Topic: Hurricanes

Astronaut Douglas Wheelock aboard the International Space Station (ISS) caught this image of the eye of the

storm as the ISS flew over Hurricane Earl just to the east on Sept. 3. Wheelock noted that it looks like magnificent

chaos from up there on the Space Station and called it incredibly breathtaking.Credit: NASA, Douglas Wheelock

A hurricane is a • Low pressure, tropical cyclone, over

warm water

• Winds exceeding 74 mph

• Winds move counterclockwise and inward.

The Anatomy of a Hurricane Katrina August 28, 2005

Eye

Eye Wall

Spiral Rain

Bands

Eye: center of the storm where it is calm, few clouds.

• Used to classify hurricanes categories 1-5

• Based on wind speeds

Saffir-Simpson Scale

House blown away at Pascagoula, Alabama (Hurricane Katrina)

What is the #1 cause of deaths by hurricanes?

Storm Surge: rising of sea level due to high winds and waves.

• Causes 90% of all deaths, injuries and damages

Cars are submerged at the entrance to a parking garage in New York's Financial

District in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. New York

City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets

and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater

and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP

Photo/Richard Drew)

This breach in Fire Island National Seashore was created by Hurricane Sandy, and

National Park Service officials have not decided whether to let it refill on its own or

send crews to fill it in. NPS photo of the Old Inlet breach.

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Alex

Bonnie

Colin

Danielle

Earl

Fiona

Gaston

Hermine

Igor

Julia

Karl

Lisa

Matthew

Nicole

Otto

Paula

Richard

Shary

Tomas

Virginie

Walter

Arlene

Bret

Cindy

Don

Emily

Franklin

Gert

Harvey

Irene

Jose

Katia

Lee

Maria

Nate

Ophelia

Philippe

Rina

Sean

Tammy

Vince

Whitney

Alberto

Beryl

Chris

Debby

Ernesto

Florence

Gordon

Helene

Isaac

Joyce

Kirk

Leslie

Michael

Nadine

Oscar

Patty

Rafael

Sandy

Tony

Valerie

William

Andrea

Barry

Chantal

Dorian

Erin

Fernand

Gabrielle

Humberto

Ingrid

Jerry

Karen

Lorenzo

Melissa

Nestor

Olga

Pablo

Rebekah

Sebastien

Tanya

Van

Wendy

Arthur

Bertha

Cristobal

Dolly

Edouard

Fay

Gonzalo

Hanna

Isaias

Josephine

Kyle

Laura

Marco

Nana

Omar

Paulette

Rene

Sally

Teddy

Vicky

Wilfred

Ana

Bill

Claudette

Danny

Erika

Fred

Grace

Henri

Ida

Joaquin

Kate

Larry

Mindy

Nicholas

Odette

Peter

Rose

Sam

Teresa

Victor

Wanda

Retired Hurricane Names Atlantic Storms Retired Into Hurricane History

Agnes (1972): Florida, Northeast U.S.

Alicia (1983): North Texas Allen (1980): Antilles, Mexico, South Texas Allison (2001): northeast Texas Andrew (1992): Bahamas, South Florida, Louisiana Anita (1977): Mexico Audrey (1957): Louisiana, North Texas Betsy (1965): Bahamas, Southeast Florida, Southeast Louisiana Beulah (1967): Antilles, Mexico, South Texas Bob (1991): North Carolina & Northeast U.S. Camille (1969): Louisiana, Mississippi

Carla (1961): Texas Carmen (1974): Mexico, Central Louisiana Carol (1954): Northeast U.S. Cesar (1996): Honduras Celia (1970): South Texas Charley (2004): Jamaica, western Cuba, Florida Cleo (1964): Lesser Antilles, Haiti, Cuba,

Connie (1955): North Carolina David (1979): Lesser Antilles, Hispañola, Florida and Eastern U.S. Dennis (2005): Alabama, Florida Diana (1990): Mexico Diane (1955): Mid-Atlantic U.S. & Northeast U.S. Donna (1960): Bahamas, Florida and Eastern U.S. Dora (1964): Northeast Florida Edna (1968) Elena (1985): Mississippi, Alabama, Western Florida Eloise (1975): Antilles, Northwest Florida, Alabama Fabian (2003): Bermuda Fifi (1974): Yucatan Peninsula, Louisiana Flora (1963): Haiti, Cuba Floyd (1999): North Carolina, eastern seaboard Fran (1996): North Carolina Frances (2004): Florida

Frederic (1979): Alabama and Mississippi Georges (1998): Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Mississippi Gilbert (1988): Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Gloria (1985): North Carolina, Northeast U.S. Hattie (1961): Belize, Guatemala Hazel (1954): Antilles, North and South Carolina Hilda (1964): Louisiana Hortense (1996) Hugo (1989): Antilles, South Carolina Inez (1966): Lesser Antilles, Hispanola, Cuba, Florida Keys, Mexico Ione (1955): North Carolina Iris (2001): Belize, Guatemala Isabel (2003): North Carolina Isidore (2002): Cuba, northern Yucatan Peninsula, Louisiana

Ivan (2004): Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, western Cuba, Alabama, Wilma (2005): Janet (1955): Lesser Antilles, Belize, Mexico Jeanne (2004): Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, northern Bahamas, Florida Joan (1988): Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua (Crossed into the Pacific and became Miriam) Juan (2003): Nova Scotia Katrina (2005): South Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama Keith (2000): Belize, Mexico Klaus (1990): Martinique Lenny (1999): Antilles Lili (2002): Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Louisiana Luis (1995) Marilyn (1995): Bermuda Michelle (2001): Central America, Cuba, northern Bahamas Mitch (1998): Central America, Nicaragua, Honduras Opal (1995): Florida Panhandle Rita (2005): northeast Texas, western Louisiana Roxanne (1995): Yucatan Peninsula Sandy (2012)

Stan (2005): Mexico

Final Question (FQ):

What hurricane factor causes the most deaths?

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