Hurricanes and Tornadoes Whoa look outside what’s that outside!? A hurricane or tornado now you can tell the differences! Their similar how are they different? Did you know that hurricanes are about 300 miles wide‚ although they can be wider? Hurricane winds always rotate to the middle of the storm. Tornados are thunderstorms‚ which are made up of large‚ super cells. You need warm‚ moist air‚ after the masses meet they create instability in the atmosphere. The typical wedge tornado is straight
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Air Masses There are many components when it comes to understanding different types of weather systems. When it comes to weather‚ many vital parts such as air masses are very important to understand. One might ask‚ what is an air mass? An air mass is a large body of air that has similar temperature and moisture properties (ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu). When there are similar characteristics and temperature and humidity within an air mass this is called its source region. The source region is
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Severe Weather Storms: Hurricanes and Tornadoes A hurricane is an extremely violent tropical cyclone. The origin of the term Hurricane originates from a Mayan Storm god by the name of Hurakan. He was a Central American idol who believably caused the storms. Years later‚ the hypothesis of someone creating angry storms has been corrected. It is known that these storms are an act of nature by God’s laws at work. The term hurricane just stuck with the weather condition. Another source states
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SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY FOR WEATHER FORECASTING Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location and over the years many techniques have been used to forecast the weather‚ Satellite technology is one of it. The history of weather forecasting and early satellite programmes was told using archive film‚ highlighting the difficulties associated with a lack of weather data. Two hundred dedicated weather satellites have been
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Geo-Engineering: Controlling the Climate and Weather Recall the pleasure derived from the last time you took a walk through a park on a day when the weather was perfect. The sunshine was bright‚ the temperature was perfect‚ and perhaps there was a slight breeze that left you the ultimate feeling of refreshment as it caressed your face. Or perhaps you can remember the last time you enjoyed the sounds and smells of a light April shower that left the trees and grass looking so green and the air
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Suggest why many countries find El Niño weather anomalies very challenging.(10)Countries in the Monsoon climatic region of SE & S Asia depend on the rains that come with the precision of Calender dates (due to the precise dates of Sun’s seasonal shift as per Calender dates). It is essential for their agriculture‚ where countries with huge populations have to feed them‚ made possible with assured crops. Any variation in timing & rainfall quantum affects their crop production adversely. It also leads
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7 Study Figure 7. (a) Suggest why many countries find El Niño weather anomalies very challenging.(10) El Nino is referring to the dramatic change that occurs in the walker circulation cell and in other areas but I am going to focus on this specific area‚ where the usually south-easterly trade winds going from west of South America to Australia and Indonesia across the Pacific Ocean reverse or severely weaken. This occurs usually every 3-7 years and can last between 12-18 months. During an El
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is caused by a virus‚ not a certain type of bacteria. This virus belongs to a class of viruses called coronavirus. Since SARS was an outbreak caused by a virus that was previously unknown‚ scientist named the virus that causes SARS‚ SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). World Health Organization (WHO) physician Dr. Carlo Urbani identified SARS as a new disease in 2003 when he diagnosed a severely ill 48-year old businessman who was traveling from the Guangdong
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Is “extreme weather” caused by manmade global warming? Global warming is one of the most significant issues in today’s society for the reason global warming is making worse such as super storms‚ droughts‚ heat waves‚ etc. In this case‚ global warming has made more tenuous‚ for example tornadoes. However‚ people in today society consider that extreme weather caused by manmade. Manmade to the global warming is a major influence on extreme weather. In brief‚ as mentioned above one can see that people
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Isolation and depression are constant throughout "As For Me and My House not only in the storyline‚ but in character development as well. Sinclair Ross creates believable characters by using the climate and weather as a way to emphasize their feelings and emotions. Depression and isolation are the obvious themes that emerge but through out the story a want for more is evident. It is not merely a desire for material possessions but more the desire for an emotional void to be filled. Mrs. Bentley displays
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