Weather in the eye of the hurricane is usually very calm. Hurricanes form when winds hit very warm waters that reach at least 79 degrees Fahrenheit. Air starts to circulate which helps add more air and force‚ Another thing that helps the hurricane build up is condensation. Hurricanes are a large spinning mass of rotating winds‚ the winds reach more than 75 miles per hour. The tropical storms are usually in ocean areas called basins. These basins include the Atlantic Ocean‚ Gulf of Mexico‚ and the
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1926 Hurricane by Anthea Carnes Before the Storm 1. The Hurricane of 1926 came at the worst possible time for the city of Miami and became known as “The Great Miami Hurricane”. It was the roaring twenties; A time of prohibition‚ speakeasies‚ flapper girls‚ and jazz. Miami had been experiencing a boom economically and in population growth. 2. In the period between 1920 and 1923‚ the population of Miami itself had doubled. People from all over the United States came to South Florida to enjoy
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Hurricane Katrina is in category five of the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. This is the most catastrophic category because of its heavy damage to an area. In 2005‚ the city of New Orleans experienced this tropical storm and collapsed to its mercy. Although the destruction of New Orleans was horrific to the culture and history‚ rebuilding this city to its former ways should be put off until this devastation is sure to not occur again. Investing millions‚ maybe even billions‚ to a city
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Introduction A hurricane is a tropical revolving storm. It is a very large circular area of low pressure‚ driven by evaporation from warm seas. In areas away from the Equator‚ air is drawn into the hurricane to replace the rising air. Owing to the Earth rotation‚ wind in a hurricane spiral inwards in an anti-clock wise direction. Wind speeds can reach 300km/ hour‚ although there is an area at the centre of the hurricane ‚the Eye where conditions are calm. After a hurricane goes through its stages
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Impact of Hurricane Katrina Sid van der Woude Natural Disasters EES:1400:A08 2/19/2015 Once the storm finally passed‚ the flood waters finally receded‚ and the levees were put into some sort of repair‚ Hurricane Katrina‚ through its path of destruction left New Orleans and the surrounding areas in one of the costliest states of disrepair ever seen from a natural disaster in U.S. history. From the damage to infrastructure‚ to the lost jobs‚ to the loss of life‚ Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Web Site Analysis Rate the sites from 1-5 based on the criteria below with: 5=superior; 4=good; 3=acceptable; 2=fair; 1=poor Site Ease of Use Information Educational Value Average Rating Hurricanes: Online Meteorology Guide 4 4 5 4.3 How Stuff Works 5 5 5 5 BBC News: Animated Guide: Hurricanes 3 4 4 3.6 National Geographic: Forces of Nature 5 3 2 3.3 Discover Channel: Hurricane Videos 0 0 0 0 Which site do you rate as the number one site?
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speed. As I pick up my pencil I am a hurricane when I write‚ the words spewing forth onto the paper‚ accelerating with unexpected intensity. But such intensity is impossible to maintain and like an eye wall undergoing replacement‚ the number and speed of ideas grows weaker‚ sometimes wandering off course altogether. But then‚ like a strong gust of wind‚ a new inspiration generates a fresh torrent of ideas that beg to become a part of the story to be told. Hurricanes get their energy from warm moist
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hurricane assessment intro a hurricane is an intense‚ rotating oceanic weather system that has to have a minimum sustained windspeed of 74 mph. Hurricanes only form over tropical oceanic regions because it needs warm moist air to feed and drive the destructive winds that define a hurricane. The majority of hurricanes are seasonal. During certain months in the year a hurricane will develop. The months were they occur vary from place to place.The 3 most common hurricane locations are the atlantic
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Hurricanes and earthquakes are two of the most dangerous natural disasters in the United States. They can be very disastrous and deadly. In the United States‚ there have been 73 hurricanes since 1954. Earthquakes are harder to detect because they have to have at least a magnitude of 5 ("Earthquakes per year‚" 2009). The amount of earthquakes detected in the United States was 1656 in the past 10 years ("Earthquakes per year‚" 2009). The World Meteorological Organization is the organization that can
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HURRICANE SANDY Hurricane Sandy was a tropical cyclone that devastated portions of the Caribbean‚ Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October 2012. The eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season‚ Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record‚ as measured by diameter‚ with winds spanning 1‚100 miles. Sandy is estimated in early calculations to have caused damage of at least $20 billion. Preliminary estimates of losses that include business
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