Tropical Cyclones
Introduction
You wake up in the morning to the sound of rain rattling against your window. You look down on the floor which is ankle deep with water. The howling of wind fills your ears and you realize that there is a hurricane happening. You are panicking as you go around the house looking for your family but none of them are there. After a few minutes the water has reached you’re reached your head. You can barely breathe anymore as you start to choke. Every year many people are severely affected by tropical cyclones. Tropical cyclones have many more recognizable names such as a typhoon or hurricane. Whenever a disaster such as a tropical cyclone occurs it causes devastation to families by killing or injuring family/ friends and destroying homes. One of the most known North American hurricanes is Hurricane Katrina 1836 people and it cost 81 billion dollars in property damage. Although we now have devices to detect when a tropical cyclone is coming towards us we are still trying to increase our vulnerability to these kinds of natural disasters. These kind of natural disasters happen year around all over the world. Although a tropical cyclone can happen anywhere there are many more places where this kind of natural disaster were to happen.
What is a Tropical Cyclone
A tropical cyclone is caused by a rather small, which is a strongly developed low pressure cell that is often created throughout all kinds of warm oceans. The diameter of an entire tropical cyclone can through 200-2000 km which is a massive distance that can cover a large area of the sea. A tropical cyclone is specifically characterized by its warm center. A tropical cyclone is also characterized by its immensely steep pressure gradients and mighty ...
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...clone is in the Northern Hemisphere. Cyclones have a great impact on the coastal parts of Eastern Asia, Madagascar, east coast of Central and North America and most of the Caribbean.
Formation of a Tropical Cyclone
The formation of a tropical cyclone is a slow formation. The creation of a tropical cyclone is created when there is a disturbance in the pressure pattern forms and slowly starts to build into a tropical cyclone. The formation of a tropical cyclone requires a few circumstances to allow it to form. The energy and heat of a tropical cyclone is drawn from the cyclones contact with the oceans warm waters. The standard time that a tropical cyclone starts its formation is at 5 am to 8 pm in the Northern and Southern hemispheres the adding of moisture caused by the evaporation of the seas warm water from the seas surface helps to power the tropical cyclone.
In small islands the numbers of cyclones are dominated both by El Niño Southern Oscillation and variability, the result is a reallocations of tropical storms and a change in the routes taken by them.
The development of the storm was initiated by an apparent tropical wave that had given way of the African Coast around August 5th. The cloud pattern of the storm slightly resembled that of an inverted “V” began traveling westward, then northward, across the Atlantic Ocean and was recognized as a tropical disturbance 4 days later, August 9th. The following 5 days or so the storm continued to travel showing no sign of circulation. On August 14th the United States Air Force sent a reconnaissance aircraft into the storm for surveillance, with a growing concern. What was about to be Tropical storm Camille was still south of Cuba with expectation to become much more potent. At the point of infiltration by the aircraft the planes barometer revealed a 999 millibar pressure center with 55 mile an hour surface winds. At this point the disturbance was inaugurated to be a “tropical storm.” As the intensification process ensued, and the squall shifted northwestward at a slow speed of 9 miles per hour, but gained a great amount of force in...
It is truly one of hurricane lore’s greatest storms. Such greatness had innocuous and humble beginnings. Like all hurricanes that have existed, is existing, and will exist, the hurricane originated within the waters of the world and from the winds of the world. The temperate waters of the eastern North Atlantic Ocean gave rise to the storm upon August 31, 1900. Its birthplace is roughly 400 miles west of Africa’s Cape Verde Islands (Longshore).
Hurricanes are born over the warm waters of tropical oceans and are formed by a low-pressure system caused by the heating of water. The heat causes the air to rise and form lower pressures in a feedback loop, making the hurricane stronger. Heavy rain results from a condensation of water and strong winds develop from warm air rushing to the eye of the hurricane. Essentially, greater storms and winds occur when the hurricane feeds of the rising temperature of the water. In addition, researchers studied disturbances and intense thunderstorms in the atmosphere over Western Africa and believe they are partly to blame for extreme hurricanes affecting the United States and Canada. While these are all the main ingredients of a perfectly natural process, they were not the primary causes of the damage done by Hurricane
In certain areas of the world hurricanes are a part to life and although Katrina looked as if it was going to be a rough and dangerous storm many people who live in the gulf thought they would be able to handle what was storm had to offer. The storm itself, while although dangerous and cause damage it was the infrastructure and the levy the really ended up turning this disaster to the magnitude it ended up being. Hurricane Katrina provided to be a storm that not only the citizens were not able to handle but also the government was ill prepared for.
