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NEWFOUNDLAND SEES POWERFUL WIND EVENTS
Dr. Joel Finnis, a climatologist and meteorologist with Memorial University’s Geography department, is interviewed about recent powerful wind storms in the province.
Dr. Finnis said last week’s storm brought sustained winds over 80 kilometres an hour, with gusts exceeding 140 kilometres an hour.
"Sometimes those are called atmospheric bombs, bomb cyclones, or explosive cyclogenesis — they’re the same thing: a rapidly intensifying low-pressure system."
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The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Memorial University was established in 1961 to foster and undertake research into the many social and economic questions arising from the particular Historic, Geographic, and Economic circumstances of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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