Tropical cyclone meteorology

Hurricane Katrina was a horrifying Category 5 Hurricane in New Orleans, with about $81 billion of property damage. Hurricane Katrina had help from beginning to after the hurricane.I believe the principle of federalism had a major part of contributing. Before Hurricane Katrina, there was a lot of warnings of this terrible weather to come. The Local, State, and Federal government were the main contributors. The Local, State, and Federal government are layers of the Federalism System. They…

Katrina vs. Harvey According to NASA, hurricanes are the most violent storms on Earth. Most of them, as reported by the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, hit during the peak of hurricane season, which is between August and October on both the Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific coasts. The two most memorable hurricanes—Katrina and Harvey—made their landfall in the United States in August. In addition to this, the two hurricanes share many other similarities and differences.…

Have you ever seen a hurricane strength? Hurricanes are dangerous because of their wind speed and its ripe tides. Hurricane season begins June 1st to November 3rd. Hurricanes forms as a tropical cycle, but then with its warm water it would make energy and form a hurricane. Hurricanes are dangerous because of their wind speed and the destruction it causes. Hurricanes have strong wind speeds. A hurricane has 5 stages of wind speed the lowest wind speed is 75 mph and it will strike people, live…

Typhoons, and Cyclones..."). With that being said, all hurricanes are formed between the Tropic of Cancer( 23.5 degrees north latitude) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5 degrees south latitude) due to the warm ocean water temperatures provided in those two areas. (Ouellette 11). Furthermore, the formation of hurricanes are separated into four different distinctive stages. Hurricanes start off as a bundle of thunderstorms known as a tropical disturbances( "Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones...").…

“We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness”, stated by the philanthropist and model Petra Nemcova. It has only been 11 years, since hurricane Katrina transformed, killed, and hurt over a thousand people along the Gulf Region, and especially New Orleans (CNN, 2016). Within a matter of days thousands of children and adults had nowhere to call home, because home was no longer there.…

A 100 and 500-year flood will create city-wide damage to residential, commercial, and municipal infrastructure. Fargo had many major floods that brought many properties, homes, and buildings submerged under water and created destruction. For instance, 1997 and 1897 Red River floods were the biggest floods that occurred in Fargo, North Dakota that flooded most of the city. After 1997, the government built stronger neighborhood and city dikes. Besides, each flooding warning, the government orders…

Dr. Dan Hafling, an emergency department physician, researcher, and director of emergency management at Inova Health System states quite simply “until events of Sandy’s magnitude come along, emergency preparedness is just a box that has to be checked” (Begley, 2012). Following the disaster caused by Hurricane Irene, New Jersey hospitals should have been well prepared for any adversity brought by Hurricane Sandy. Though there was an effective and quick reaction towards recovery once the storm had…

Every store you could think of whipped out of food and water due to the massive hurricane on its way. August 23, 2005 - August 31, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit which affected several states mainly New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of Houston was affected as well as Galveston. It left many people in Louisiana without shelter, clothing, food and water due to the massive flooding throughout the city. Everyone evacuated before it got worse. Majority of the people came to Houston, Texas. Everyone in the…

Under the sea? Certainly there were many wondering whether or not Charleston was going to become the next Atlantis; a city submerged completely under water due to some catastrophic event, to forever be lost in history and time. Well, that did not happen, but due to the low pressure system delivered to Charleston via Hurricane Joaquin, the whole peninsula did experience a great deal of flooding that cost citizens millions of dollars in damage and even cost several their lives. But the question…

The Great hurricane of 1938 September 21,1938: The Great New England Hurricane occurred. There were more information found out about this storm. Information such as the conditions of the storm, in impacts the storm had, and the human error that was made during this storm. The conditions of the storm. The conditions of the storm was not all that well. The winds reached about 80 miles per hour, and there was high pressure fronts. There was prior rain in New England for four days straight. There…