Tropical waters serve as the perfect breeding and growing place for a hurricane. Storms, such as Katrina, are able to develop because of the availability of water vapor over tropical oceans. This creates the ideal environment for the growth of a hurricane (Ahrens & Sampson, 2011).
Hurricanes are extremely large area’s of low pressure that are over the ocean in either the North Atlantic ocean, or the eastern North Pacific Ocean. If a hurricane is in the western Pacific Ocean than it is called a typhoon. One in the Indian Ocean is called a cyclone. The danger region of a hurricane is normally in the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean. The hurricane season is the six month time period from June-November. The peak month of hurricanes is September.
Hurricanes are powerful and destructive storms that involve great rain and wind. The United States of America has dealt with many hurricanes that have cost a great amount of damage. However, there is one hurricane that happened in 2005 that stands out among the others, Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst hurricanes to hit the United States, a category 5 on the Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Scale. An estimated 1836 people died because of the hurricane and the floodings that happened after (Zimmermann 1). Katrina initially beg...
Hurricanes begin as tropical disturbances in warm ocean waters with temperatures of at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit. These low pressure systems are served by energy from the warm seas. If a storm reaches wind speeds of 38 miles an hour, it is known as a tropical depression. A tropical depression becomes a tropical storm, and is given a name, when its sustained wind speeds top 39 miles an hour. When a storm’s sustained wind speeds reach 74 miles an hour, it becomes a hurricane and earns a category rating of 1 to 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Hurricanes are large storms that form over warm ocean water and moist air. These storms are usually pushed toward a landmass by winds blowing in a particular direction. For instance, the trade winds will blow hurricanes toward the United States coast. Over the past hundred and fifty years, the United States has made changes for how these storms are detected and tracked. These advances help protect human lives and property. This is how hurricane alertness has changed.
Hurricanes are one of the deadliest and most expensive natural disasters around. They are more common in areas of humid yet moist weather so they are very foreign to certain places. But to the places were hurricanes are the norm, the people take them extremely seriously because they kill people and ruin countless amounts of property. Hurricanes can attack and harm people in so many ways they can kill people, leave them homeless, it leaves children orphaned and disable them. On the west coast of the United States and other places hurricanes aren’t taken as seriously as other more common disasters, such as, earthquakes and volcanoes yet the hurricane can be a lot more damaging that both of those. Hurricanes are cyclones that develop over warm oceans and breed winds that blow yup to 74 miles per hour.
... on lands which makes it harder to produce plants that can provide needs for the people. Drinking water can be polluted too that will make it harder to use to fix food. Damages from typhoons can cause millions of dollars to recover. Businesses, private or public, can also be affected by the typhoon by being closed to the community. When businesses are closed, they lose an amount of revenue to itself, and the community will also have hard time of getting what they need or want. People will suffer in the lack of supplies that they need. Typhoon Bopha did affect the country of Palau by limiting some of the resources that people need in order to carry on with their lives. We can only hope for less damages from natural disasters and learn from the outcomes and prepare us on many ways to prevent major damages the next time to help us sustain in a better economy.
The places that are most often hit with tornados are: Antigua, Bermuda, Central America, Charleston, SC, Galveston, TX, Miami, Providence, RI, Santo Domingo, Asia, Honduras, Oceania, United States, and the West Indies.
A hurricane is a type of natural disaster that can be harmful and destructive to anything in its way. Every year five to six hurricanes are formed, damaging and destroying people’s homes, landmarks, and anything in its path (“Hurricane”). Before a hurricane is developed it is known as a tropical storm. To be a tropical storm wind speed must be at least thirty eight miles per hour (“Hurricane”). Once wind speeds reaches seventy four miles an hour it can then be classified as hurricane (“Hurricane”). Large scale storms, like hurricanes have a variety of ways to measure the sev...
A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be more than one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. In the body of my essay, I will tell you about types of tornadoes, where tornadoes come from, where and when tornadoes occur, the damage they inflict, variations of tornadoes, and how to detect tornadoes.