Frame homes, apartments and shopping centers may experience some damage, and snapped power lines could result in short-term power outages. Hurricane Dolly in was an example of a Category 1 hurricane that whipped through southern Texas.
Hurricane Sandy was also a Category 1 hurricane when it hit Jamaica in , but it weakened before reaching the east coast of the United States. Winds range between 96 and mph during a Category 2 hurricane.
There is a bigger risk of injury or death to people, livestock and pets from flying debris. Older mobile homes will likely be destroyed, and debris can ruin newer mobile homes, too. Frame homes, apartment buildings and shopping centers may see major roof and siding damage, and many trees will be uprooted. Residents should expect near total power loss after a Category 2 hurricane, with outages lasting anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. In a Category 3 hurricane, winds range from to mph.
There is a high risk of injury or death to people, livestock and pets from flying and falling debris. Nearly all older mobile homes will be destroyed, and most new ones will experience significant damage.
Even well-built frame homes, apartments and industrial buildings will likely experience major damage, and the storm will uproot many trees that may block roads. Electricity and water will likely be unavailable for several days to a few weeks after the storm.
Prior to making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane, Hurricane Irma was a Category 5 hurricane— the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane on record. During a Category 4 hurricane, winds range from to mph. At these speeds, falling and flying debris poses a very high risk of injury or death to people, pets and livestock. Again, most mobile homes will be destroyed, even newer ones. Some frame homes may totally collapse, while well-built homes will likely see severe damage to their roofs, and apartment buildings can experience damage to upper floors.
A Category 4 hurricane will blow out most windows on high-rise buildings, uproot most trees and will likely down many power lines. Fortunately, as a storm hits land, it does begin to quiet, but not soon enough to prevent damage.
It is when they hit the ground that they cause the most destruction, killing many lives and destroying coastal areas. See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. These are seven tropical cyclone basins where storms most often happen on a regular basimages of the seven tropical cyclone basins where storms occur on a regular basis.
As stated earlier, a tropical cyclone goes by three different names. If it is heading towards the United States or the Caribbean, it is a hurricane. If it is heading towards Asia, it is a typhoon. Everywhere else is called a cyclone. Of these areas, tropical cyclones are by far the most common in the western Pacific Ocean. So much so, that the Philippines may get struck by up to 20 tropical storms or more a year. In the Eastern and Western Pacific hurricanes, both peak late August and early September, although in the Eastern, they begin in the middle of May, while the Western Pacific hurricanes do not usually start until July.
In both areas, hurricanes typically subside by the end of November. The South Pacific, on the other hand, peak in late February and early March, although the season begins mid-October and goes until mid-May. The Atlantic Ocean gets far less a year, averaging anywhere between 5 and 6 hurricanes. Their peak time of year to get a tropical cyclone is August to late October, although they may occur anywhere between June 1st and November 30th. In the South Atlantic area, they are so rare, only one has occurred.
It was Hurricane "Catarina" in The Indian Ocean also has hurricanes. In the northern area, they tend to occur between April and the end of December, while in the southern region, they occur from mid-October until the end of May.
Phil Eastman and Lt. Dave Deme. Our best defense against hurricanes is accurate forecasting. No building could withstand a category five hurricane. The only help is for the people to get out of their way.
The Hurricane Center in given areas issues watches and warnings for storms that will hit land in the 24 hours. They can let people know where it is headed and how severe the wind is. The National Hurricane Center, located in Miami, Florida, notify those that are affected by hurricanes in the North Atlantic area, which includes the area from the equator to the Arctic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, as well as eastern Pacific.
These centers get their information from satellites that set 22, miles above the Earth. They have several functions, including:. Satellites are not the only instruments NASA uses to measure a hurricane. They also use airplanes that are operated without people inside and fly them overtop the storms.
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Thank-you so much. Living in South Florida hurricanes are a concern each year. As the wind passes over the ocean's surface, water evaporates turns into water vapor and rises. As it rises, the water vapor cools, and condenses back into large water droplets, forming large cumulonimbus clouds.
These clouds are just the beginning. Credit: NOAA. Meteorologists have divided the development of a tropical cyclone into four stages: Tropical disturbance, tropical depression, tropical storm, and full-fledged tropical cyclone. When the water vapor from the warm ocean condenses to form clouds, it releases its heat to the air. The warmed air rises and is pulled into the column of clouds.
Evaporation and condensation continue, building the cloud columns higher and larger. A pattern develops, with the wind circulating around a center like water going down a drain. As the moving column of air encounters more clouds, it becomes a cluster of thunderstorm clouds, called a tropical disturbance.
As the thunderstorm grows higher and larger, the air at the top of the cloud column is cooling and becoming unstable. As the heat energy is released from the cooling water vapor, the air at the top of the clouds becomes warmer, making the air pressure higher and causing winds to move outward away from the high pressure area. This movement and warming causes pressures at the surface to drop.
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