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Sentence Examples The storm has officially made landfall, squarely hitting the island of Cozumel and bringing with it 20-foot waves. Said to be the original landfall of Christopher Columbus, it is graced with elegant Bermudian and colonial-style buildings. The worst of the storm surge always accompanies the eye wall as it makes landfall because that's where the winds are the highest. The waves hammering the shore cause the bulk of the damage in a hurricane landfall. On landfall she was hoisted from the boat, and the journey continued as before, on foot. Hurricane Emily still packs a punch and increases fears about floods in northeast Mexico hours after making landfall. Moreover, the ships transporting his cavalry were beset with contrary winds, and were never to make a landfall in Britain. The storm's impending landfall has sent millions of people inland to escape fierce winds and a deadly storm surge. Morison researched Columbus's second voyage, which had made landfall at Dominica and then gone north. But a long stretch of the Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to Florida's eastern panhandle, could take the brunt of this hurricane's next landfall. Whakatane is the chief service town for the eastern Bay of Plenty and was the landfall for the first Maori arrivals. In 1492, Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the Western Hemisphere in The Bahamas. The sudden appearance of Europeans after the first landfall of Christopher Columbus in 1492 had a cataclysmic effect upon them. It has lost strength, but it's still on track to make landfall near the southern Texas coast. The largest and best known lighthouses are the landfall and major coastal lights. It was the first landfall for ships sailing from Europe to destinations in North America. Brazil is said to be interested in using the port of Walvis Bay as a landfall for exporting products to fellow Portuguese speaking country Angola. The walkers journeyed along the Meridian Line from its first landfall on the North Sea coast at Tunstall to the banks of the Humber at Sunk Island. Third Rhum, third night-time landfall? in four years time, I'll leave eight hours earlier or later! It is a scene that has changed little from when Christopher Columbus made landfall here for supplies and water on his legendary voyage to discover the Americas. Show More Sentences Because the island was the final landfall before passage to America, ships would load up on Madeira's wines, both as a product to sell and to use as ballast. We made landfall at Barra in September last year, and once the rain stopped and the sky cleared, agreed that the scenery was as beautiful as anything we'd seen on our trip. They too were flying over water but, fortunately, they were able to make landfall without further incident seven minutes later. The proposed development plan for the Venture gas project includes a pipeline landfall at Country Harbour on the eastern shore. A percentage of the water molecules that make landfall also infiltrate the soil and become stored in underground reservoirs known as aquifers. Coming from the Caribbean, we made our landfall at Cayo Largo. And on making landfall in Bermuda he decided that this was the place to settle for a while and get writing songs. As Sandy approached landfall six months ago, news media struggled to decide what to call the meteorological phenomenon. As they approached the coast of Western Australia the wind blew too heavily for the ship to make landfall and they had to heave to with close reefed topsails. After donning kilos of thermal underwear, Goretex and gumboots, all topped off by mandatory red life-jackets, we pile into the Zodiacs for our first landfall. Sherkin was a pirate kingdom for a brief period of prosperity, providing beaches for careening ships, a safe landfall and opportunity for carousing. In calm seas and glorious weather, the ship made landfall off the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken, and secured to the Admiralty buoy in Cumberland Bay. This storm is bearing down on Jamaica, not making direct landfall, but we're seeing enough thunderstorm activity that we may see mudslides as a result. East coasters might be aware of a mild autumn breeze currently making landfall over the mid-Atlantic coast. Tropical cyclone Nathan has made landfall in the Northern Territory as gale-force winds lash the northeast Arnhem Land coast. Forecasters are warning that a hurricane making landfall at or near New York City could cause catastrophic damage in the U.S.'s largest urban center. The objective of the project is to reduce error in landfall forecasts in the Bay of Bengal. But when the storm makes landfall, you get the small waves along with the big, all mashed together in a disorganized jumble. The Northeast is also much exposed to tropical cyclones, with four out of five cyclones making landfall there. The storm track all weekend pointed to a Gulf Coast landfall. Show More Sentences After whacking North Carolina, Hurricane Irene made its second landfall in New Jersey Sunday morning. At one point on Wednesday, my margin of safety was down to four miles and I was forced to spend the whole day at the oars to avoid making an impromptu landfall. Fixed light stations are coastal landfall lights that assist mariners in determining exact location when navigating coastal waters. They will be invited to participate if a proposed pipeline project includes a Yukon landfall. Breaking waves ride over each other reddened by the lividity of a fulminous sky, mount and collapse, as they wrest down a tall toppling ship not far out of landfall. Alekseyev's boat is believed by some to had made landfall in the vicinity of the Kamchatka River, further down the coast of Kamchatka. On 29 April, Cook and crew made their first landfall on the mainland of the continent at a place now known as the Kurnell Peninsula. Generally they make landfall along the southern coast of Zhejiang, and affect the area with strong winds and stormy rains. Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10-E left Lae, Papua New Guinea, on July 2, 1937, and never made its next landfall, Howland Island. Using a small brigantine and ten native canoes, they sailed along the coast and made landfall in cacique Careta's territory. Tornadoes can also be spawned as a result of eyewall mesovortices, which persist until landfall. On February 26, 1606, he made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland, near the modern town of Weipa. This was the case on the western Florida coast in 2017, just before Hurricane Irma made landfall, uncovering land usually underwater. The exact location of the landfall has long been disputed, with different communities vying for the honor. Wind speed estimates aboard the QE-II luxury liner of the winds prior to landfall indicate a powerful hurricane moved through Canadian waters, however, comparison of ship winds to buoy winds is challenging. The Neumayer weather forecaster had been sending us meteorological forecast maps which showed a perfectly circular cyclone with tightly drawn isobars indicating high wind speeds about to make landfall in our sector. This year marks the quatercentenary of the Dutch arrival in Australia, when the ship Duyfken made landfall off Western Australia. The Big Island offers the first landfall from the America mainland 2,400 miles away, followed by Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu and Kauai. The rest of our route back did not take long at all as we were able to latch onto the south-westerly flow which propelled us at an average speed of 15 knots to our landfall at the CDK yard. Tideway Offshore and Marine Contractors, DEME's oil and gas specialist, also succeeded in strengthening its position in the field of trench dredging as well as landfall construction and precision stone dumping in deep waters. Show More Sentences If supple, network-mediated coordination of this type could help people manage the highly dynamic circumstances that followed Sandy's landfall, might it perhaps also prove useful under less volatile conditions? It is here that Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan made landfall in 1520, encountering the tall Tehuelche tribesmen whom he called Patagones, after a mythical character in a chivalric tale, leading to the region's name. The cyclone has approached from the east after crossing the Gulf of Carpentaria from Queensland's Cape York Peninsula where it made landfall as a category four storm but caused minimal damage. The other two winning tickets were sold in New Jersey, including at a store in Little Egg Harbor, which is still recovering from the damage wrought by Superstorm Sandy, which made landfall just a few miles away. They had heard the forecasts that Juan would almost certainly make landfall near Halifax, bringing with it hurricane force winds, high waves, and a record-level storm surge. Sometimes with landfalling hurricanes in Canada, the storm surge peaks near the time of landfall, whereas, the highest waves can lag the storm by an hour or two. Hurricane Bill passed over grand Miquelon France before making landfall near midnight Sunday night at point rosie on the Burin peninusla of Newfoundland. First of all, I'm going to talk about it all the way from where the fish make landfall, i.e. Johnstone Strait, through the gulf into the river, keeping in mind that your missing fish is only the part that's above Mission. Teams are also being deployed to the north of the country in anticipation of a new and even more powerful storm, Parma, which is expected to make landfall this weekend. The new data obtained enables better prediction of the intensity, trajectory and the landfall of these storms and the occurrence and intensity of associated storm surges. The width of the horizontal blue band in time series 1 represents the amount of noise made by the wind about two and a half hours before landfall. It reached Category 5 status as it made landfall in Mexico. Storm surges associated with tropical cyclones can hit coastal areas well ahead of the landfall of the actual storm, with nearly the same rapidity as tsunamis, but they occur much more frequently. Scilly is situated far into the Atlantic Ocean, so many American vagrant birds will make first European landfall in the archipelago. He made landfall at the gloomy bay of San Julian, in what is now Argentina. He announced he was retiring from the race on making emergency landfall in Cape Town. In 991 the Vikings sacked Ipswich, and their fleet made landfall near Maldon in Essex. Moderately vigorous monsoon depressions form in the Bay of Bengal and make landfall from June to September. After calling at Madeira and the West Indies, the fleet