La Palabra Del Día: "huracanado"
huracanado ( hoo-rah-kah-nah'-doh )
adjective ( hurricane-force, gale-force )
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1: El centro estaba muy vacío debido a los vientos huracanados.
Downtown was really empty due to the hurricane-force winds.
2: Los vientos huracanados zarandeaban a la lanchita.
The gale-force winds buffeted the tiny dinghy.
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Volamos por turbulencia intensa, pero a pesar del vientos huracanados nuestros piloto aterrizó sin incidentes el aeroplano y se recompensó de los pasajeros con un aplauso largo y ruidoso.
We flew through heavy turbulence, but despite the gale-force winds our pilot landed the 737 safely at RDU and was rewarded by a long, loud round of applause from the passengers.
En Australia un huracanado se llama un ciclón.
In Australia a hurricane is called a cyclone.
TROPICAL CYCLONES ARE intense, spinning storm systems, with low-pressure centres that can be vast in size. They form over warm oceans and can wreak havoc when they approach the shore.
As the names suggests, tropical cyclones and hurricanes occur in the world's tropics. They require the difference in speed of rotation of the Earth at different latitudes to gather momentum as they spin, and they can form either side of the equator.
Cyclones are called hurricanes in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific, typhoons in Southeast Asia, and cyclones in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific around Australia.
They have predicted gale-force winds.
Han dicho que va a haber vientos huracanados.
Dudo que alguna vez voy a experimentar vientos huracanados en Nuevo México.
I doubt that I will ever experience hurricane-force winds in New Mexico.
Los vientos huracanados causaron una devastación terrible en Haiti en un tiempo muy corto.
Hurricane force winds caused terrible devastation in Haiti in a very short time.
Cuando vientos huracanados vienen a una isla, no tiene ninguna proteccion.
When gale-force winds come to an island, it has no protection.
Debido a que vive en el sur de Alabama, mi hermano ha experimentado vientos huracanados varias veces, y hemos tratado de convencerlo para mudarse aquí y para esperar los volcanes y los terremotos con nosotros en lugar de esto, pero se casó con una sureña y nunca va a irse- pero ha pensado en mudarse a la parte norte del estado.
Because he lives in the south of Alabama, my brother has undergone hurricane strength winds a number of times, and we have tried to convince him to move here and wait for the volcanoes and earthquakes with us instead, but he married a southern woman and never is going to leave- but he has thought about moving to the northern part of the state.
In Mexican slang, instead of saying "¡bien!", we say "¡vientos!" (something akin to awesome, cool), or "vientos huracanados" if you really want to be overboard (great, super awesome), as exclamation or to express acceptance of or agreement with something.
En el español coloquial de México, en lugar de decir "¡bien!", decimos "¡vientos!" o "¡vientos huracanados!, si quieres hacer mucho énfasis, como exclamación o para expresar aceptación o acuerdo.
--Estoy saliendo con mi vecina
--¡Vientos huracanados!
--I am dating my neighbour.
--Cool!
Holy hurricane winds, Batman!
Yo no habría ido a la ciudad si yo supiera que los vientos huracanados iría a llegar
I would not have gone to the city if I knew that the hurricane winds were going to arrive
Tormentas de categoría cinco experiencia vientos huracanados superiores a 156 millas por hora.
Category Five storms experience gale-force winds greater than 156 miles per hour.
Se necesita urgente ayuda en Haití debido a vientos huracanados.
Urgent help is needed in Haiti because of huricane force winds.
All images in graphic are from Huricane Matthew in Haiti. President Obama of the United States suggested to the Amercian people that we can help Haiti by donating to the American Red Cross.
Aunque es posible que deba desalojar la zona debido a un huracán, también hay situaciones en las que es posible que tenga que buscar protección de los vientos huracanados.
Although it is possible that one might need to evacuate the area due to a hurricane, also there are situations where it is possible that one would have to look for protection from the hurricane force winds.
Hace dos semanas en el estado de Australia del Sur, vientos huracanados destruyeron el suministro de electricidad en el estado entero. La fuerza el viento era más que nunca antes. Me da miedo que en el futuro el cambio de climático continuará crear eventos extremos como esto.
Two weeks ago in the state of South Australia gale-force winds destroyed the electricity supply in the whole state. The force of the wind was greater than ever before. I am afraid that in the future climate change will continue to create extreme events like this.
