Thursday, October 28, The Pacific Northwest experienced a memorable series of storms in late Oct. At its minimum pressure highest strength , the system was reported by the National Weather Service to have had the lowest pressure of a system over the northeastern Pacific Ocean since reliable observations began in The system was notable Read More.
Comparing Typhoon Mindulle and Hurricane Sam. Friday, October 8, From late Sept. While neither storm posed a direct threat to land, Mindulle brushed by eastern Japan, leaving heavy rainfall accumulations in the area near Tokyo. Tuesday, September 21, Although it only reached hurricane status for a brief period, Hurricane Nicholas made an impact on the northern Gulf Coast by bringing heavy rains to an area still recovering from the devastating effects of powerful Hurricane Ida, which made landfall in Louisiana just over 2 weeks earlier.
Nicholas formed after a tropical wave passed over the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Bay of Campeche, providing a focus for shower and thunderstorm development. Thursday, September 2, On the coast of Florida it is called hurricane. In the Philipines, it is called typhoon. Hurricanes occur in the Atlantic and typhoons, in the Pacific.
Basically, hurricanes and typhoons form over water and are huge, while tornados form over land and are much smaller in size. A tornado is a violent windstorm characterised by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud. In the United States, twister is used as a a colloquial term for tornado. It occurs in every part of the world but is referred to by different names.
Typhoons are hundreds of miles wide and can last up to a month. It is categorised according to the wind speed on a scale of 1 to 5. Windspeed can be up to miles per hour or more. A tornado is a form of a storm that takes place in the hot and humid areas during the time of Spring and Summer season in the northern hemisphere.
There should be a combination of both hot and cold air to form tornadoes. During thunderstorms, tornadoes occur, but it is not necessary that every thunderstorm may result in a tornado.
Tornadoes form rotating and spinning columns with the help of powerful winds. Vortex can be both horizontal and vertical. A vortex can have multiple vortexes inside it.
Tornadoes can be few feet to hundred feet and have a speed of to miles. Usually, tornadoes last from 10 minutes to half an hour. But the longer tornado is, the more destruction it is to cause. Tornadoes also occur on the water, but they cannot be said as true tornado. It occurs in the tropical countries which are closer to the equator or are at the low latitudes.
Tornadoes can be detected with the help of Pulse- Doppler Radar. A single storm can produce more than one tornado.
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