Tag: Weather and Climate

What Is Drought?

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.

All You Need to Know About Tropical Cyclone

Tropical Cyclone What is it? In simple words, a tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system that produces heavy rain with strong wind and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms. Usually, these are formed over warm ocean waters at low latitudes. A cyclone is referred to by many different names depending on its location and Read More

The Lovely, Colorful Rainbow

Rainbow, R.O.Y.G.B.I.V. Why it happens The rainbow, which in Latin is arcus pluvius, means “rainy arch” and is a meteorological phenomenon caused by reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light in water droplets in the atmosphere which results in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It was believed that the earliest occurrence of the Read More

The Intense Typhoon. No Friend of Mine.

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