WEATHER ANALYSIS & FORECASTING ** Weather Analysis: process of collecting‚ compiling‚ analyzing and transmitting the observational data of atmospheric conditions *this data & analysis is then used to forecast future weather conditions * Types of data: * Each weather station‚ 10‚000 around the world‚ collects the same data at the same time‚ at least 4 times per day(0000‚ 0600‚1200‚ 1800 GMT) * Most US stations also collect data continuously or at least every hour
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flood From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Driving through a flash-flooded road Nepal Monsoon A flash flood after a thunderstorm in the Gobi‚ Mongolia A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes‚ rivers‚ dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm‚ hurricane‚ tropical storm‚ or meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods may occur after the collapse of a natural
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misfortune. This may include tsunami; fires; floods; droughts; flood and many others. The major disasters naturally may include earthquake‚ cyclone‚ flood‚ and drought. Minor disasters naturally include storm‚ heat waves‚ cold wave‚ mud slides‚ and thunderstorm. The major disasters that may occur in man made activities include deforestation‚ fires‚ setting of fires‚ and pollution due to their prawn activities. Minor man made occurrence of disasters may include accidents on the roads or trains‚ riots‚
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Amelia Scotney ‘To what extent do urban areas modify their climate?’ – 40 marks. Cities create their own microclimates and their sites are almost always warmer‚ compared to a nearby rural location‚ than if the city were not there. The differences in urban climates are due to a number of different factors. The Urban Heat Island effect is known as the zone of hot air that develops over the urban areas and consequently higher temperatures than the surrounding rural area. Temperatures progressively
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We’ll‚ it’s not actually mine because everyone uses it so I will not refer to it as mine. We’ve had it for about 7 months. Prior to this laptop we had a desktop computer. We had to get a laptop because the desktop computer malfunctioned due to a thunderstorm where it was struck by lightning. Anyway I’m supposed to be describing the laptop so that’s what I’m about to do in the next few paragraphs. The laptop is black. It has a silver logo on top of the face. It also has black buttons except for the
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is Danny Burgin. When weather systems approach‚ Burgin needs toconsider a host of factors in deciding which flights to cancel and how to reroute affected passengers. He arguesthat of two major weather factors‚ winter snowstorms andsummer thunderstorms‚ snowstorms are easier to handle because they are more predictable. Don’t tell tha t toJetBlue‚ however. On February 14‚ 2007‚ JetBlue wasunprepared for a snowstorm that hit the East Coast. Dueto the lack of planning‚ JetBlue held hundreds ofpassengers
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influenced by the sine of the latitude at that region. If it is at equator‚ the latitude is zero degrees and hence sine of it is zero at the equator region. So‚ there is no possibility for the Hurricanes to be generated at the equator. When many thunderstorms rotate at a particular area with low pressure at the center region‚ it is called tropical depression. If the depression intensifies‚ the speed of the winds increase to around 75 mph. Winds blowing at this high speed along with depression are the
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become friends. Like in the story of “romeo and Juliet” they all happily became friend because the main characters both died lying right next to eachother. The reason they became friends is because they got stuck under the tree during a winter thunderstorm. That is when one of the men offered the other one some wine to keep warm and he said no but after awhile they decided that whoever’s group of people got there first they whould let the other one out first. But at the end they got killed by a pack
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dies on the cross to save us from sin. At the end of the movie‚ Jesus is seen alive in the tomb after his resurrection. 2) One of the strangest things that occurred in the movie was in one of the final scenes. After Jesus dies on the cross‚ a thunderstorm comes onto the land. To prove that everyone was dead‚ the centurion went to the criminals on Jesus’ sides and broke their legs to make their death come faster. When the man comes to Jesus‚ he sees that he is already dead‚ and does not break his
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Although they are rarer and have smaller damage paths than other natural hazards‚ tornadoes represent a significant hazard because of their unpredictable and rapid onset of violent winds‚ reaching devastating levels within minutes. Tornadic thunderstorms are the most damaging type of weather faced by Canadians and are of great interest to the human population because of the major social‚ economic and environmental impacts they impose on our lives. When you think of Canada‚ the thought of tornadoes
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