Category: World Weather
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What Is A Hurricane Local Statement And What Does It Mean?
During a hurricane, the local National Weather Service will release a statement that details key information about the hurricane.
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Weather Fronts
A cold weather front is defined as the changeover region where a cold air mass is replacing a warmer air mass. Cold weather fronts usually move from northwest to southeast. The air behind a cold front is colder and drier than the air in front. When a cold front passes through, temperatures can drop more…
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Weather Facts
Hot and Cold weather facts:Al’Aziziyah in Libya has the highest recorded temperature on earth at a sweltering 58°C on the 13th Sept, 1922. The lowest ever recorded world temperature was at Vostok Station, Antarctica on the 21 July 1983 at a bitter -89.6°C Wet and Dry facts about weather:Mawsynram in India is noted as being…
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Tornadoes
Tornadoes are the most violent storms on Earth; violently rotating columns of air exceed 100 mph and can reach up to 300 mph. An average of 1,000 tornadoes spin up beneath thunderstorms each year, and these typically kill about 60 people in the United States. Although tornadoes can occur at any time of the year,…
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Lightning
LightningLightning strikes the surface of our planet about 100 times every second. Each flash of lightning contains over one billion volts – enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb continually for three months. A lightning flash can happen in half a second. In that instant, the lightning flash superheats the surrounding air to a temperature…
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Hurricanes
Hurricanes and their counterparts in other places (typhoons near Japan and cyclones off India and Australia), are moderately large low-pressure systems that form most often during the warmer months of the year. Hurricanes mainly occur near the Equator, in regions with prevailing easterly winds. These systems develop winds between 75 and 150 miles an hour…
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What Is A Gale Warning?
The weather can be crazy at times. In many areas of the United States, the weather can get incredibly unpredictable and even dangerous. This is why it is so critical to ensure you are always prepared and keeping up to date with the news and weather reports. On these reports, you may hear something like…
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Gale Force Winds: What Are They And How Are They Formed?
If we were to talk about the strongest forces on the earth currently, some people might say nuclear power or fossil fuels, but in terms of the strongest natural forces, not much beats the weather. Weather is one of the most powerful forces on this planet, and one of the most powerful weather systems is…
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Factors that Influence Weather
There are many factor that influence weather, many of which we cannot see. The Water CycleAs the sun warms the surface of the Earth, water rises in the form of water vapor from lakes, rivers, oceans, plants, the ground, and other sources. This process is called evaporation. Water vapor provides the moisture that forms clouds;…
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Cloud Types
Clouds are the visible collections of water droplets or ice particles in the atmosphere. Meteorologists classify cloud types according to shape and altitude. Fog is a ground-level cloud. Stratus clouds, which are flat or layered, are much longer and wider than they are tall. Altostratus is a stratus cloud about 2 miles above the Earth.…