A community portal about Tropical cyclones with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A tropical cyclone is a storm system fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor in it condenses. The term...
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A community portal about Tropical cyclones with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A tropical cyclone is a storm system fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor in it condenses. The term describes the storm's origin in the tropics and its cyclonic nature, which means that its circulation is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Tropical cyclones are distinguished from other cyclonic windstorms such as nor'easters, European windstorms, and polar lows by the heat mechanism that fuels them, which makes them "warm core" storm systems. Depending on their location and strength, there are various terms by which tropical cyclones are known, such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, and tropical depression.
Thousands of Fiji villagers fled to shelters as a tropical cyclone battered the South Pacific nation, causing flooding, damaging homes and power lines, and killing three people, officials said Tuesday. Cyclone Mick, Fiji's first this summer season, ripped through the most populated island of Viti Levu on Monday night and is headed toward Tonga, which has been placed on alert. Fiji's National Disaster Management Office said the death and injury toll was reduced by people heeding the cyclone... Read Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center was monitoring Tropical Storm Erika in the northeastern Caribbean Sea and a tropical wave in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean early Friday, but both systems had low chances of further development into tropical cyclones in the next 48 hours. The NHC said it had issued its last advisory on Erika, but the system would be closely monitored for signs of regeneration. There was a low chance - less than 30 percent - of it becoming a tropical... Read Full Story
Bangladesh launched a major rescue and relief operation after a cyclone slammed into the coast killing at least 15 people and 10 in neighbouring India, officials said. Most of the casualties in Bangladesh were reported to be children who had drowned as Cyclone Aila triggered a tidal surge of four metres (13 feet) when it made landfall on Monday. Some 330,000 people were marooned and military and civil defence teams were helping to deliver food, water and emergency shelters, the government in... Read Full Story
AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR) announced the availability of the AIR tropical cyclone model for Mexico. The new probabilistic model will reportedly help the industry better manage hurricane and tropical cyclone risk in the growing Latin American insurance market. The unique feature of the AIR tropical cyclone model for Mexico is that it estimates insured losses from wind and flood to buildings, contents, and business interruption. On average, Mexico experiences almost two hurricane... Read Full Story
Today started out like any other day. No wait. Mumbai isn't issued cyclone warnings everyday. Neither do I have a cold everyday!
Anyway, just before I left for French classes, I decided that I wanted to bunk college. I get that urge pretty often. But today I had a valid excuse. I had a cold. And it's raining. And Mumbai has been issued a cyclone warning by MET.
So I went to my classes & came back home. Mom went for her volunteer work. Later I read a Tweet from author Ashok Banker's... Read Full Story
The function of a hurricane is to dissipate heat and keep the earth’s temperature within norms. Florida State Univ. has the latest data on global and northern hemisphere tropical cyclones and the date shows
northern hemisphere tropical cyclone activity is the lowest in 30 years.
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Wouldn’t you think with all the man-made gasses being ejected into the atmosphere we’d have global warming and we’d see an increase instead of a decrease. In fact the decline started... Read Full Story
x Global warming is likely to boost the power of the strongest tropical cyclones, a study released Wednesday says. An additional one degree Celsius in sea temperatures in tropical regions where cyclones breed could lead to a nearly one-third rise in the number of the most powerful storms, it says. "As the seas warm, the ocean has more energy to convert to tropical cyclone wind," say authors of the paper, released by London weekly Nature. Previous research, based on observations over the... Read Full Story
EUROPA NEWSWIRE. TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 AM EDT WED AUG 19 2009 FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO... THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON HURRICANE BILL...LOCATED ABOUT 460 MILES EAST OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS. 1. CLOUDINESS AND SHOWERS OVER THE NORTHWESTERN BAHAMAS...SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION ANA ARE GRADUALLY DIMINISHING... Read Full Story
The Met department has issued a cyclone alert for Mumbai and adjoining areas. Many flights to and from Mumbai have been delayed. Heavy to very heavy rains have been forecast around Gujarat and the Konkan coast. Mumbai, Mangalore and Surat are the major cities on the cyclone path.
This cyclone, called PHYAN, is pegged at level [...] Read Full Story
HURRICANE: a tropical cyclone with winds of 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour or greater that occurs especially in the western Atlantic, that is usually accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning, and that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
CYCLONE: a storm or system of winds that rotates about a center of low atmospheric pressure, advances at a speed of 20 to 30 miles (about 30 to 50 kilometers) an hour, and often brings heavy rain
TYPHOON: a hurricane occurring especially in... Read Full Story
