strengthening the Regional Capacity for Disasters Reduction through the Integration of Risk Management Approach

A special emphasis was made on the risk groups among women and girls, which is the consequence of their highly risky behavior and bad habits.

It's a stronger risk factor than having a mother or a sister with breast cancer.

This volume of assets allows the Fund to expand its investment frontier and requires it to build up a risk control mechanism, to control comprehensively not only investment risk but also operational risk and technology risk.

The strong winds from the shore never seem to stop, and the state of the sea is so severe.

Passing through the strong wind, the planes rock like this, but don't worry.

The hurricanes that struck the Caribbean in the fall of 2004 and that revisited in 2005 in the form of Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma were the strongest in a decade.

(h) Border control strengthened through technical equipment support and enhanced risk assessment, targeting and profiling skills

An attentive national government would surely have realized that the Gulf region of the United States is more vulnerable to high energy hurricanes. Indeed, Hurricane Katrina was the third most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the US.

Masters and Johnson were upsuck skeptics, which is also really fun to say.

Some of the ideas discussed during the consultations include suggestions for mechanisms to mitigate regulatory risk to increase the role of the World Bank and regional development banks in risk mitigation through increasing the leverage for their guarantees and to strengthen local currency lending.

Numerous e commerce merchants have followed Tmall s Double 11 sales promotion, with JD.com the strongest competitor.

Intensive screening of blood donors and testing of donated blood have reduced the risk of transmission through transfusion.

One of the main focus areas of the Task Force would be strengthening capacity and coordination for risk reduction.

The rainfall sustained across much of Yunnan, while some regions had thunderstorm, short time strong rainfall, hail, gale and other severe convective weather.

Now, he said, we know from experience that the farther up from the ground you go, the stronger the wind blows.

The prevalence of Chinese style during Olympic Games reflects China's increasingly improved comprehensive strength and international influence.

Reducing risk by strengthening disaster management must be a principal aim of the international community.

On May 23, 1967, a strong solar storm caused strong interference to the radar and radio communications of the US military in the Arctic.

Thus, it's expected to make landfall in Mexico at tropical storm strength in the afternoon or evening on Monday.

6. Emphasizes, in order to build resilience, particularly in developing countries, especially those vulnerable among them, the importance of addressing the underlying risk factors identified in the Hyogo Framework for Action and the importance of promoting the integration of risk reduction associated with geological and hydrometeorological hazards in disaster risk reduction programmes

Recognizing further that certain measures for disaster risk reduction in the context of the Hyogo Framework for Action can also support adaptation to climate change, and emphasizing the importance of strengthening the resilience of nations and communities to natural disasters through disaster risk reduction programmes,

Emphasizing also the importance of integrating risk reduction into development planning and post disaster recovery,

It is estimated that Fangshan District will still see a sustained rainfall and there will be geological disaster risks in mountainous areas and shallow mountainous areas.

Just a month ago, before Hurricane Katrina hit, a hurricane specialist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kerry Emmanuel, published a paper in the British science magazine Nature, showing that tropical storms are now lasting one and a half times longer than they did just a few decades earlier, with spinning winds that are now 50 per cent more powerful.

Hurricane intensity is expected to increase as greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rise.

Male infidelity within marriage is highlighted throughout the literature as a major risk factor for married women.

Stronger regional governance structures may be the only effective means of reducing exogenous geopolitical risk.

One approach is to mainstream disaster preparedness and risk reduction concerns into broader governance and poverty reduction programmes that are likely to run in longer cycles, and to boost the capacities and engagement of high risk countries with the deployment of disaster response and risk reduction advisers.

Affected by Typhoon Trami, the strong winds constantly blew in the harbor basin and the maximum wind speed even reached 24 knots. The sailing signal was delayed by nearly 90 minutes from 1 00 pm on September 30. The wind speed was still not reduced, so the Race Director Anne Mallédant announced to cancel the race of the first day and postpone the race to the afternoon on October 1.

21. Emphasizes that it is important for sovereign risk assessments made by private sector agencies to be based on objective and transparent parameters

Account must also be taken of the social climate and the fact that rape victims face exclusion and rejection.

High ice motion was correlated with the intensity of cyclonic activity, heat advection and the increase of snow accumulation on the ice sheet.