Hurricane Katrina: Why Some People Stayed Behind
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- Hurricane Katrina: Why Some People Stayed Behind
- New cyclone predictor
- Hurricane Hunters prep for upcoming storm season
- La Jolla diver recounts ‘underwater tornado’
Hurricane Katrina: Why Some People Stayed Behind
Science Daily (press release)
history claiming the lives of more than 1800 victims and causing well over $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast. The 2005 storm breached every levee in New rleans flooding almost the entire city as well as the neighboring parishes. Yet a surprising number of people stayed behind and rode out the storm.
New cyclone predictor
Science News
During El Niño episodes the number of tropical storms and hurricanes ? both called cyclones ? is lower than average across the North Atlantic says Peter J. Webster an atmospheric scientist at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. But when the equatorial sea-surface warming is concentrated only around the international date line hurricane activity is much higher than normal Webster and his colleagues report in the July 3 Science. ?This is a pattern that we [scientists] hadn?t really recognized before? comments Chris Landsea an atmospheric scientist at NAA?s hurricane research division in Miami. He says the finding is ?an advance in the field. ?Webster and his colleagues analyzed patterns in North Atlantic cyclone activity from 1950 through 2006 during August September and ctober the height of hurricane season. As many previous studies had noted the number and strength of tropical cyclones were markedly lower in El Niño years than during La Niña episodes when sea-surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific are substantially cooler than normal.
Hurricane Hunters prep for upcoming storm season
Air Force Link
and are the only Department of Defense unit flying into tropical storms and hurricanes collecting critical data. During the next months until Nov. 30 the Hurricane Hunters will be honing their skills in special WC-130J Hercules aircraft ready to fly when called upon by people in the liaison office at the National ceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Hurricane Center in Miami. The Airmen are the only ones in the Air Force authorized to fly in thunderstorms “We can be deployed within 16 hours after the call (from the NAA liaison office)” said Lt. Louis Patriquin the 403rd perations Group commander. Their mission is to collect storm data and send to the hurricane center for forecasters to plug into computer models for better forecasting predictions.
La Jolla diver recounts ‘underwater tornado’
Del Mar Times
“Neptune had an attitude this morning” said Virginia Hatter one of the six divers who were doing underwater photography along a canyon wall when they were gripped by a phenomenon they’ll never forget. “It was a beautiful descent crystal clear gorgeous” she said. “Then about 20 minutes into it the current pushed me into one of the other divers. I looked up and saw something I’d never seen before: It looked like an underwater tornado with sand and water swirling and coming toward us.
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