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Extreme Weather Notes

The document discusses various severe weather phenomena including blizzards, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Blizzards are characterized by strong winds and heavy snow, particularly common in high and mid-latitudes, while hurricanes form over warm ocean waters and can cause significant coastal damage. Tornadoes, which occur primarily in the central U.S. during spring and summer, are known for their destructive power, particularly from flying debris.

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Extreme Weather Notes

The document discusses various severe weather phenomena including blizzards, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Blizzards are characterized by strong winds and heavy snow, particularly common in high and mid-latitudes, while hurricanes form over warm ocean waters and can cause significant coastal damage. Tornadoes, which occur primarily in the central U.S. during spring and summer, are known for their destructive power, particularly from flying debris.

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“Crazy awesome” weather stuff

Blizzards
Winds pull cold air toward the equator from the poles and bring warmer, moist air toward
the poles from the equator. When warm air and cold air are brought together, a front is
formed and snow can form. Warm air can also rise to form clouds and blizzard snows as it
flows up a mountainside.In high and mid-latitudes, blizzards are some of the most
widespread and hazardous of weather events. They are most common in Russia and central
and northeastern Asia, northern Europe, Canada, the northern United States, and Antarctica.
Blizzards bring about strong winds in the cold weather. These winds could blow up houses,
damage property and cause power lines to collapse causing people to go without power
and warmth. Communication systems could also go down or be interfered with, disrupting
emergency communication.

Hurricanes
Warm ocean waters and thunderstorms fuel power-hungry hurricanes. Hurricanes form over
the ocean, often beginning as a tropical wave—a low pressure area that moves through the
moisture-rich tropics, possibly enhancing shower and thunderstorm activity. Tropical
storms and hurricanes most frequently occur off the Southeast and mid-Atlantic coasts, but
they can also roam the Atlantic Basin anywhere between the northern Bahamas and Atlantic
Canada, in the Gulf of Mexico, the eastern Caribbean Sea and the western tropical Atlantic
(to the east of the Lesser Antilles). he destructive power of storm surge and large battering
waves can result in loss of life, buildings destroyed, beach and dune erosion and road and
bridge damage along the coast. Storm surge can travel several miles inland. In estuaries
and bayous, salt water intrusion endangers public health and the environment.

Tornadoes
Tornado season comes early in the south and later in the north because spring comes later
in the year as one moves northward. All tornadoes produce damage, but the most violent
ones can cause automobiles to become airborne, rip homes to shreds, and turn broken
glass and other debris into lethal missiles. The biggest tornado threat to human beings is
from flying debris in the wind. Inside thunderclouds, warm, humid air rises, while cool air
falls--along with rain or hail. These conditions can cause spinning air currents inside the
cloud. Although the spinning currents start out horizontal, they can turn vertical and drop
down from the cloud--becoming a tornado. In the U.S. they are most common in the central
plains of North America, east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Appalachian
Mountains. They occur mostly during the spring and summer.
The winter of 1880–1881 is widely considered the most severe winter ever known in many parts
of the United States. The initial blizzard in October of 1880 brought snowfalls so deep that
two-story homes experienced accumulations, as opposed to drifts, up to their second floor
windows.Blizzards can have an immense size and usually stretch to hundreds or thousands of
kilometres.

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