2. By: Zakaria Algahaim Mrs.Gohl 8B 3/12/2015

3.  Eye: The calm center of a hurricane.  Eye wall: The storm clouds near the eye that produce a hurricane’s strongest winds and heaviest rains.  Levees: Natural or man-made walls that prevent rivers and lakes from flooding the land.  Storm Surge: Wind-driven wall of seawater.  Tropical Storm: A storm system with whirling winds of at least 39 but less than 74 miles per hour.

4.  Whirlwind: A rotating windstorm.

5.  When the storm made landfall, it had a category 3 rating on the Saffir.  Hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were displaced from their homes.  Experts estimate that Katrina caused more than $100 billion in damage.

6.  Hurricanes have led to killing 2 million people over the past 200 years.  In 1970, a cyclone Bangladesh and killed over 300,000 people.  New Orleans was flooded with 80% of water covering it.

7.  It is fed by the oceans heat and water evaporating from the surface.  Air swirls in to take its place.  When warmed moist air rises and cools off, it makes clouds.

8.  Hurricanes are classified into one to five categorized based on wind speed.  There is a scale that rates hurricanes called Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.  This scale was made by Herb Saffir and Robert Simpson.

9.  Kublai Khan sent an enormous fleet of Chinese and Korean to attack Japan.  Yet twice in 1274 and 1281, his fleet were destroyed by Kamikaze.  Kublai Khan’s fleet was one of the largest the world has ever seen, with more than 140,000 sailors.

10.  Be sure to secure your storage shed and put it below ground.  You should secure trash cans with cables or chains stuck in the ground.  You should also secure wood, metal, and other hard materials.

11.  They flown across U.S. and around the world.  Their airborne platforms are used to the gathering of environmental and geographic data for scientific research.  They learn about hurricanes by going inside them eyes of hurricanes.

12.  3,000 ships sunk, 700 people killed, 9,00 homes destroyed.  This caused widespread blackouts.  This also caused innumerable trees were felled, and 12 new inlets were created on Long Island.

13.  The World Meteorological Organization develops a list of names the are listed in alphabetical order.  They usually put tropical storms as that are discovered in each hurricane season.  Names can be repeated after an interval of six years, but the names of especially severe storms are permanently retired from use.

14.  Hurricane warnings indicate that hurricane conditions(sustained winds of 74 mph or higher) are expected somewhere within the specified area.  A hurricane watch means that hurricanes conditions(sustained winds of 74 mph or higher) are possible within the specified area.  The both warn you so you can get prepared.

15.  The ocean waters must be warm enough at the surface to put enough heat and moisture into the atmosphere.  The overlying atmosphere to provide the potential fuel for the thermodynamic engine that a hurricane becomes.  The atmospheric moisture from the sea water evaporation must combine with the heat and energy to form the powerful engine needed to propel a hurricane.

16.  When vertical wind shear exists, the hurricane’s rotational wind field may tilt with height.  In the tropics, where hurricanes form, easterly winds called the trade winds steer a hurricane towards the west.  In addition to the steering flow by the environmental wind, a hurricane drifts in the northern hemisphere due to process called beta drift, which arises because the strength of the Coriolis force increases with latitude for a given wind speed.

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23. By: Zakaria Algahaim