Hurricanes

... to take the temperature, humidity, and pressure measurements. It took these measurements and put them onto computer cards. Researchers were initially interested in describing the three-dimensional structure of hurricanes and in observing the middle and upper level winds, which were thought to push the storm. The next several years an experiment was carried out in which a balloon radio ... hurricane's eye and the wind center was tracked slightly. The plan also involved setting up upper-air stations around the Caribbean and installing radars in American coastal locations. Photographing h...

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... of damage, the storm surge will. Storm surge is the great tidal waves that crash onto our coasts and make huge floods that are caused by hurricanes. Hurricanes are extremely large areas of low pressure that are over the ocean in either the North Atlantic Ocean, or the eastern North Pacific Ocean. If a ... hurricane if the winds reach 75 mph. The National Weather Service is constantly trying to provide us with data and other information about when and where hurricanes are forming. It has been said that the only way to reduce the number of fatalities in serious storms is to give people mo...

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... a severe tropical storm, that forms in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico or in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes need warm tropical oceans, moisture and light winds above them. If the right conditions last long enough, a hurricane can produce violent winds, incredible ... the most dangerous part of a hurricane Floods and flash floods brought by the torrential rains of a hurricane are dangerous killers. Even though hurricanes weaken rapidly as they move inland, the remnants of the storm can bring 6 to 12 inches of rain or more to the area ... can be very dang...

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... a hurricane the ocean's temperature must be warmer than 81 degrees F. The heat and moisture form this water is the source of energy for hurricanes. Once a hurricane hits land or colder ocean waters the storm will weaken rapidly, because of insufficient moisture and/or heat. The vertical wind ... a tropical cyclone's environment. Wind shear is defined as the amount of change in the wind's direction or speed with increasing altitude (Hurricanes, 2000). When the wind shear is weak, the storms that make up the cyclone grow vertically, and the heat form condensation is released ... the verti...

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... if Georges had hit southern Louisiana, New Orleans would have been a disaster area. It is true that some people overreact to the threat of hurricanes, but even more people under react to them because they distrust the media. This under reaction can cause great losses to the community. We must ... because ignorance can cause major loss, including death. Past fatalities are definitely one reason why people living on the Gulf of Mexico over react to hurricanes. People that have lost love ones to this disaster know that it should not be taken lightly. When there is a hurricane warning, thes...

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... through two stages, tropical depression and tropical storm, before reaching hurricane force. An average of 3.5 tropical storms per year become hurricanes; one to three of these approach the U.S. coast. Hurricanes usually develop between July and October. A hurricane is nearly circular in shape, and its winds cover an area about 500 mi ... 72 cm of mercury), air spirals inward toward the hurricane's eye, an almost calm area about 20 mi (30 km) in diameter. Hurricanes, which may last from 1 to 30 days, usually move westward in their early stages and then curve northward toward the pole. De...

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... air begin to rise. A natural hazard is when extreme events which cause great loss of life and or property and create severe disruption to human lives, such as a hurricane. Most hurricanes originate within the doldrums, a narrow equatorial belt characterized by intermittent calms, light variable breezes, and frequent squalls, and lying between the northeast and southeast trade winds. As the doldrums of ... the National Hurricane Center in Florida, which follows each storm virtually from the beginning. Improved systems of prediction and communication have been able to help minimize loss o...

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... when the water temperature in these regions is greater than twenty-seven degrees Celsius. Hurricane movement is related to the global winds. The easterly winds in the tropics usually steer hurricanes westward. Most storms then gradually swing north-westward around the subtropical high to the north. If the storm moves into middle latitudes, the prevailing westerlies steer it northeastward. A hurricane ... originating in the northern hemisphere moves toward the west veering northward and then northeastward as it moves into more higher latitudes. Because hurricanes receive their energy fro...

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... lives over again, outbreak of infectious diseases are just a few of the things left behind after a hurricane has made its landfall. Hurricanes are one of the most catastrophic natural disasters that are complex to understand. To have knowledge on hurricanes it is essential to be acquainted of what a hurricane is, how and when they form, their characteristics, the areas impacted by them ... restoration of destroyed areas. What is a hurricane? A hurricane is an extremely large, powerful, and devastating storm with very strong winds. Hurricanes can only form over really warm ocean waters, w...

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