The weather may delay the process by two to three days, according to retired Coast Guard Adm.
But Hammond is hopeful that other discoveries on how planes react to extreme weather will arise during the process of the group's studies.
He said that's an easily reversible process once the weather passes: Purge the seawater out, pull the packer out and reinsert the drill string to begin drilling again.
The Weather Channel feels that the naming process makes for quicker media identification, especially via social media, allowing people to track the storm story fast and easily.
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Forecasting was the obvious next step, but it required the development of new theories to explain the weather's behaviour, a process that, as Mr Monmonier explains, was not without controversy.
He loves making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, a decision process at the core of all weather forecasting.
The giant wave coincided with extreme weather and rising sea levels and was part of a process that submerged land beneath the North Sea.
If you add to that process a snowstorm, or just plain bad weather (and really, Iowa in January, is there anything other than bad weather?) you change the game significantly.
The reason: weather forecasts are frequently unavailable at sufficiently localized scales to inform the decision-making process.
In part, it's still the hangover from last summer's storms, but it's also caused by the process of changing over to gasoline that is less polluting in the warm weather, and that procedure is more disruptive this year because distributors are switching from the old chemical called NTBE, which has been found to pollute ground water, to ethanol.
What we'd like to do is to try and understand this process because it will help us understand the dynamics of the Martian atmosphere and Martian weather.
Among other things, the intense weather caused widespread power outages, taking down parts of the Amazon Web Services facility in northern Virginia in the process.
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