Global Warming

     Scientists have spent decades figuring out what is causing global warming. They've looked at the natural cycles and events that are known to influence climate. But the amount and pattern of warming that's been measured can't be explained by these factors alone..

     One of the first things scientists learned is that there are several greenhouse gases responsible for warming, and humans emit them in a variety of ways. Most come from the combustion of fossil fuels in cars, factories and electricity production. The gas responsible for the most warming is carbon dioxide, also called CO2.

   moreover, other contributors are methane. It is  released from landfills and agriculture (especially from the digestive systems of grazing animals), nitrous oxide from fertilizers, gases used for refrigeration and industrial processes, and the loss of forests that would otherwise store CO2. Different greenhouse gases have very different heat-trapping abilities. Some of them can even trap more heat than CO2. A molecule of methane produces more than 20 times the warming of a molecule of CO2. Nitrous oxide is 300 times more powerful than CO2. Other gases, such as chlorofluorocarbons have heat-trapping potential thousands of times greater than CO2; because their concentrations are much lower than CO2, none of these gases adds as much warmth to the atmosphere as CO2 does. Since the 1990s, yearly emissions have gone up by about 6 billion metric tons of "carbon dioxide equivalent" worldwide, more than a 20% increase.

  Green house gases are said to be can in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on Earth. we can not go back and change the damage that we have already caused but we can always start now to minimize the threat.

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-causes

 

Massy Friday

Black Friday/Messy Friday

    Most of Northern New England will wake up to a very messy Friday, combination of snow, sleet or freezing rain is likely across most of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Some rain showers will be extend southward the middle Atlantic Coast. Colder sir will come from the west. After some rain showers, it will slowly change to snow showers over the parts of upstate New York.

     More over, colder air will be taking over the warm lakes by Friday afternoon.

It would be very smart that those in New York who are getting ready to go do some black Friday shopping, check on the forecast as it states that it will receive several inches of snow.

The temperatures for most of the Northern states will be on the high 30s, as the upstate New York temperature stays high 30s the middle Atlantic region will be in the mid 50s.

    

   The wintry conditions be felt and noticed from Vermont to Michigan as the lake effect snow event will dump snow on the area. As this cold air reaches the lake Superior it will also bring some snow. Snow showers will fall over parts of the northern Minnesota but no accumulation is to be expected.

    While the north east are experiencing this cold weather, most of the Midwest states will be seeing some sunshine and warmer weathers. Making it easier to get those last black Friday shopping done. The temperatures are expected to range from 20s from the northern Plains and northern Great Lakes to the middle 50s over the southern Plains.

     Most of the south with experience showers, with high temperatures of 70s from North Carolinas to Georgia. Florida will be loving it it will be at least 80 degrees, while south west states will be experiencing temperatures of 40s to 50s.

http://www.weather.com/maps/news/forecastsummary/uscurrenttemperatures_large.html

 

Forecasting can be broadly considered as a method or a technique for estimating many future aspects of a business or other operation. There are numerous techniques that can be used to accomplish the goal of forecasting. For example, a retailing firm that has been in business for 25 years can forecast its volume of sales in the coming year based on its experience over the 25-year period—such a forecasting technique bases the future forecast on the past data.

     

The term "forecasting" may appear to be rather technical, planning for the future is a critical aspect of managing any organization—business, nonprofit. The long-term success of any organization is closely tied to how well the management of the organization is able to foresee its future and to develop appropriate strategies to deal with likely future scenarios. Intuition, good judgment, and an awareness of how well the economy is doing may give the manager of a business firm a rough idea (or "feeling") of what is likely to happen in the future.

Nevertheless, it’s not easy to convert a feeling about the future into a precise and useful number, such as next year's sales volume or the raw material cost per unit of output. Forecasting methods can help estimate many such future aspects of a business operation. If the forecaster has an idea of what the real disposable income may be in the coming year, a forecast for future auto sales can be generated. One should remember that forecasts based on this method should also be judged on the basis of a measure of forecast errors. One can continue to assume that the forecaster uses the mean squares error discussed earlier. Using forecast, errors regression analysis uses additional ways of analyzing the effectiveness of the estimated regression line in forecasting.

These pictures are few ways that we get out forecast, now days it all technology!!!

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/02/forecasting-with-a-grain-of-salt/

 

Nations Weather

     Weather has been predicted to be very sever this year, this weather is believed to move through the middle portion of the country by the end of this weeks due to the development of the two low pressure systems.

     The first low pressure system is expected to begin the day just north of the North Dakota before moving northeastward toward the Hudson Bay. The cold front, that is associated with a storm would remain draped from states like Oklahoma through the upper Midwest. Due to this weather, rain is forecast to fall along these fronts, the heaviest precipitation is expected over the mid states.

    The second low pressure system is expected to develop by Friday in the afternoon and evening as it moves out to the Southern Rockies and into the Southern plains. Colorado Rockies should be able to receive some snow throughout the day as the storm moves to the east.

    Furthermore, a Pacific cold front is also expected to appear into the Northwest by this weekend. This front will be bringing rain and high elevation snow for states such as Washington and Oregon. The Northeast is expected to have high temperatures of 40s and 50s. However, the Southeast should be able to see temperatures in the 70s and 80s.

    With is sever weather, areas such as Iowa to Wisconsin will experience a snowfall, as the storm that has already brought snow to the parts of the West. The snow is expected to fall by Saturday morning across part of the northern Iowa than streak to the eastern Wisconsin. The snow should end by early Sunday morning, the cold snow however, will remain. Its best that the citizens know that the snow will not go away all at once.

