Hurricanes: A General Understanding Hurricanes are tropical cyclones that have winds higher than 64 knots of power. They circulate different ways in each of the two atmospheres. In the Northern Hemisphere they circulate counter clockwise, and in the Southern Hemisphere, they circulate clockwise...

When a natural disaster occurs, time can be our greatest ally in order to preempt the damage it might cause. The process of predicting an upcoming disaster has been ongoing for hundreds of years. However, only recently have we been able to step away from the shadow of oracle bones and fortunetellers...

STORMS HURRICANES AND THE HELP OF THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA) RESEARCH DIVSION My original viewing of the movie A Perfect Storm was for the dramatic entertainment, all the information about the storm was of little or no interest. Now that my knowledge of the worl...

El Nino has been a reoccurring phenomenon for centuries. Man has only started to realize how much of the worlds weather is effected by it. The term El Nino refers to an irregular warming of the seas surface. During the last 40 years there have been 10 significant El Nino occurrences. Most affecting ...

3. A Desert plants have evolved ways of conserving and efficiently using the water available to them. Some flowering desert plants are ephemeral; they live for a few days at most. Their seeds lie dormant in the soil, sometimes for years, until a soaking rain enables them to germinate and ...