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    According to NOAA‚ the Tornado of 1925 was classified as one of the destructive and deadly storms. The following information about the storm is based upon the National Weather Service account. The tornado moved across southeast Missouri‚ southern Illinois‚ and southwest Indiana‚ it remained on the ground for over 3 hours with winds over 300 MPH. The storm left 695 people dead‚ 2‚000 injured and 15‚000 homes destroyed. The Tornado of 1925 still maintains storm records even to this day‚ the longest

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    going to happen to your town. For example‚ New York didn’t know they were going to have an earthquake‚ which happened during the summer. That shows that any storm can happen anywhere‚ so always be prepared. Different things like snow‚ ice‚ high winds‚ severe thunderstorms‚ tornados‚ and hurricanes can cause power outages. Depending on the destruction‚ it takes time to het power back on‚ clear away debris‚ deliver new poles‚ wire‚ transformers‚ and other equipment‚ and to do the actual rebuilding. There

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    finding a costume for trick-or-treating‚ but in 2012‚ my community became saturated and preoccupied by the anticipation of a coming storm. Although northern New Jersey is not normally where hurricanes violently meet land and its inhabitants‚ the weather pattern became apparent that we were not going to escape this one. On October 29‚ Hurricane Sandy began to embrace and ravish everything impeding its chosen path. Instead of soccer and candy giving‚ the days were complete with continued damage from

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    is viewed as a benchmark by forecasters. "That outbreak alone helped fuel‚ kinda‚ the push to improve on not only tornado forecasting but forecasting of severe thunderstorms‚" says meteorologist Mike Ryan at the National Weather Service office in Indianapolis. He says that improvement has been accomplished through the training of weather spotters‚ better coordination with emergency managers and local responders and the availability of Doppler

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    BECK WEATHERS: 1. Bibliography: Seaborn Beck Weathers (born December 1946) is an American pathologist from Texas. He is the writer of the book “ left for dead: my journey home from mountain Everest”. 2. Situation and Actions: In the morning of May 10th when Weathers and other climbers decided to leave Camp IV and make their final assault towards the summit of Everest‚ situated just over 29‚000 feet above sea level. As Beck made his final climb towards the summit‚ he came down with an extreme

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    funnel-shaped rotating column of air that passes in a narrow path over land according to the Encarta World English Dictionary. A supercell thunderstorm thousands of feet in the air is the place a tornado forms. Tornadoes only form under certain weather conditions. There are three types of airs for a tornado to form‚ warm humid air close to the ground‚ cold air in the upper atmosphere‚ and hot dry air on top that form a cap.(na‚ 2010) Hurricanes can form tornadoes adding to their destructive power

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    I believe that a good movie such as The Shawshank Redemption (which is my all-time favorite movie) should not only entertain and able to relate to all audiences... Premium Space Weather over in studies as of yet‚ or so I thought. Heliophysics which is the science of space weather. NASA‚ (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration)‚ was put... Premium My Favorite Dogs Credibility: I have two dogs‚ a Chihuahua and a Boston Terrier. III. Preview:

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    There is one thing in the world‚ which people are ready to discuss with everyone‚ everywhere and any time. It is the weather. In my composition I am going to speculate about the significance of the weather concept and compare it in Great Britain and in Russia. British people obsessed with the weather. It is a part and a parcel of their life. I suppose that the strongest reason for it is the weather’s uncertainty. «Life at the edge of an ocean and the edge of a continent means you can never

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    EUROPEAN WEATHER DERIVATIVES This paper concentrates on where the future of the weather derivatives market may lie‚ where the new applications may be situated and what will be the main drivers of the market size. We realise that some of the applications are not currently available or commercially viable at present but take the view that‚ if demand is sufficient‚ they will become available given time. In fact‚ one of the likely drivers of demand is the rate of change in the European climate. To this

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    Missouri’s progress was ruined because of the tornado. Tornadoes are violent storms that cause mass destruction. Chiefly‚ there are different causes for a tornado. “An MCS is a cluster of thunderstorms that act as a system and often produce severe weather” (Bluestein). Many past thunderstorms formed super cells; super cells contained fast-spinning air called a mesocyclone. “The air that rises from the ground in the vortex creates low air pressure near the ground” (Bluestein). Many tornado-forming

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