... seen before but what was also happening on the whole world at the time. Now the enemies finally attacked their small, warm, blue island in the Caribbean. Phillip's father had worked in the refinery where he was working on the program to increase production of aviation gas for the war. Being that ... torpedoed at about three o"clock in the morning on April 6, 1942, two days after leaving the island, resulting in their separation and lost at sea. A long time after he was lost at sea, he opened his eyes to see, as he described, " a huge, very old Negro. He was ugly. His nose was flat and h...

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Hurricanes are severe tropical storms that form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes gather heat and energy through contact with warm ocean waters. Evaporation from the seawater increases their power. Hurricanes rotate in a ... release heavy rains as the warm air rises. Surface air spirals inward and upward in a counter-clockwise direction to fill the partial vacuum, reaching tens of thousands of feet above sea level to become the hurricane's eye. While the eye is almost calm and is often exposed to blue sky, the winds ne...

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... combine to produce the violent winds, incredible waves, torrential rains, and floods we associate with this phenomenon. Each year, an average of ten tropical storms develop over the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. Many of these remain over the ocean. Six of these storms become hurricanes each year. In an average 3-year period, roughly five hurricanes strike the United ... bring. In fact, tropical storms can also produce significant damage and loss of life, mainly due to flooding. A hurricane is a severe tropical storm, that forms in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribb...

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... Capricorn. Tropical storms can also develop over the South Atlantic Ocean and the eastern South Pacific Ocean. Each year, an average of ten tropical storms develop over the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico (Fitzpatrick 15). Hurricanes are known by different names in different parts of the world: typhoons (in the Western Pacific) and cyclones (in the Indian Ocean) are ... damage depending on what other weather features they interact with, where they strike, and how slow they move. The official hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin (the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea...

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... equatorial Pacific. In general, warm El Nino events are distinguished by more tropical storms and hurricanes in the eastern Pacific and a decrease in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea (Hurricanes, 2000). El Nino provided the wind patterns that were aligned in such a way that the vertical wind shear was increased over the ... Caribbean and Atlantic. The increased wind helped to prevent tropical storms from developing into hurricanes and in the eastern Pacific it proved to help create more storms. Coastal residents receive warnings ... ...

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... Red Spot's longitude is not stable. It is also the largest known storm in the entire solar system. The vast storm spins like a cyclone. "Unlike a low pressure hurricane in the Caribbean Sea, however, the Red Spot rotates in a counterclockwise direction in the southern hemisphere, showing that it is a high pressure system. Winds inside this Jovian storm reach speeds of about 270 mph ... ...

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