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    THE RAPIDS OF DARK MURKY WATER WASHED ALL THE LEAVES AND LOOSE GRAVEL OFF OF THE GROUND. IN THE HEAT OF THE STORM IT WAS STRONG AND VIGOROUS. NOT THE SLIGHTEST SMALL CREATURE OF ANY POUND COULD WITHSTAND IT. I WAS CAUGHT IN WHAT SEEMED TO BE A WHIRL POOL OF BASHING WAVES AGAINST THE BURROWS OF THE COLONIAL LAND. I KEPT THE WAVES BENEATH MY FACE AS I WAS SWEPT AWAY FROM MY DWELLING. THE WATER LICKED MY BODY AS I WAS CARRIED TO A DISTANT LAND. THE SOUNDS OF VIOLENT THRASHING, THE SENSATION OF SMALL

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    watch siren goes off. You try not to go into a panic mode. You gather all the family into the cellar. You hear raging winds whipping, the roaring of the rampaging tornado, and you had just gotten into the cellar with a few seconds to spare. After the storm is over, your family and you open the cellar door. You look around. You’re surrounded by the remains of your house. In real life when you hear the warning siren go off, you only have

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    What is the best weather model? Is it the GFS? Is it the EURO? Is it Naomi Campbell? No, the best weather model can be the "look out the window" model. Observing nature can be an incredibly useful of forecasting the weather. The following weather sayings are not always accurate, but they are accurate enough to be useful. "Halo around the sun or moon, rain or snow is coming soon." Using optics to bend light, cirrostratus clouds cause a halo to form around the sun or moon. These clouds are

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    Breathing difficulties, hypothermia (intense fall in body temperatures) and frostbite can take place due to the low air pressures and temperatures. During blizzards, with the combination of cold temperatures and strong winds, very low wind coldness values can occur. It is not uncommon below -60F during blizzard conditions. Exposure to such low wind freeze values can result in frostbite or hypothermia. The wind and ice of blizzard cut down power lines and cut off power to entire communities for a

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    of Oz, except she wouldn’t be going to Oz, she will be trapped in a wild hurricane, in her rickety, beat-up bed. Meg’s mind keeps wondering as she waits for the first noise of the hurricane. Rrrrrrumble. The first sign of the storm. Ready to listen to the rest of the storm, Meg sits straight up. If she hears anyone else up in the house, she’ll go and join them. Waking someone up will make Meg’s family have something else to make fun of her, besides all the other things they said to her before. Meg

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    It was a dark and stormy night. The wind was blowing and causing the old oak trees beside the house to scratch the windows with their finger like branches and make a “screech” sound every time they rubbed against the window. There was the occasional bolt of lightning that would light up the sky as if it was daytime again and would show a dark shadowy figure that almost seemed as if it were moving closer every time the lightning struck. I watched this odd figure and could not understand out why it

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    A snow crystal is known for beauty and remarkable, geometrical shapes and sizes. Snow crystals are mostly known by people as snowflakes. Each single crystals have water molecule that are arrangement vertically in a hexagonal array. They include six symmetric lines and when they fall from winter clouds they collide and connect together as they are traveling downwards. Over thousands of snow crystals fall from the sky into creating very fragile snowflakes. People believe that snow crystals are frozen

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    Denver Hail Damage Repair can do? Keyword(s): Denver Hail Damage Repair Body: Hail storms are prevalent and occur without warning. For car owners who don’t have garage hail storm can damage their vehicle if it is larger than ½ inch in diameter. However, the best to handle hail damage is to seek assistance of a professional who is certified in repairing hail damage. People of Denver are familiar with hail storms that deliver large hail stones that can cause severe damage to anyone’s property. Denver

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    again. In Lubbock those temperatures change in the blink of an eye. One day during school a raging storm occurred out of nowhere and it happens almost every spring. We were in the middle of our daily exhausting track workouts at the beginning of the workout it was a warm 90 or so degrees and after one of our breaks we come back outside a thunderstorm pouring rain. Most of the time the spring rains and storms are not horrible, but this was one for the ages. At first, we heard a light

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    Tornado Forecasts

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    In developed countries, the use of weather radars have become the primary method for the identification of tornadoes. The Doppler weather radar is used in the United States, this system takes measurements of velocity and the radial direction of the storm (Coleman et al. 2011). New technology development has lead to forecasts of tornadoes before they have made contact with the ground. Currently the average tornado warning lead time is 13 minutes (Brotzge & Erickson, 2009). Tornado forecasts are still

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