Inthe old days they used to have planes go into the eye of the hurricane to tell the weather as in lines 9-11 "Between altitudes of 1,000 to 10,000 feet, Hurricane Huntrs fly through three parts of a hurricane: an eye, an eyewall, and spiral rain bands. Now we have satelite that takes photos of the earh and shows us how big the storms are. W also use a stick called a Dropsonde Hurricane Sensor. This new technology helps us out because the U.S Air Force uses this 24/7 to scout if any hurricanes are coming in lines 8-12. It also helps because it helps the people know either to get ready for a storm incase it could be a dangerous…
The story Winter Thunder was inspired by the winter storm of 1949. There was also a mega-storm to hit Nebraska in 1888. It was called the schoolchildren's blizzard. It was called this because thousands of school children died when an unexpected blizzard had struck while the children tried to get back from school in the blizzard. On winter thunder while the school children were trying to get home, they got stuck in the snow so they had to try to get back home without a bus.…
In the book “the Signal and the noise”, author Nate Silver talks about prediction from many different angles. Silver explains how prediction is a part of our everyday life and how it affects us. From math to history, inside of a class room or on a court/field, prediction is something we deal with on a day to day basis unconsciously. Silver talks about the benefits of failure and how failure is helpful in the long run with making predictions. Throughout the years we have made progress with predictions.…
Rough esitmates of how strong a hurricane may be is important. It is important because it can potentially save the lives of many innocent citizens. Knowing the strength of a hurrricane coming, news reporters can warn the citizens to evacuate, if needed. "Satellite survelliance does…
Hurricane Matthew is testing the new effort by utilities and the government to make the nation’selectric grid more storm-resistant. From 2008 through 2017, the U.S. government and utilities aresupposed to spend more than $32 billion on things like smart-grid and storm-hardening technology. Thatalso includes systems that are made to resist wind, flying debris and flooding. It also allows powerproviders to identify damage and restore electric power faster. Hurricane Matthew did not really provided the kind of weather forecasters feared at first, but it is stillproving to be a deadly and disruptive storm.…
WC-130s are flown by the Air Force Reserve to help the National Hurricane center forecast the hurricane better. In recent news, the WC-130 flew through 185 mile per hour winds to collect data and track Hurricane…
The beginning of any storm the first thing to do is get the word out. Technology is key when it comes to spotting storms. ”The United States is launching a new series of satellites that will help scientists track and predict the paths of storms”(Lauber). It is very important that the United States uses good…
An ariplane called AT-6, which happens to be a two-passenger fighter plane, was the first airplane ever to be flown into a hurricane. This airplane and the people within it, led to a great deal of exploration. Within altitudes of 1,000 feet through 10,000 feet, the hurricane hunters travel through the eye, the calmest part of the hurricane, the eye wall, the roughest part of a hurricane, and the spiral rain bands, which have heavy showers of rain that swirl inward. These airplanes gather data which is sent to weather stations. With this data, researchers can gather the conditions of the hurricane including miles per hour, location, or time and place of its landfall, and descibes how serious a hurricane is.…
NOAA is an organization that was created by the government for the purpose of monitoring ocean waters and the weather of our nation. NOAA monitors and forecasts the atmosphere along with the help of the NWS or the National Weather Service (http://www.weather.gov/). Both of these organizations have important jobs and both save several every year. NOAA is primarily responsible for studying oceans on the atmosphere for the purpose of learning more about them and predicting impacts of the atmospheric changes. The National Weather Service’s primary focus is to forecast and study weather conditions in the US.…
The DVD depicts how devastating hurricanes can be and how destructive they are. The video shows how many people are uprooted from their homes and families and how it effects them emotionally.…
Last week Meteorologists predicted the category three Hurricane, Joaquin, to make landfall hitting the Carolina’s. Gratefully it never made landfall, but unfortunately the Carolina’s received trillions of gallons of rain from the hurricane. Florence County flooded very badly; streets resembled Miniature Rivers, golf-courses looked like The Rapids, bridges were completely washed out, homes completely flooded, people were being evacuated, etc. Last Thursday night the rain started, it was unlike a regular thunder-storm that we usually experience in South Carolina. The rain was heavier than normal and it felt like the rain was all coming down at one time, the wind was abnormally stronger, and it stayed constant throughout the night.…
This century is full of exploration, but instead of using devices that get us no where to finding treasure, we have strengthened our minds and created the best technology around for things such as finding metal on a beach with a metal detector to something called a mailbox that has found hundreds of dollars worth of coins. In the passages of Florida Waters Treasure Hunters (by Scott L. Key), Weather Reconnaissance (by Harriet Jane Caldwell), and High Tech Search for Ancient Civilizations (by Juan De Los Santos) we are addressed to technology that is so advanced for researchers and explorers today, with the devices structure and efficiency. In the 20th century, we have learned about techology for civil wars, World War 2, and more, but we have…
Career and College Research Paper “The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.” (Epsy). Meteorology is the study of climate change and weather, another word for them would be an atmospheric scientist. The use of highly developed instruments and complicated tools and technology makes this a job you can not take frivolously.…
It is clear there is no problem with perception or prediction as the meteorologist new about the possible chance of a hurricane almost a week before it hit land, although it is difficult to understand how much a storm can grow it is possible somewhat. It is clear what the US needs to do in future to prevent damage and loss of life due to hurricanes; they need to concentrate on prevention. It is not possible to stop a hurricane but there are measures that can be taken to reduce damage and increase services so inhabitants can escape the impending danger of natural disasters. Disaster prevention includes modifying your home to strengthen it against storms so that you can be as safe as possible.…
This stage is the weakest form of a tropical cyclone. In the United States, the National Hurricane Center is responsible for issuing advisories upgrading or downgrading tropical activity. To gather information about the developing tropical cyclone, reconnaissance aircrafts are sent into it by the National Hurricane Center, or NHC. These aircrafts collect data like wind speeds, to aid in making classification changes.…