The Spatial Distributions Of Accumulated Rainfall From Gauge Measurements

Most of the precipitation is around the Gulf Coastal region near Austin and Galveston Island because that is the farthest point of southeast in Texas. Most of the Great Plains will not get nearly as much rain as the Gulf Coastal region because the elevation is a bit higher. The Mountains and Basins region will get little if not no rain at all because of the elevation of that region. The population in North Central is higher than most regions because of the few major cities we have and the growing cities. The regions Gulf Coastal and Great Plains are related because the weather is alike and the population of both regions are close together. The Great Plains and the Mountains and Basins are close related because the Great Plains has big hills

The third and final claim is that stronger winds caused Galetown to have more severe storms. That statement is correct because stronger winds caused the air parcels to rise even higher than it would’ve been, which in turn caused more rainfall. Wind pushed the air parcel even higher in the air, in turn making the air parcel lose more energy. As we know, the higher the air parcel rises in the air, the more rain will occur than before, and even more severe storms. If you look at storm 3 and storm 4 wind strength during the severe storms, it’s a humongous difference! Storm 3 had a light wind strength, while storm 4 had a very strong wind strength. Storm 3 had 8 inches of rain and storm 4 had 12 inches of rain. Based on storm 3 and 4, they both had the same amount of local surface water and high temperatures before the storm, the only difference is wind strength. I concluded that wind strength caused Galetown to have more severe storms.

N. Scott Momaday is the author of the memoir The Way to Rainy mountain. The Way to Rainy Mountain is about Momaday recollecting and remembering his childhood and culture memories while he is on his journey to a ridge that is located northwest of Wichita Range in Oklahoma that his people gave the name “Rainy Mountain” (Momaday 5). His people were the Kiowa people and they are a Native American tribe. The Kiowa people believed “that they entered the world through a hallow log” (Momaday 3). They are also a small tribe because “there was a woman whose body had swollen up with child, and she got stuck in the log”, so no one else could exit the log and enter the world (Momaday 16). Long before the Kiowa people began to reside in Oklahoma they resided near Canada. Momaday tells the story from a mythical view, historical view, and a personal view. Through the mythical view Momaday’s father is telling the myths of his people. The historical view are historical commentaries. In the personal view he tells the memories of his childhood and relates them to the myth his father has told. Animals, landscape and the seasons of the year kindle the Kiowas relationship with nature in which in turns helps the reader better understand and respect the Kiowa culture.

From the CER maps (Figure 9), it can be observed that in 2013 ISMR the entire region had witnessed high CER values while other years were partially cover by cloud drops of different radii. The high rainfall intensity during 2013 ISMR could be the manifestation of the high CER values observed during that year compared to the other years (Figure 12). However, the low CER values in the other years can be seen in conjugation with high aerosol loading during that period. Similar trend is also observed in LWP plots for the study area during 2012-15 ISMR (Fig 13). It is evident from the figure 9 that LWP varies from low to high values over the region while, it is more homogeneous in 2014 and 2015 ISMR. The OLR was considerably

Because the country is located directly in the path of the hurricane belt, winds and rain are stronger, bringing cooler temperatures and causing rainfall that varies from year to year with 53 inches in the east regions, 82 inches in the northeast, and 17 inches in the west. This is typical for this region, and cold temperatures are not at all experienced. Due to this particular type of climate, the country has more than 50 percent of agricultural land use, and 40 percent forest area.

So the simple way of explaining a teleconnection is a warmer and cooler pacific can influence rainfall. “we saw how a vast warming (El Niño) or cooling (La Niña) of the equatorial tropical Pacific can affect the weather in different regions of the world” (Ahrens, 2015, p.271). These major storms as we learned in earlier chapters affect people in many regions of the world. A seasonal forecast is very important because it gives people a chance to prepare for what could possibly be. Forecasters can give a prediction of a wetter or drier season. They have said that this type of forecasting has been seen to be very keen in this field

The tendency towards more intense precipitation events is projected to the future. The more precipitation, the more risk of flooding.More heavy downpours may increase the likelihood of property damage, travel delays and disruption in

The Greensburg storm was unique for several reasons. In addition to its ferocious intensity, the structure of the storm as recorded by storm chasers and weather

Graumann, Axel. Hurricane Katrina. [Electronic Resource] : A Climatological Perspective : Preliminary Report. Asheville, NC : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, National Climatic Data Center, [2006], 2006. Technical report: no. 2005-01. EBSCOhost,

GEOG 104 – Weather Climate Society: You have gotten 283.5/425 66.7% of the available points thus far. I know that this is your most difficult class; however, I have seen you working with your assigned tutor for this class. Please, come every day to prepare for this class. Your Exam # 2 is going to be given this Thursday, November 12th, contact your tutor and prepare very well for this

In N. Scott Momaday’s essay “The way to Rainy Mountain,” He shares his experience of returning to Rainy Mountain after his Grandmother, Aho passes away. He learned that during her death she had the face of a child, this him made remember the time period she was born. Around the time his Grandmother was born, his people, the Kiowas were experiencing the last moments of their rich history. He shares the story of the last Kiowa warriors who surrendered to the U.S cavalry at Fort Sill. Momaday goes on to tell the history of his people and that they originated from Montana three centuries ago, speaking a language that has never been positively identified. The Kiowas became close friends with the Crows, who showed

St. Louis falls into the mellow midlatitude atmosphere gathering, and this is a district loaded with air mass complexities (Hess, 2011). These differentiations cause a mixture of unsettling influences in the air leaving St. Louis with an assortment of climate (Hess, 2011). The summers have a tendency to have more precipitation with the coastal stream and incessant convection (Hess, 2011). However winter can encounter rain and periodic snow due to midlatitude typhoons (Hess, 2011).

There were intense rainfall events that occurred over the Gowrie creek catchment; with an event greater than a 100 year ARI storm experienced at the rainfall gauges

Haiti experienced several severe tropical cyclones in the past 10 years, when the increase in precipitation caused overloading of excess rainwater. As a result, the rivers and lakes of the country have grown in size and have flooded many surrounding areas. One of the watersheds that has been severely affected is Lake Azuéi; its size having considerably increased over the years. Due to the increase in the size of the lake, the surrounding agricultural land was flooded, resulting in the loss of people's livelihood. By studying factors such as climate change (frequency of extreme events), changes in vegetation and precipitation through remote sensing, we can determine the evolution of these factors contributed to the expansion of the lake. Also

The study that was analyzed utilizes a Geographic Information System (GIS) to characterize the spatial patterns of rainfall produced by Irene and to classify other tropical cyclones that took the same track as Irene over the United States. A GIS is a system that is designed to capture, store, maneuver, examine, manage, and present all types of geographical data. In order to use the GIS they first had to identify analog tropical cyclones that took a path similar to Irene over the United States which they obtained from HURDAT. HURDAT, or the North Atlantic hurricane database, is the system that keeps all the records for all tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea, since 1851. Once similar tropical storms were obtained, then the latitude and longitude coordinates from the six hourly positions of Irene were entered into the GIS and the points were then transformed into a line feature. This line feature represents Irene's track and it was buffered by 200 kilometers to allow for the tropical cyclones to be analyzed in this study region. The tropical cyclones that were similar to Irene were then imported into the GIS. Once the buffer was applied there were twenty five tropical cyclones with tracks similar to that of Irene. But the track of the hurricanes wasn't the only thing being studied here, we still have to take