Good evening Professor and class. As tasked by this week’s forum below you will find my assessment of QRC193 and how that relates to a given paradigm as well as identification of an associated risk with the case study and how I would mitigate it. First‚ let’s start with the background concerning Simmons and Sutter’s (2007) research paper. Simmons and Sutter’s research paper was prompted following the February 2007 tornadoes in Florida. Three tornadoes (two EF-3’s and one EF-1) spawned one after another
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The recent blizzard that crippled the East Coast and dumped more than two feet of snow across the region garnered the attention of national and international media outlets. Organizations like CNN and BBC provided special coverage of winter storm Jonas‚ focusing on the overall aftermath of the storm. Since the snowstorm impacted the entire coast‚ it would be more effective to draw attention to one specific town. I would choose to concentrate a report on Dumont‚ NJ‚ a small town in northern New Jersey
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Hurricane and Tornado Essay Have you ever been in a hurricane or tornado? Do you know how to prepare for it? You would usually hide in a basement‚ a cellar‚ or evacuate the premises for a hurricane. There are three categories of comparing and contrasting for hurricanes and tornados. The first category I am going to talk about is how much damage does a hurricane and tornado do? The second category I am going to talk about is how big a tornado and hurricane get up to. The last category I am going
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In January 2010‚ an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude occurred nearby the capital city of Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti. As of June 2015‚ 103‚565 internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Haiti continue to live in camps established in the aftermath of the earthquake and‚ according to the United Nations‚ some 70‚000 of the remaining IDPs have no prospect of a durable solution (Human Rights Watch‚ World Report 2015: Haiti). Despite considerable IDP relocations since 2010‚ increasing violence against women and children
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When a tornado forms or passes over a water surface‚ it is called a waterspout. Like tornadoes‚ they form in many shapes and often occur in series or families. Measurements of tornadoes can be a few kilometers an hour to as high as 64 to 80 kilometers per hour. We should know what to do before‚ during‚ and after a tornado has hit our town. Tornados cause much damage and we people should be prepared before a tornado‚ during a tornado and what to do after a tornado. Before a tornado‚ we should listen
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The state of Florida is a vacation and retirement destination‚ with a record 94.7 million people visiting the Sunshine State in 2013 (Jackovics). However‚ south Florida is under an imminent threat that many people refuse to acknowledge. The sea level is rising‚ and southern Florida will be underwater by the end of the twenty-first century‚ unless major projects to save the land begin now (Parker). Unfortunately‚ because south Florida consists of a fair amount of reclaimed swampland and sits at or
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1. Explain how observed teleconnection patterns can help in the preparation of a seasonal weather forecast. So the simple way of explaining a teleconnection is a warmer and cooler pacific can influence rainfall. “we saw how a vast warming (El Niño) or cooling (La Niña) of the equatorial tropical Pacific can affect the weather in different regions of the world” (Ahrens‚ 2015‚ p.271). These major storms as we learned in earlier chapters affect people in many regions of the world. A seasonal forecast
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Hurricanes and tornadoes are some of the most violent natural occurring disasters known to mankind. While there are many differences between the two‚ the stark similarities are as dramatic. Both are centered on gusting wind swirling around a center; however the diameters of the storms are quite different. While hurricanes can range from 100 to 300 miles wide‚ tornadoes usually have only a length of less than two miles. However‚ a tornado makes up for its small size with extremely high wind speeds
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Thunderstorms Kyle Cowan Known as the electric storm‚ thunderstorms occur all the time. When a thunderstorm starts to occur‚ the air starts to cool as it rises. Cumulus clouds start to form as water vapor starts to condense. As condensation occurs‚ heat (latent heat/energy)‚ starts to release from the atmosphere and assists the thunderstorm in becoming created and grow. Soon as the thunderstorm is formed‚ condensation high in the cloud (now in the form of water droplets or ice) starts
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WEVA stands for Walcott Emergency Volunteers Association. Walcott has had a team of volunteers monitoring the sea since 1976 after the sea breached the defences and flooded properties on the sea front including the post office. They were known as Walcott Flood Wardens. Some of them were fishermen so were very familiar with how the weather conditions could cause major problems with the sea. Two of them are still flood wardens today. In 1997‚ the parish council decided that the flood wardens should
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