Hurricanes and tornadoes are a very scary thing to think about, but they have really cool facts . In the next few paragraphs I will be comparing and contrasting both hurricanes and tornadoes, and telling very cool facts about them. The facts are from Source 1, 2, 3, 4 , and Spencer Adkins. So, let's get started with tornadoes in the first paragraph. If you don't know what a tornado is, a tornado is a violently rotating column of air that has contact with both the surface of the earth. According…
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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…
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Oh, no! There goes the cows! Hurricanes and tornadoes can cause undesirability damage. These storms can be caused by many different ways. They occur in many different countries or states. These storms have certain sizes, too! Tornadoes and hurricanes have tremendous sizes, have certain ways to become, and have different areas to happen in. To start out with, hurricanes and tornados are massive and mammoth sized. According to Source 4 "Hurricanes can get up to huge sizes. Hurricanes can get up…
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Tornadoes: How They Form When and Where are They Most Likely to Occur And The Devastation Left Behind Donna Moritz GENS 320 Physical Geography David Pares February 26, 2015 A tornado is a pugnaciously spinning column of air that is in contact with the earth’s land surface. All tornados form from a weather phenomenon known as thunderstorms. Let’s first take a brief look at thunderstorms. A thunderstorm is a storm with lightning and thunder. It’s produced by a cumulonimbus cloud…
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the amount of fatalities associated with tornadoes. Jerry Brotzge, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms of the University of Oklahoma, and W. Donner, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, at The University of Texas, state; “Before technological advancements in recorded years 1912 through 1936, tornadoes killed an average 260 persons per year, about 1.8 deaths per million people when normalized by population” (Brotzge and Donner 2013.) Tornadoes create violent and shifting winds and are…
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world. Some effects we are having since global warming is tornadoes, floods, heat waves, droughts, and so on. The start of Global warming is from the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was the start of all fuels and pollutions from man made products. We made machines and factories which release smokes and it was the start of the Ozone layer thinner. In the Last 14 years we had the hottest years ever. These are facts. They well say by the end of all of this all the world will…
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issue we need to be concerned with? These are the questions that have been asked by many people when any natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes or hurricanes hit their countries. Many people ask themselves why the earth is giving them a hard time. They have no idea why the world is suffering from such harmful disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes. Global warming was never an issue to the earth until the new technologies were introduced. Technologies can help ease hard work and can…
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an educational piece describing the stories of meteorologists and their struggle with weather predictions. Published in 2010, Smith incorporates his own encounters with weather disasters along with America’s history with Mother Nature, especially tornadoes, in this nonfiction book. The story starts off with a phantom accident. A scenario is played where The Vermonter, a train, starts off on its daily route. It encounters a washout ahead and tries to stop, but it was too late. The train plummets into…
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simply memorize facts. Questions? Come to office hours, ask your TA, post to the discussion board on Compass, attend a review session (Thursday, 2:00-4:00; 4:00-6:00; 6:00-8:00). FROM BEFORE: • What is the difference between satellites and radar? -Satellites: views clouds from space -radar: views precipitation from ground • How is wind direction defined? -Wind direction is identified by the direction FROM which the wind is blowing • How do winds blow about high and low pressure…
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Insurance Agent in Minneapolis, offers the expertise and dedication to guide you in the process. Insurance policies can be complex and confusing, but you don’t have to wonder whether you’re adequately covered. Here are some important things to know about your homeowner insurance policy. Homeowner Insurance The Ins & Outs Of Your Coverage: When it comes to your home, you don’t want a cheap insurance policy that’s insufficient for your needs. A typical policy will cover damage to your property and…
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