Earth Science

Blizzards certainly affect the economy both for good and for ill. Blizzards are severe snowstorms usually accompanied by high winds and what are called “white-out” conditions. In white-out conditions, traffic grinds to a standstill. People are force to stay home…
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Cyclone, twister, or tornado. All violent and destructive natural disasters that leave behind devastation and nothing else. A tornado is a whirling wind of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground. If forms in a funnel or cone…
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Hurricanes are one of the most fascinating yet most destructive of meteorological phenomena.  Though there is generally several days warning time when a hurricane is approaching, mankind is still powerless to stop it.  There is little to do but evacuate…
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Hailstones are the precipitation that falls from the sky in the form of a circular and or an oddly shaped lump of ice. They often can vary in size; some being only the size of a kernel; some great in…
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The flash floods hitting the northwestern Pakistan in July-August 2010 have been termed the country’s worst ever humanitarian disaster. An estimated 14 million people in Pakistan have been affected by the massive floods caused by torrential monsoon rains that lashed…
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  Before the start of each Hurricane Season (June 1 – November 30  5), meteorological forecasters predict the number and intensity of hurricanes (Hurricanes classified from a category one to a five. Most destructive hurricane sustained winds greater than 155 miles…
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The July 19, 2006 storm started as a small super cell along the Minnesota-Iowa border. The super cell dropped across eastern Iowa along a stationary cool front, where it developed into a squall line heading for the Illinois State capitol…
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Weather effects everyone, from the birds, right up to major government projects. The recent increase in tropical cyclone, or hurrican activity as it is known in the northern hemisphere, has ensured that some people are addicted to hearing the latest…
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El Nino . . . in Spanish, “The Christ Child”. So named, in the 1800’s, by the fishermen of Peru who noticed the event always occurred around Christmas time . . . thus the name. But the phenomena is hardly…
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Hurricanes, or tropical cyclones, form over water, and are fed from the moisture and warmth beneath them. They are also most prevalent during the summer and fall because a lack of turbulent air in the upper atmosphere allows them to…
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