What is Storm Chasing? Storm chasing is a term that is defined as someone who is chasing storms or different weather conditions with some motive. It can also be done out of curiosity, for adventure or for some kind of scientific investigation. The person who does storm chasing is known as the storm chaser. However, there is a Read More
Hurricanes. How powerful are they? How does a hurricane work? What do you do in a Hurricane and after? Tropical places are hot and sunny in the summer. The skies darken and storms sweep in from the sea, bringing fierce winds and lashing rain in the fall. Depending on where you live, these storms are called Tropical storm, tropical cyclones, typhoons or hurricanes.
What are Floods? Floods are a lot of water. Floods occur when a piece of land that is usually dry suddenly gets covered with water. Water naturally flows from higher ground to low ground. The low ground will fill up before the high ground. That is why you see on TV people on their roofs Read More
A very bad natural disaster is a drought. A drought is when there is a lack of precipitation (i.e. rain, snow, hail, sleet) over an extended period of time. The length of time is usually a season or more with the result being a water shortage for plants, people or animals.
A Typhoon is an intense cyclone that forms in the western part of the North Pacific Ocean between 180° and 100°E Longitude. The North Pacific Ocean is known as the Northwestern Pacific Basin which is the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth. A typhoon is only different from a cyclone and hurricane based on Read More