16. Hurricane, Typhoons and Cyclones
Let's play!
Visit the following sites and play the games to see how a hurricane is formed: https://scied.ucar.edu/interactive/make-hurricane
You will learn about the conditions necessary for the formation of a hurricane.
Where do tropical cyclones occur? Where are tropical cyclones located in terms of latitude?
What conditions promote the development of tropical cyclones?
Do tropical cyclones form over land?
No hurricane ever crossed the equator. Do you know why?
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/6mUsaQ1M1syRzanZ/?mibextid=oFDknk
Do you know that the names of tropical cyclones have been pre-assigned? Check out the names of the tropical cyclones this year!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_naming
It was the strongest cyclone to hit land in recorded history.
On November 8, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines, whipping the low-lying and densely-populated islands with 200 mph winds and sending a two-story-high storm surge flooding into homes, schools, and hospitals. It wiped villages off the map and devastated cities, including the hard-hit provincial capital Tacloban. Estimates count more than 5,000 dead and millions homeless.
What made Haiyan so destructive?
Meteorologists charged with tracking Pacific storms reveal why the Pacific is such fertile ground for cyclones, and film crew documents how conditions dramatically deteriorated in the storm’s aftermath, as impassable roads and shuttered gas stations paralyzed the critical relief effort, leaving food, water, and medicine to pile up at the airport. Disaster preparedness experts scramble to understand why the Philippines was so vulnerable.
How would global warming cause an increase in number of tropical cyclones and increasing number with category 4 or 5 intensity storms.?
Tropical cyclone develops over warm sea temperature greater than 26.5°C. With global warming the temperatures over sea will increase and the frequency and intensity of cyclones will also increase.
Open the kmz file attached below using Google Earth and play the timelapse images how Hurricane Katrina developed over New Orleans.
Check out this inquiry based lesson:
https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/tropical-cyclone-inquiry/teacher-s-note