This document discusses different types of weather disturbances such as typhoons/hurricanes, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and tsunamis. It provides details on the formation, characteristics, impacts and examples of events for each disturbance type. The key points are that typhoons and hurricanes are tropical storms that form over warm ocean waters and have strong winds, tornadoes are rotating columns of air that form from thunderstorms, and tsunamis are large ocean waves caused by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or landslides that can devastate coastal areas with powerful waves and flooding when they reach land.
This document discusses different types of weather disturbances such as typhoons/hurricanes, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and tsunamis. It provides details on the formation, characteristics, impacts and examples of events for each disturbance type. The key points are that typhoons and hurricanes are tropical storms that form over warm ocean waters and have strong winds, tornadoes are rotating columns of air that form from thunderstorms, and tsunamis are large ocean waves caused by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or landslides that can devastate coastal areas with powerful waves and flooding when they reach land.
This document discusses different types of weather disturbances such as typhoons/hurricanes, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and tsunamis. It provides details on the formation, characteristics, impacts and examples of events for each disturbance type. The key points are that typhoons and hurricanes are tropical storms that form over warm ocean waters and have strong winds, tornadoes are rotating columns of air that form from thunderstorms, and tsunamis are large ocean waves caused by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or landslides that can devastate coastal areas with powerful waves and flooding when they reach land.
This document discusses different types of weather disturbances such as typhoons/hurricanes, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and tsunamis. It provides details on the formation, characteristics, impacts and examples of events for each disturbance type. The key points are that typhoons and hurricanes are tropical storms that form over warm ocean waters and have strong winds, tornadoes are rotating columns of air that form from thunderstorms, and tsunamis are large ocean waves caused by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or landslides that can devastate coastal areas with powerful waves and flooding when they reach land.
where great amounts of heat are being produced from the process of latent heat of condensation.
Both are names of tropical storms and most of their characteristics are the same. They have
wind speeds that are more than 74 mph,
and are accompanied by hail, strong winds, storm surges and rain.
Hurricane comes from the word which means big wind. It was originally a term used by the Native Americans for storms that originated in the West Atlantic.
Typhoon is derived from the Chinese Tai Fun which means and referred to winds that developed in the North Pacific.
Hurricanes
damage more land areas than Typhoons, which cause damage to countries coastlines. Hurricanes move both clockwise and counter clockwise.
Typhoons
are said to be stronger than Hurricanes because it develops where water is warm. Typhoons move clockwise.
Pre-existing
disturbance Warm ocean water Low atmospheric stability Sufficient Coriolis force Low vertical wind shear Upper atmosphere divergence
- a storm system characterized by a lowpressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain.
Water
temperatures of at least 26.5
C (79.7 F) Rapid cooling with height High humidity Low amounts of wind shear A need to form more than 555 km (345 mi) or 5 degrees of latitude away from the equator pre-existing system of disturbed weather
Around
19 tropical
cyclones
or
storms The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) releases tropical cyclone warnings in the form of Public Storm Warning Signals.
Torrential rain that can cause
flooding - Extremely strong winds that carry debris that can be lethal - Damage buildings and property - Destroy crops - Capsize boats at sea - Deaths due to drowning - Infrastructure destroyed -
- rotating columns
of air usually produced by severe thunderstorms.
mini tornadoes
circulating around a larger one.
- tornadoes form
over water.
- tornadoes form over land.
most tornadoes actually form from the ground up. It is simply highly saturated air dropping from the thunderstorm which gives the appearance of a tornado
- a tornado on
average moves at speeds of 30mph, but can range stationary to about 70mph.
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Land
encourages the development of a tornado, while it destroys the cyclones formation. The time frame from the birth of a tornado until it dies out, is generally measured in minutes.
Cyclones
develop and faster over the oceans. The cyclone has a longer life span. The time frame from the birth to the death of a cyclone, is measured in hours and days.
loss of Life Property Damage Effects on Nature
Tsunami
are ocean waves, that can reach the height of 100 feet, and crash onto land. Japanese word that means harbor wave. 80% of all tsunamis take place in the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean.
Tsunamis
are formed as a result of powerful under water earthquakes, volcanic eruption, or a landslide Some parts of the Ocean experience frequent earthquakes because of the movement of the continental plates.
In
deep open sea,
tsunamis move at a speed of 600 mph or more. When tsunami arrives at the shore, it usually decreases its speed to about 45 mph/hour.
August 16, 1976
Cotabato Trench Maximum height of 4.5 meters (14-15 feet)
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Tsunami
may affect people mentally, emotionally, and financially. People are left homeless and careless due to the flooding and other destructions. Lost of lives
Destroy A
the crops and flood the city.
tsunami can cause plenty of damage by crushing buildings, sweeping people of their feet, and dirtying the pipes, consequently spreading disease.
