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...

With "Ode to the West Wind," Percy Bysshe Shelley presents a poetic prayer filled with musical metaphors and themes of death, rebirth, inspiration, and liberation. The poem possesses dynamic language to convey the formidable forces of the West Wind, autumnal energy "whose unseen presence the leav...

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...

A tornado is a violent windstorm that takes the form of a rotating column of air that extends down from a wall cloud during a thunderstorm (Lutgens and Tarbuck). The pressure within the funnel is much less then the air around causing air from the ground to rush into the tornado from all directions. ...

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 ...