Tropical cyclones

 In the Environmental Managment class we had to do a sumery about tropical cyclones. After doing it, our teacher, Marcela Rossi, made the corrections that are mark in red. 

Climatic Hazards; tropical cyclones

Climatic hazards are agents of disaster in terms of what they may do to human settlements or to theenvironment; (sentencecopied from https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F0-387-30749-4_42) some of them are the tropical cyclones, floods and droughts. The tropical cyclones are storms that bring destruction and other consequences that generally last between 24 and 48 hours. There are three types of tropical cyclones: hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. All are the same (so there aren’t three types: correct this, please) but their names changes depending on the place where they are form. Hurricanes form in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and eastern or central North Pacific Ocean. Typhoons are in the western part of the North Pacific Ocean. Cyclones are in the North of the Indian Ocean between 100º east longitude and 45º south latitude. In this resume, I will be referring to them like hurricanes.

The name hurricane comes from the Taino (the indigenous people of the Caribbean and Florida) word “huricán”, who was the Carib Indian god of evil. However, we cannot call all the tropical cyclones of the North Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea hurricanes (What do you mean?) that is why there is a World Meteorological Organization which develops a list of names that are assigned in alphabetical order to tropical storms as they are discovered in each hurricane season. Names can be repeated after an interval of six years, but the names of especially severe storms are permanently retired from use.

Hurricanes are more common at the end of summer and beginning of autumn because the water is warmer, at least 27ºC. Other conditions necessary for hurricanes are low pressure and being within the tropics. The predictions to know when they are going to occur are the sea’s movements, measuring the speed of the winds and satellite images. 

Hurricanes go to 150 km or more and have level measuring to know how dangerous a hurricane can be. The levels 1 to 5 depends on the speed, 1 is the less destructive and 5 is the most destructive (Name of scale?) However, how hurricanes are made? When the warm air rises, causes an area of lower air pressure below. As the warmed, moist air rises and cools off, the water in the (where?) forms clouds. The whole system of clouds and wind spins and grows, fed by the ocean’s heat and water evaporating from the surface. The storm north of the equator spins counterclockwise. The storms south of the equator spin clockwise.

The effects of the hurricanes are immediate, with short-term effects and with long- term effect. Some examples of immediate effects are the destruction of buildings and people’s death. Some short effects are floods and higher sea level. Some of the long term problems are connected with diseases and the money the governments have to expend in reparations.

A very famous example was the hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated Dominica, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico in September 2017. It is regarded as the worst natural disaster on record to affect those islands and is also the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Jeanne in 2004. Nearly 5,000 people died as a result and the island continues to recover, but efforts have been delayed by its problematic power grid, and electricity has not been restored to all of the island nearly nine months after the storm. storm.