Local winds are the ordinary winds. They are influenced by various landforms such as vegetation, hill, plains, water bodies, mountains and so on. The blow variedly and the changes are because of different temperatures and pressure regions during the night and day. Local winds are the kind of...
and the U.S. Geological Survey—monitor specific physical forces capable of causing the most damaging and deadly natural disasters (that is, earthquakes, tsunamis,droughts, flooding, and winds driven by tornadoes and tropical cyclones). Many of these organizations within specific countries cooperate wi...
in those regions to the north and south of the equatorial belt that lie beneath these descending, dry air masses. This pattern may be interrupted where local precipitation is increased, especially on the east sides of continents where winds blow onshore, carrying moisture picked up over theocean...
Eight weather types (WTs) are computed over 98.75 degrees W-56.25 degrees W, 8.75 degrees N-31.25 degrees N using cluster analysis of daily low-level (925 hPa) winds and outgoing long-wave radiation, without removing the mean annual cycle, by a k-means algorithm from 1979 to 2013. The ...
According to characteristics, velocity and blowing pattern of wind systems, it can be divided into three types: ADVERTISEMENTS: 1. Permanent Wind Systems, 2. Local Wind Systems, and 3. Coastal, Land and Sea breeze. The permanent wind systems are trade winds—Westerlies; local wind systems like...
A severe thunderstorm will have winds of 58 mph or higher and will produce hail with a diameter of 1 inch or larger. These high winds can cause serious damage to property, even if they do not result in a tornado. High winds resulting in 70-75 mph known as a “derecho” can reach ...
A cyclone is a huge strong wind system that blows around the centre of an intense low-pressure area. Cyclones are the local name of the Indian Ocean
During the warm season, powerful thunderstorms can cause local flooding and damaging hail. More alarming, however, the storms may spawn tornadoes and thunderstorm outflow winds leading to fatalities, hi early summer and then again in the fall, tropical cyclones can strike with attendant damaging ...
and covered with granules. The shingles are heavier and harder to work with than fiberglass, but they generally offer better stability in high winds. Although you can still see them on many roofs, organic shingles have been mostly phased out or discontinued over the course of last decade. ...
If the wind were a homogeneous stream of air blowing from one constant direction, long straight dune ridges oriented at right angles to the wind would result. Most dunes, however, are neither straight nor at right angles to the wind, and this indicates that the winds are not a uniform ...