made landfall off the coast of Darien on 2 November. Items from Napoli began to make landfall all along the south coast of England as far east as the Isle of Wight. Show More Sentences New exploration voyages were launched by Venetian John Cabot, who in 1497 made landfall in North America. The landfall of a tropical cyclone occurs when a storm's surface center moves over a coastline. In addition, hurricanes can carry toxins and acids onto shore when they make landfall. Radar plays a crucial role around landfall by showing a storm's location and intensity every several minutes. The smallest storm on record, Tropical Storm Marco, formed during October 2008, and made landfall in Veracruz. For a very long time, it was believed that Columbus and his crew had been the first Europeans to make landfall in the Americas. This course proved successful and on 4 November 1497, the expedition made landfall on the African coast. On the landfall island, Columbus made first contact with the Lucayan and exchanged goods with them. After making landfall Vespucio decided to separate from the flotilla and he sailed south towards Brazil. Since 1851, the Lake Okeechobee Hurricane of September 1928 is the only hurricane to make landfall as a Category 5 hurricane. On 26 February 1606, Janzoon made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland, near the town of Weipa. The Duyfken chart, which shows the location of the first landfall in Australia by the Duyfken, had a better fate. The ship made landfall at the Pennefather River in the Gulf of Carpentaria. On 20 February 2016, Fiji was hit by the full force of Cyclone Winston, the only Category 5 tropical cyclone to make landfall in the nation. Acoustic information as a distant cue for habitat recognition by nocturnally migrating passerines during landfall. The storm was likely to make landfall late Thursday in Andhra. His first landfall was at Newfoundland and the second at Cape Cod. Samar at dawn on the 16th March 1521, making landfall the following day at the small, uninhabited island of Homonhon at the mouth of the Leyte Gulf. His fleet of 13 ships sailed far into the western Atlantic Ocean, perhaps intentionally, where he made landfall on what he initially assumed to be a large island. For this reason, there are teams of meteorologists that move into the path of tropical cyclones to help evaluate their strength at the point of landfall. Show More Sentences Most strong storms lose their strength very rapidly after landfall and become disorganized areas of low pressure within a day or two, or evolve into extratropical cyclones. This is the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent. Fishermen have traditionally used seabirds as indicators of both fish shoals, underwater banks that might indicate fish stocks, and of potential landfall. Lighthouses are usually the first aids seen when making landfall. The combination of the hurricane making landfall near the time of high tide, and the large waves generated by the storm, resulted in major ocean overwash and beach erosion. Since 1945, 16 tropical cyclones have had tracks similar to Kirogi's and most had wind speeds less than 90 mph when they made landfall or bypassed the coast near Tokyo. Huaning continues to move west northwest at 20 kmph as it passes above extreme Northern Luzon before heading to Taiwan, where it is expected to make landfall. The Big Island offers the first landfall from the American mainland 2,400 miles away, followed by Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu and Kauai. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, and made landfall on 26 February at the Pennefather River near the modern town of Weipa on Cape York. The initial landfall seems to have taken place close to the southern latitude, with the expedition returning home after reaching the northern one. The stepped-frequency microwave radiometer, along with the dropsondes, enabled the Hurricane Hunters to show the hurricane strengthen in the final hours before landfall. Examples from Classical Literature But we may, at least, settle the long-disputed question of the landfall of Columbus. The distance from the landfall to this point was nearly 300 leagues. To come upon a settlement upon the Amazons is like landfall at sea. He had watched hour after hour since first New York had risen out of the blue indistinctness of the landfall. It made the landfall different from all the others, somehow. That landfall in the Spanish Main was as soundless as a dream. Now he was anxious for the landfall, keen for the show-down. Yes, we can almost make a landfall on them if you got the positions right. Cyclone Hellen became one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded in the northern Mozambique Channel before weakening and making landfall in Madagascar. Last weekend, several Baird's sandpipers made landfall in Britain, including a muchadmired juvenile at Traeth Dulas, Anglesey, joined there by curlew sandpipers. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of landfall? Words that rhyme with landfall What is the plural of landfall? What is the adjective for landfall? What is the noun for landfall? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Landes landers Lander lander landed land-dwelling landfalling landfalls landfill landfilling landfills landform 8-letter Words Starting With l la lan land landf landfa landfal