Chapter 26: Hurricane Camille Hurricane Camille was a disastrous storm with catastrophic damage including the destruction of many towns and lives even after making landfall and weakening. As most tropical systems, Camille began as a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa. Camille began to strengthen as it moved across the Atlantic reaching hurricane strength as is approached Cuba. Once Camille entered the Gulf of Mexico, Air Force reconnaissance measured wind speeds of up to 200 mph and a central pressure around 901 mb. Evacuation was strongly recommended for areas along the Gulf from Louisiana to Florida, though some residents refused to evacuate the area.
Discuss the impacts of storm events in the British Isles and evaluate responses the responses to them. (40 Marks) Storm events in the British Isles are caused by depressions which form out in the Atlantic Ocean and are brought to us mainly by the tropical maritime air mass moving north-east over the British Isles. A depression is a low pressure weather system formed where two different air masses meet along the polar front, this occurs rapidly as they are driven by prevailing westerly wind. They appear as masses of swirling clouds when viewed on satellite images, subsequently due to Coriolis effect resulting in an anticlockwise rotation in the northern hemisphere. The associated air masses of storms within the British Isles are Polar maritime and Tropical maritime.
Normally you would think that if you hear the word “tornado” you would start panicking and start asking where and when is it going to happen. What would you say if someone tells you: “ Did you see the beautiful tornado that was formed yesterday in the evening”; you start wondering why that person used the word beautiful and tornado in the same sentence. People see tornadoes as dangerous natural phenomenons, but they don’t tend to know much about their power and are blinded by what they are told and shown, that their idea of what a tornado really is, is actually a distorted image. A tornado is a rotating column of air, in contact with the ground. In order to be a tornado it has to be in contact with both the ground and the cloud base.
You could feel it’s mighty hot and steamy outside but within minutes a hurricane like storm can come down on you. So, if while you wait for the bus you encounter a typical
The men go into a small town and bill notices katzs drinking again and tell him he will not buy him beer. This starts a fight between the two men. Chapter 20 They continue the AT and Katz tells Bryson of all the loneliness that has made him begin to drink again. When Bryson goes to fill up the water bottles at a nearby stream, Katz gets lost again. Bill goes to look for him, but can’t find him.
Then the low-pressure system matures along the west-to-east atmospheric highway also known as jet stream; then a storm will move slowly along the jet stream that would produce the large waves (Warshaw 2000). When the waves are created we have to take into consideration that the bottom of the wave since it is a great factor in why the
The Historical Accuracy of The Odyssey Homer wrote The Odyssey in which Odysseus travels to many locations and comes across trouble trying to get back to his homeland, Ithaka. After a storm blows him off course he arrives at the Kyklops’ island. Then he sails to Aiolos’ island and receives a bag of wind in which his crew members foolishly open and they were blown back to Aiolos’ island. Later they sail past a monster which eats some of his crewmembers. Homer composes parts in The Odyssey that are fictional; however most of The Odyssey is accurate such as the locations and creatures that appear in the epic poem.
Effects of haboob to aviation are that it causes wind smear, damages a plane’s engines, and affects landing and taking off among others. This paper aims to explore some of the negative effects haboob causes to aviation. Introduction Haboob refers to a dust storm that is common in regions that experience extreme drought conditions (Miller, 2010). These regions mainly include arid and semi arid areas. When it occurs, there is transportation of large quantities of dust particles or sand particles affecting transportation through limiting visibility.
They strengthen when water evaporated from the ocean is released as the saturated air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapor contained in the moist air. There are several similarities between hurricanes and tornadoes. First of all, both are unpredictable, incredibly devastating and can easily kill. Other than that, both are made up of very strong and fast wind which is more than 100 mph. Furthermore, both of them rotate all around.
They are born from tropic waters that affect quite a few across the world but in the Gulf of Mexico they tend to wreak particular havoc. These storms have potential for mass devastation through storm surges that flood the coastline often taking lives and possible contamination of water supplies, heavy rain which contributes to flooding situations and high winds coupling with tornadoes that destroy property, Storm surges are among one of the worst factors of a hurricane. Often, at the time, people do not even realize the impacts a storm surge can have and do not head authorities warnings to evacuate the coastline, which can result in a high death toll. As Jay Barnes notes in his research: As a hurricane churns across the open sea, the combined effects of the storm’s lowered barometric pressure and strong, inward-spiraling winds create a deep, swirling column of water beneath the ocean’s surface. This effect causes the sea level to rise in the vicinity of the storm, creating a dome of water that may be a few feet high in the center and a hundred miles wide.