After tornado orders them in mobile homes
The News Review:
- After tornado orders them in mobile homes
- What’s in Store for the 2007 Hurricane Season?
- Lightning in Ethiopia is the real hurricane trigger
- Hurricane drill offers lessons on readiness
- … praised: Florida’s congressional delegation offered…
- Federal Water Scientists Prepare to Weather the Big Storms
- Hurricane risks higher than usual for most of US coasts
After tornado orders them in mobile homes
USA Today – May 25, 2007
hopes weather radios save livesAfter tornado orders them in mobile homesBy Theodore Kim and Rebecca NealUSA TDAY INDIANAPLIS A first-of-its-kind law requiring mobile homes to come equipped with emergency weather radios will take effect next month in Indiana. The law is one of several initiatives among tornado-stricken states to bolster weather warnings. The statute which applies to mobile homes installed at mobile home parks after June 30 is a response to a tornado that killed 25 people in southwestern Indiana in November 2005. Twenty of the victims lived in the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park in Evansville. The tornado struck in the middle of the night. Weather radios could have given residents enough time to seek shelter National Weather Service spokesman Rick Shanklin said at the time… The statute which applies to mobile homes installed at mobile home parks after June 30 is a response to a tornado that killed 25 people in southwestern Indiana in November 2005. Twenty of the victims lived in the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park in Evansville. The tornado struck in the middle of the night. Weather radios could have given residents enough time to seek shelter National Weather Service spokesman Rick Shanklin said at the time. Phil Hoy of Evansville agreed and sponsored the measure. “This is a beginning point but it’s a good beginning” Hoy said.
What’s in Store for the 2007 Hurricane Season?
NPR – May 25, 2007
But they warn that this year may see La Nina developing bringing with it a bigger chance of more hurricanes. Experts weigh in with predictions for the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season.
Lightning in Ethiopia is the real hurricane trigger
Times nline – May 25, 2007
This disturbed atmosphere creates blocks of low pressure and about half of these go on to spawn storms off the West African coast before they head out across the Atlantic. Whether these depressions develop into hurricanes depends on many other factors such as a warm sea calm winds higher up in the atmosphere and a lack of dust blown off the Sahara. Despite the vast distances between Ethiopia and the hurricane belt of the US and Caribbean the link between the thunderstorms and hurricanes is remarkably strong. In the past two years about 85 per cent of intense hurricanes including Hurricane Katrina can be traced back to big thunderstorms in eastern Africa.
Hurricane drill offers lessons on readiness
Providence Journal – May 25, 2007
Instead of 130000 people in harm’s way Rhode Island could have upward of 400000 people evacuating from regions hit by a massive hurricane. Rhode Island doesn’t have enough shelters to hold them all nor does it have enough volunteers. Main roads and bridges would be wiped out making it tricky for officials to figure out how to get resources to those stranded in places such as Aquidneck Island. These were some of the issues state officials said they found during the federal hurricane exercise run earlier this month… Main roads and bridges would be wiped out making it tricky for officials to figure out how to get resources to those stranded in places such as Aquidneck Island. These were some of the issues state officials said they found during the federal hurricane exercise run earlier this month. “Hurricane Yvette” followed the track of the 1938 hurricane during a drill run jointly by the U. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense one of several large-scale national exercises under peration Ardent Sentry-Northern Edge 2007. The exercises were meant to test how well-prepared the federal government the military and the states are at working together to handle a major disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina. Rhode Island volunteered to host the Northeast exercise which involved the New England states and New York.
… praised: Florida’s congressional delegation offered…
Free with registration – Miami Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 25, 2007
utspoken director praised: Florida’s congressional delegation offered kudos to the hurricane center director who has spoken his mind about funding difficulties. (25-MAY-07) Miami Herald (Miami FL).
Federal Water Scientists Prepare to Weather the Big Storms
Environment News Service – May 25, 2007
The damage resulted in interruptions of streamflow and water-level data needed during the storm by forecasters emergency managers and dam and levee operators. With another very active hurricane season forecast this year four major actions are underway to prepare for monitoring storm flooding Hirsch explained. The USGS will strengthen streamgages along the Gulf Coast; place rapidly deployable mobile gages on streams; develop capabilities to measure hurricane-driven storm surges; and install an emergency satellite communications and data distribution system. The USGS has a nationwide network of more than 7400 stream gages but it does not cover every stream in the country… The damage resulted in interruptions of streamflow and water-level data needed during the storm by forecasters emergency managers and dam and levee operators. With another very active hurricane season forecast this year four major actions are underway to prepare for monitoring storm flooding Hirsch explained. The USGS will strengthen streamgages along the Gulf Coast; place rapidly deployable mobile gages on streams; develop capabilities to measure hurricane-driven storm surges; and install an emergency satellite communications and data distribution system. The USGS has a nationwide network of more than 7400 stream gages but it does not cover every stream in the country. The USGS is currently strengthening or “hardening” 120 gages along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas.
Hurricane risks higher than usual for most of US coasts
innovations report – May 25, 2007
Johnson and Watson based their analysis on statistical models that incorporate the paths of storms from the past 155 years along with models using the actual climate conditions for January through May 2007 that compute the expected global climate conditions for the rest of the year. The researchers have worked together for 10 years on probability analyses for hurricanes and have released their projections for the past eight years. Johnson is an expert in the statistical aspects of hurricane modeling and forecasting. Watson specializes in developing hazard models based on engineering and geophysics. org that tracks storms worldwide with hourly updates shows estimates of disruptions to oil and gas production and projects property damage along the storms’ anticipated paths… f the 852 counties included in the analysis the probability of hurricane-force winds (74 mph or greater) this year is 15 percent or greater in 61 counties. In an average year only six counties face probabilities of at least 15 percent. The 20 counties with the highest probabilities for hurricane-force winds include 10 in Florida eight in North Carolina one in Louisiana and one in South Carolina. To develop estimates for oil-and-gas production the researchers operate a computer model that includes every oil platform pipeline refinery and terminal in the Gulf of Mexico. The model simulated how every storm since 1851 would have affected oil and gas infrastructure based on 2007 locations. In those simulations at least one week’s worth of production in the Gulf has been disrupted in 98 percent of the years with La Ni?onditions. Johnson and Watson have developed maps to support local mitigation strategies for the State of Florida developed data for Caribbean governments in an effort funded by the rganization of American States and researched hurricane damage models used in the insurance industry.