Word: mph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Windy day. The forecast said 15-25 mph with gusts up to 50. We stayed indoors for practice. The workout: CII ergometer6K for those who hadn't done it yet, and 50 minutes steady-state for everyone else. I was planning to do an hour but my back started to hurt and I stopped after 53 minutes and did the weight circuit. I wanted to go down this morning but my back was sore after yesterday's work and a poor night's sleep so I stayed in bed; that first step out of bed is the hardest...
...resplendent in oranges and greens, swirled on television screens; mass-market CNN and cultish Weather Channel competed for wide eyeballs with nonstop coverage. On September 11, CNN.com could already trumpet the coming of Floyd "picking up steam," though it was still in its Category 2 infancy, crawling at 10 mph, and hundreds of miles from the Florida Coast. On the 14th, it was close to Category 5, and 500 miles wide. Forecasters were crediting it with a mind of its own, and if to say that if a monster that big and that smart was heading for Florida, well, then...
...warm water is released upward into the cooler air, creating dense clouds and a concentrated area of low pressure that surrounds a spiraling, eerily calm eye. Powerful, counterclockwise winds pick up speed as they move over and feed of off warm water, and when they reach speeds of 74 mph or more, the storms are reclassified as hurricanes. Unfortunately for residents of the eastern U.S., the Caribbean and Central America, late-summer conditions in the central Atlantic offer a perfect breeding ground for the destructive storms. In fact, the U.S. hurricane season, which extends from June to November, will often...
...Presidential Range in northern New Hampshire is home to the world's worst weather, at the peak of Mt. Washington. Winter wind speeds of 231 mph have been recorded at the top of the 6,288-foot mountain...
Winter wind speeds of 231 mph have beenrecorded at the top of the 6,288-foot mountain...