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 Andrew developed from a tropical wave that developed off the African coast on August 14‚1992. On the 16th of August it became labeled as a tropical depression and on August 17th it became a tropical storm and traveled northwest towards Lesser Antilles. By August 21‚ Andrew was midway between Bermuda and Puerto Rico and turning westward.On the morning of August 22th‚ the storm continued to strengthen and became a category 4 hurricane with winds of 175 mph. After briefly weakening over the
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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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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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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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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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john banks US History 1302 Mr. Owens 1. A. The title of the book I chose is Isaac’s Storm: A Man‚ a Time‚ and the Deadliest Hurricane in History B. The author of this novel is Erik Larson C. This book was first published in 1945 by The Pelican Publishing Company D. This book is about the horrible hurricane of September 8‚ 1900 on Galveston Texas that destroyed the entire city. The story is written through the eyes of a local meteorologist named Isaac Cline who studies everything about
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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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