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Wind Speeds Sri Lanka
510 words1. Tornadoes travel at an average of 45 mph with a diameter between 150 and 600 meters and maximum wind speeds up to 600 km / hr . Middle latitude cyclones can span across a continent and usually require 2 - 4 days to cross a region. Hurricanes range in speed from 119 km / hr to sometimes over 250 km / hr and average close to 600 km across. 2. The months from August through October are when hurricanes usually strike North America. When the ocean water temperature is warm and combines with the ho...
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Miles Per Hour Rocky Mountains
1,499 wordsFacts. A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. Types Of Tornadoes. The average tornado is usually spli...
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Burning Fossil Fuels Average Global Temperature
1,498 wordsGreenhouse Effect The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that warms the earth and enables it to support life. Without it, the average temperature on earth would be around - 18 degrees C, instead of the current + 15 degrees C a frozen wilderness. It works on the same principles as the ordinary glass garden greenhouse, where glass allows light to get in, but does not allow for the heat to get out. This makes for a much higher temperature inside the greenhouse. On a planetary scale, similar ...
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Tropical Storm Wind Speeds
2,645 wordsKauia Hurricane Iniki Hurricane Iniki Kauia County, Hawaii consists of the islands of Kauia and Niihau. Kauia is a 555 -square-mile island with a population of about 57, 000 people. Lihue, the largest city on Kauia, is home to an estimated 12, 000 people. Kauia is one of the wettest spots on Earth with an annual rainfall averaging 400 inches. It has seven microclimate's including desert-like conditions on the west to tropical rain forests in the interior. Many species of endangered or threatened...
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Wind Turbines Wind Speeds
633 wordsWind is created Wind Wind Wind is created from the earths warm air rising and creating a vacuum that causes cooler air to replace it. This flow is constantly disturbed by the rotation of the earth and local atmospheric conditions. This rotating cycle results in what we call wind. When harnessed, using sails, mills, and modern wind turbines, wind can serve us a powerful and renewable energy source that may soon become very important to our modern lifestyles. Wind can be converted into mechanical ...
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