@NASAGoddard, Copyright © 2020 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Forums | Journals | Store |-- The DU Lounge |-- Places Severe Storms, NASA Goddard Space |-- Ask the Administrators the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC. At the time of this image, Ioke was estimated to have sustained winds of 115 knots (132 mph) by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. | Donate, About DU |-- Latest Breaking News It reached Category 5 status three different times! Ioke is the Hawaiian word for the name “Joyce.” Storms and hurricanes in the central Pacific are unusual, but they occur often enough for there to be a naming convention, applied by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu. It reached the category 5 stage several times and became a super-typhoon after crossing the international dateline. © 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground,
This image of Hurricane Ioke shows the powerful Category 4 hurricane as it was passing well south of the Hawaiian Islands in the Central Pacific. On August 22, 2006, Johnston Atoll was struck by Hurricane Ioke.
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That was the case here.
It's to say that we shouldn't mistake "since 1960" as meaning "for all time.". Nevertheless, Hurricane Ioke had sustained winds of around 185 kilometers per hour (115 miles per hour), according to the University of Hawaii’s Tropical Storm Information Center.
LLC, Which is not to disprove global warming at all. Hurricane Ioke started as all tropical cyclones do, as a depression—an area of low atmospheric pressure. Twelve people were on the island when the hurricane struck, part of a crew sent to the island to deliver a USAF contractor who sampled groundwater contamination levels. Damage was nearly $100 million. In 2006, Hurricane Ioke rampaged across the Central Pacific and traveled all the way into the Western North Pacific, where it was officially pronounced … Hurricane Ioke started as all tropical cyclones do, as a depression—an area of low atmospheric pressure. Ioke is expected to continue moving to the northwest and slowly weaken with the center passing near to Johnston Island.
The storm then became Typhoon Ioke. It has since traveled more than halfway across the entire Pacific Ocean. | Contact Us | Privacy Policy.