calamities that our country faces are storms and floods. According to PAGASA‚ flood is a natural hydrological phenomenon. The purpose of this essay is to enumerate and explain the causes of flood‚ which are tropical storms‚ global warming and tsunamis. One of the causes of flood are tropical storms. According to the Forces of Nature website‚ storms get water from oceans and bring it towards land. Streams and rivers sometimes cannot handle the heavy rain so water overflows and produces flood. One
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This research paper will identify the economic impact of natural disasters‚ focusing on Hurricane Katrina. I certify that this is original work and research for ECON 211 Macroeconomics. Overview Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named tropical storm‚ fourth hurricane‚ third major hurricane‚ and first Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It first made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane just north of Miami‚ Florida on August 25‚ 2005‚ then again on August 29 along
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ESS Analysis of Hurricanes Thesis Statement: A hurricane is a type of tropical storm that forms in the southern Atlantic Ocean‚ Caribbean Sea‚ Gulf of Mexico‚ and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes can cause significant damage to coastal areas and even several hundred miles inland‚ depending on the strength of the storm. Hurricanes can cause winds above 150 miles per hour and are categorized 1-5‚ depending on the strength of the winds‚ with 1 being the calmest and 5 being the harshest
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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 is very important because it gives people
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Hurricane Katrina started a tropical depression on August 23rd‚ 2005. On August 27th‚ President George W. Bush declared a state of emergency for the states of Louisiana‚ Alabama‚ and Mississippi. By August 28th‚ Katrina become a Category 5 hurricane. However‚ when Katrina made landfall in Louisiana on August 29th‚ 2005‚ it was a weakened Category 3 hurricane. As Katrina made landfall‚ the levees in the greater New Orleans area began to fail causing large amounts of water to begin flooding the city
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was the most powerful to hit South Florida in over 30 years. Hurricanes are one of the most destructive natural disasters. They are very powerful and dangerous storms. Hurricanes usually start over warm sea near the equator. Even though these tropical storms also known as hurricanes start off weak‚ they can strengthen causing lots of damages and the lives of others. There are two factors that are responsible for causing hurricanes .Warm water and moist‚ warm air are the factors. When the moist
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El Niño is a climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters along the tropical west coast of South America. El Nino has an impact on ocean temperatures‚ the speed and strength of ocean currents‚ the health of coastal fisheries‚ and local weather from Australia to South America. El Niño events occur irregularly at two- to seven-year intervals. However‚ it is not a regular cycle‚ or strictly predictable in the sense that ocean tides are. El Niño has long been recognized
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created it. What improvements were made to weather prediction due to this event? What economic impact did this event have? In 2012 Hurricane Sandy began as a low pressure system which developed sufficient organized convection to be classified as a tropical depression. In the immediate term‚ three factors have come together to make Hurricane Sandy what it is: A huge storm with winds gusting up to 90 mph (145 kph) set to make landfall somewhere on the East Coast Monday night. First‚ hurricane season
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the storm bad like conditions‚ human error and large waves. The way the Hurricane hit the Eastern U.S was a surprise to all. The storm started somewhere off the coast of Africa as a tropical storm. It started small but grew as it moved across the West Atlantic Ocean at 20 mph. Soon the winds reaches 74 mph.The tropical storm had become a hurricane. The storm kept growing as it moved towards longisland. Soon the storm was 500 miles wide and had winds of more than 155 mph. The storm went from a category
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word meaning "big wind". Views of hurricanes can be seen from a satellite positioned thousands of miles above the earth. Hurricanes originate as tropical disturbances over warm oceans with trade winds. The tropical turbances intensify into tropical depressions‚ and eventually into a tropical storm. They only originate in the tropical trade winds because the ocean temperatures are quite warm there. Powered from the heat that the sea gives off‚ they are steered by the east trade winds and
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