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A flight instrutor grabbed Lieutenant Ralph O'Hair and flew the two-seated aircraft into the eye of the storm. The two were flying till they hit a storm. The U.S. Weather Bureau and the U.S. Air Force. Two U.S. government agencies scout hurricanes. Between altitudes of 1,000 and 10,000 feet, Hurricane Hunters fly through three parts of a hurricane. Although hurricane season usually finishes around November 30th, the end of the season does not signal a vacation for the Hunters; they fly winter months. One siginificant weather system starts as a warm, low pressure center off Florida's coast. The system gathers moisture as it moves up the easthern seaboard. In winter, the low pressure system can meet a frigid, dry Arctic air

The first hurricane ever recorded was in 1494. Ever since then, hurricanes have been a major destruction to our modern world. The only appropriate term to be used to describe hurricanes is demolishing. Hurricanes ruin everything they touch. They separate families, break down buildings, flood towns, and even cause deaths.

What are some of the methods used to study weather patterns? Do you think the data collected can help to predict future climatic conditions?

Natural disasters occurring from the climate change could be on the rise. Global warming has been rumored to be causing more hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, heavier monsoonal rains that cause major flooding, mud slides, and other disasters worldwide. A tropical cyclone, also referred to as hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones, depending on where in the world the cyclone is occurring, are one of the world’s grandest shows of energy provided by nature. Hurricanes are large, swirling, low pressure storms that have sustained winds of over 74 miles an hour and are formed over warm ocean waters (NASA, n.d.). The purpose of this paper is to discuss hurricanes

A hurricane is an advanced tropical storm with winds of 74 miles per hour or more and can cause massive damage to people, wildlife, and structures. The Galveston hurricane and storm surge on a Friday evening in Galveston Texas on September 7, 1900. Many residents were eating dinner unaware of a disastrous hurricane headed toward them. The people were not sure just how powerful the hurricane actually was because they did not have the modern technology that we have today. Their way of determining hurricane statistics was to simply go out on boats and report back information.

Claim: Galileo was not really a heretic because he may have been trying to expand and interpretation of the Bible, and he most likely did not directly ever say that the Bible was wrong.

At the turn of the century, technology was hitting a booming time. Electricity, railroads, and telegraphs were still somewhat new in world. With all of this new technology man has still yet to master any of it; weather forecast included. At the turn of the century, the weather forecast in the United States was operated by a branch of the government known as the Weather Bureau. It was their job to predict the weather, including hurricanes, so that the navy can bypass the storms. To maintain funding, they Bureau would refrain from making predictions of hurricanes unless granted permission from

Another tool that has recently been in use to monitor hurricanes is the NASA Global Hawk, which is an experimental unmanned aircraft that is used to test possible operational capabilities within a hurricane. Likewise, once a hurricane is projected to become a threat to land, the hurricane is immediately monitored by the U.S. Air Force, and NOAA hurricane aircraft, and land stations.

The NOAA’s long term plan is to engage in six major areas. The first being continue in conduct experiments for understanding the natural process of weather. Second is to build models to predict the effects and outcomes that may affect the world. Third and Fourth are coherent being use new observing technology for data to feed the models, and develop new forecasting tools for improving weather services. To share information to public, federal, and academic partners, and to prepare scientific assessments to enhance the public's knowledge and to inform if any governmental actions need to happen.(Goldman)

Ships, satellites, and land-bound weather stations were used, so any hurricane over a body of water where ships didn't travel was not likely to be recorded. This means that before 1914, a lot of hurricanes in the Atlantic were not recorded, as ships were not likely to travel far from Europe. Additionally, modern data catches a ton of small, quick storms which were unlikely to be caught by old satellites or result in a ship caught up in the ocean. Also, the Hurricane Center estimates that during the early times of recording, 0-5 hurricanes were not recorded every year. When factoring all of this in, there isn't much difference in modern day hurricane activity levels and those of the

Most forecasters thought that the hurricane of 1938 would go out to sea and die out. One forecaster thought it would go into NE and that's just what happened. No one listened to him. No one had time to flee because no one warned them.

The Great Hurricane of 1938, or known to many as the Long Island Express, was known as one of the most disastrous hurricanes to hit New England. It wasn’t the high winds, heavy rain, and high waves/storm surge that gave this hurricane its title in history. The Great Hurricane had a fourth deadly weapon; the element of surprise. It was the beginning of September, a time where many packed up their summer clothes, boarded up their houses, and left to return back to the real world leaving their summer homes behind. When symptoms of a storm approached New England, many locals convinced themselves and others that it was just the normal “line storm” which occasionally comes in September. It wasn’t until Sept 21 that people realized the so-called

THESIS STATEMENT: One of nature’s most powerful and destructive storms are hurricanes. Although they can be deadly to humans and animals and have been known to cause extensive destruction, they also play a very important and beneficial role on Earth.

The first standardized hurricane naming system occurred in the nineteenth century, in the early days of hurricane tracking. Storms were identified based on their geographical locations using the latitudinal and longitudinal information. However, this system was confusing when there was more than one storm in the same ocean basin (WMO, 2014). Clement Wragge, a controversial Australian meteorologist, was the first to give a women’s name to tropical storms at the end of the 19th century (NHC, 2014). This colorful meteorologist at the head of the Australian weather office first named the storms after characters from the Greek mythology, but was later inspired by politicians he did not like (Norcross 2007). It is often thought that the inspiration

Although gas flaring has been a fundamental activity in the oil and gas industry since the discovery of oil, the exact magnitude of the problem both globally and regionally has been uncertain, reported data from governments and independent oil companies had its errors and limitations. In 2001, Elvidge et al. proposed that the Defence Meteorological satellite program (DMSP) Operational Linescan system’s (OLS) Night-time lights of the world data could be used identify burning flares and an algorithm developed from reported flare data and sum light index could be used to quantify flared gas volumes globally. In 2007, Elvidge et al. working with the National Oceanic and