From September 9 to September 11, Ophelia fluctuated in strength, being downgraded to a tropical storm only to regain hurricane intensity three more times; during this time it moved very slowly and erratically in a northeasterly direction.
Some would have us believe that the IPCC has downgraded the strength of the evidence and the degree of threat.
When KDFC, the popular commercial classical radio station, was sold to the University of Southern California in January and bumped down to 90.3, the nonprofit end of the dial, hundreds of thousands of classical music fans lost the ability to hear the station's offerings, thanks to the downgraded signal strength.
By September 17 , 1999 the storm, downgraded in strength to a tropical storm, was situated over New England.
Steadily decreasing in strength, the storm was downgraded to a tropical depression before passing to the south of the Hawaiian Islands.
said, estimating that if A. M. Best downgraded the financial strength of A.I.G.'s property and casualty businesses, premiums could decline by about 50percentt.
A.I.G. fell $1.73, or 5.1percentto to $32.28, after A. M. Best Company, which specializes in rating insurance companies, downgraded its financial strength ratings on the company.
Moody's Investors Service on Thursday downgraded the financial strength of WestLB in Düsseldorf, once one of Germany's largest banks, to the lowest possible rating.
In its annual report, the Hartford Group said that if its financial strength ratings were to be downgraded by three notches from where it stood in February, it "could begin to trigger potentially material collateral calls on certain of our derivative instruments".
After this crossing, it was subsequently downgraded to storm strength the same day and on October 11, to a depression.
