Professional storm photographer Mike Theiss documents Hurricane Katrina's record-setting storm surge from the emergency door of a beachfront hotel stairwell in Gulfport, Miss., on Aug. 29, 2005. See morestorm pictures. Jim Reed/Science Factions/Getty Images ...
Storm surge is represented as the sum of two sinusoidal components, and a third constituent represents the semidiurnal tide (D2). An empirical fit of storm surge shows that two sinusoidal components adequately represent storm surge above a baseline value (R2 = 0.97). We find that ...
Oftentimes, all you need to do is evacuate far enough so you can escape storm surge. If you have room in the car, bring your disaster supply kit (we'll talk about that in a minute). If you do end up staying in a shelter, you never know what kinds of conditions you might ...
Approaches to make cities more resilient to floods are emerging, notably with the design of flood-resilient structures, but relatively little is known about the role of urban form and its complexity in the concentration of flooding. We leverage statistical mechanics to reduce the complexity of ...
Hurricane Laura's Potential Storm Surge Watch on Hurricane Laura has also destroyed and set fire to a chemical plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana—a city just over an hour away from where Laura made landfall. As of 4 p.m. on August 27, at least four deaths resulting from the hurricane hav...
Plant trees to form a windbreak on rural properties, ensuring trees are a safe distance from your home. State-by-state storm warning information The BOM issues severe thunderstorm warnings on social media. Regularly check theBOM websiteor for automated weather warnings for all states and territorie...
Florida’s expansive coastline, low elevation, and porous limestone foundationmake it vulnerable to flooding. The changing climate is likely to bring more severe storm surge from hurricanes and more tidal flooding. Rising sea levels could push salt water into the freshwater supply, damaging water-man...
That changes as the storm makes landfall, and friction with the ground slows winds at lower altitudes, which also drives them towards the centre of the storm. When the air is hot and humid enough, these intense winds can form tornadoes. ...
But probably, one of the most dangerous parts of a hurricane is what's known as the storm surge. And the storm surge is the water that comes ashore pushed by the winds of the hurricane itself. So remember, when we were talking about how hurricanes form, we noted that there they form ...
Generators form the heart of a modern power station. In the next section, we'll take a look at how one of these stations works. Faraday: Patron Saint of Electricity Nineteenth-century British physicist and chemist Michael Faraday paved the way for our modern electricity-driven world. The famed...