Describe And Evaluate The Causes And Effects Of Hurricanes

The waves were still high at 10 feet. The power started going out when the storm was about 40 miles from land and 1.4 million people were without power (Provenzo JR. & Provenzo, 2002). It slammed into the Bahamas at 120 mph. Where buildings were toppled, bungalows out from their roots, and luxury hotels only had broken winds (Longshore, 1998). Several days before it had produced a deep convection, that had high pressure (Rappaport, 1993).

By 5 p.m., the Bureau office was recording sustained hurricane-force winds. That night, the wind direction shifted to the east, and then to the southeast as the hurricane's eye began to pass over the island just west of the city. By 11 p.m., the wind was southerly and diminishing. On Sunday morning, clear skies and a 20 mph (30 km/h) breeze off the Gulf of Mexico greeted the Galveston survivors.[4] The storm continued on, and later tracked into Oklahoma. From there, it continued over the Great Lakes while still sustaining winds of almost 40 mph (as recorded over Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and passed north of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on September 12, 1900.[8] From there it traveled into the North Atlantic where it disappeared from observations,[3] after decimating a schooner fleet fishing off the coast of

Hurricane Katrina moved over Florida at an abnormally slow pace for hurricanes (about 8 mph) which meant that it had more time to cause damages in the state. When it reached the Gulf of Mexico it became a Category Three storm, which is the minimum classification necessary to be called a major hurricane according to the Saffir-Simpson Scale. As the storm moved across the Gulf of Mexico, it crossed paths with a circular movement of water called the Eddy Vortex in which “the water temperature…[was] warmer than the surrounding ocean.” Because warm ocean surface temperatures are a key ingredient in intensifying hurricanes, that gave rise to Hurricane Katrina growing into from a Category Three to a Category Five storm in “less than 12 hours” (Keller, 352).

The weather was very warm, but there had been rain storms, so the water in the earth was warm mud. The conditions “couldn’t have been more perfect”(video) for a hurricane. The hurricane formed in The Cape Verde’ islands off the coast of Africa. It came towards Florida where two meteorologists prepared the state for a hurricane.

the time it hit the United States on October 29, it was a Category 3 hurricane. It

Hurricane Katrina began as tropical Depression twelve, which formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005. On August 24, the storm strengthened and became known as Tropical Storm Katrina, the 11th named storm of the 2005 hurricane season. A few hours before making landfall in Florida on August 25, Tropical storm Katrina was upgraded to Hurricane Katrina (Category1, 74mph winds). An analysis by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) climate prediction center

In August 2005, the national weather and the national hurricane center issued reports during the upcoming week on the strength and fast pace as it approached the Gulf of Mexico (Treaster, 2007, p. 44). On August 23, 2005, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Florida issued the first advisory about the tropical storm (Brinkley, 2006, p. 4). At

This storm was no normal hurricane, it grew and grew and grew till the conditions were terrible. The hurricane of 1938 started off the coast of Africa as a thunderstorm. Then it moved toward Florida, ships reporting heavy rain, strong winds, and waves. Meteorologists expected it to hit Florida and start heading north and die down. The storm turned into a tropical cyclone and missed Florida and heads north. Once the cyclone hit the cool water it does not die it grew stronger and turned into a storm surge. Soon it’s right outside

The first mistake the Jacksonville’s weather bureau made was to call all extra relief workers and coast guards from New York and New England down to Florida to prepare for the storm. While looking out and protecting Florida, they took many needed hands from the northeast, which was hit harder. Their second mistake, a more important one, was to assume this storm was another typical Cape Verde hurricane because it began to veer northward. Those storms were known to curve away from the tropics at first opportunity and head north for colder water where it would soon die off before hitting the US. It followed this specific course by the Bermuda High currents, “a mass of dense dry air that dominates the weather in the North

This storm had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It had great winds of 100–140 miles per hour, and stretched about 400 miles across. This hurricane destroyed many towns across the gulf coast mostly in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama causing more than $100 billion in damage. (History.com, 2009)

For example, Hurricane Maria, that name has been retired due to its destruction, reaching wind speeds of 160 miles per hour as a Category 5 passing first through the Caribbean. Hurricane Maria then worked its way demolishing Puerto Rico with wind speeds of 150 miles per hour and pouring out about 40 inches of rain causing it to flood (AccessScience Editors, 2017).

Hurricanes are one of nature’s most natural occurrences and intense phenomenal storms. Yet, as phenomenal as they are, they are still one of the deadliest and disastrous natural occurrences that continue to plague costal residents with fears of their homes being destroyed, their towns wiped out, and loved ones either disappearing or dying.

One of the most deadly natural disasters to takes place in the United States occurred in 2005. Throughout the Southern states of Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and in the Gulf of Mexico killing thousands of people and destroying multiple business and land structures. Hurricane Katerina had been nationally televised showing clips of the water raising, people standing on roofs calling out for help, people loading the stadium and other forms of chaos that had taken place. There are multiple challenges that I believe the authorities had to face when processing this scene for evidence. The first being the collection of bodies, many people due to hurricane drowned and were trembled over by buildings or houses which fell down. Their bodies decomposed and some not fully intact from injuries that took place while the hurricane was in progress.

As summer comes to a close in the eastern United States, tropical hurricanes are making sure it goes out with a bang. The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 2017. Several small hurricanes occurred in the southeastern states, but caused minimal damage. Two hurricanes in particular set new records and caused considerable damage as they roared over the southeastern States.

Beyond a doubt we urgently need to address the devastating global issue of population growth in the United States America before we destroy our planet. We are facing many devastating economic problems, such as pollution, global warming, education, but the most critical is overconsumption. Overpopulation is a huge problem in the United States of America, which is causing us to run out of natural resources. The human race is already too large and is destroying the natural systems that support us. There are many solutions to this problem, but the common factor is controlling the human race. What can we do as a society to help contribute to controlling the population growth? “The United States is the most overpopulated country in the world”. (Ehrlich)