surface wind in a sentence
Examples
- Typhoons are defined as having minimum surface winds of at least 118 kph ( 74 mph ).
- One possibility, said Stute, is that surface winds in glacial times could have muddled the ocean record.
- A tropical storm is a warm-core tropical cyclone with sustained surface winds of 39 to 73 mph.
- A tropical storm becomes a typhoon when its surface winds reach 118 kph ( 74 mph ).
- The surface wind speed was then estimated at 145 mph, about 80 percent of the high-level wind.
- Meanwhile, sporadic showers will dampen the Washington and northern Oregon coasts as moist, onshore surface winds persist.
- The surface winds currently are too strong for any kind of a balloon launch at this moment,
- CYGNSS will measure the ocean surface wind field using a bi-static scatterometry technique based on GPS signals.
- At the same time, strong surface winds from the southwest in International Falls pushed the mercury upward.
- Wind waves also act to modify atmospheric properties through frictional drag of near-surface winds and heat fluxes.