    This weekend is bringing more autumn bliss for most people in the East, but the winter is catching up early this year.

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/41408/east-beautiful-weekend-weather-1.asp

 

Tropical Depression Tomas

As the Island of Haiti is still recovering from the divesting earthquake back in January of 2010, they are now under a hurricane threat. The government had already issued a warning and had all the victims of the earthquake at the refuge camps advised to seek safety at any homes they can find.

             However, with the recent updates on the tropical storm/ depression Tomas, the NHC has now given the people of Haiti some relief. They have said that Tomas was just a disorganized tropical depression as of Wednesday forecasters don’t expect it to regain hurricane force. The storm winds are about 35 miles per hour and was about 390 miles southwest of Port-au-Price, Haiti, and moving west- northwest at about 6 miles per hour.

Hurricanes can be very unpredictable unfortunately.  There is a brief increase in wind shear over Tomas is the suspected culprit behind the weakening trend. However, shear is expected to weaken soon. With the lighter wind shear the atmospheric conditions should be ideal for Tomas to begin strengthen by tonight. The forecast still calls for Tomas to become a tropical storm, by Thursday night or Friday. Tomas should gradually turn toward the northwest today and toward the north tonight and Thursday. On the current forecast path Tomas could pass close to Jamaica Thursday night and Friday morning. For that reason a tropical storm watch is in effect for Jamaica. Tomas is forecast to pass over western Haiti later Friday and Friday night as a tropical storm; Tomas is predicated to  bring heavy rainfall, flooding and mud slides to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic Thursday through at least Saturday. This would be particularly devastating to Haiti.

The Storm has already killed 14 people and left seven missing in the eastern Caribbean nation of St. Lucia.  

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/

As the storm in the Midwest makes its history we must not forget the hurricanes. As of Tuesday tropical storm Shary has formed in the Atlantic basin. This tropical is located about 350 miles of Island of Bermuda. The top winds are about 40 mph. A tropical storm watch is effect.

Tropical Storm Shary is expected to turn toward the north and slow in forward speed on Friday, followed by a turn to the northeast on Friday night. This track brings the center of the storm near or over Bermuda late on Friday.

The system is stationary in areas of low pressure located about 1200 miles to the northwest of the Verde Islands. The system has the wind shears and may not develop right away. It is believed that the system will remain nearly stationary for a while. And it may begin to drift to the west or northwest by Friday. It must be noted that at this point this system is not yet a threat to the land.

The third system is very well developed, it is located in South America. The winds at 15 to 20 mph are moving toward the west and northwest.

An atmospheric conditions are and will be developing tropical wave. There is believe that this wave has the possibility to to develop an area of low pressure and become a tropical cyclone before it reaches the Windward Island this weekend. This should not be taken lightly, everyone should be on the watch for this system over the weekend.

As the tropical storm in the South America develops in to a hurricane, Okinawa, Japan gets a visit from the Typhoon Chaba yesterday. This typhoon is expected to continue moving northeastward toward main Japanese Islands. It appears that top winds in Chaba could be 60 to 65 mph as it approaches Japan but the highest winds should stay offshore. Parts of Honshu Island could see some heavy rains.

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/

Unusual Severe activities

Unusual Severe activities

As we enter the fall season, the Southwest of United States is getting showers and thunderstorms accompany an upper level low. Some of the thunderstorms could become severe producing hail, damaging wind gusts and isolated tornadoes in eastern New Mexico. The heavy downpours from these storms could possibly produce flooding in States such as; Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado, South Utah, and possibly Nevada. According to the lead meteorologist, Kevin Roth from the weather channel all of this could happen as soon as October 21.

We could see the storm moving into the southern plains by Friday and leaving a light rain and some mountain snow showers in Colorado, Utah and eastern part of Nevada. Palin States like Texas should see some severe weather to go across it.

Oregon and Southern California are also victims of this new storm. These to states will be getting some showers later today and these showers should spread northward along the coast to Washington and Inland to the Cascade and northern Sierra- Nevada by tonight.

The temperatures on the Southwestern part of United States is expected to be around mid 60s and 70s for the entire regain with the exception of western part of Arizona and eastern California is believed to be in the low 80s .

Tonight the storms are expected to shift the eastward reaching central Oklahoma and central Texas by Friday morning. The storms should not be severe after midnight. Temperatures might be in the lower to middle 70s in eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, far northern Georgia and western Texas.

Most of the Northeast part of the country is expected a cold front and drops through the region bringing a lot of showers. And colder air will be moving behind the cold front and changing the rain over to snow in the mountains of Northern New York and northern New England. The remainder of the region should be dry ad with some clouds. The temperatures are expected to be in the Mid 40s and lower 50s.

The Midwest part of the country has some colder air blowing in from Canada and this air will pick up some moisture as it comes across the Great lakes and deposits it in the form of showers in Michigan Ohio. There is no snow for those states. The Isolated thunderstorms might move into southwestern Kansas very late by this afternoon as a storm system moves through the southern Rocky Mountains. During the evening and overnight tonight the thunderstorms should expand into all of southern Kansas with showers moving into northern Kansas.

The remainder of the region is enjoying a sunny to partly cloudy and mild day. The temperatures for this part of the country will/expected to be in low and mid 60s and 70s. As always these are only predictions the weather could change on us at any given minute; but, it’s always a good/smart idea to prepare for the worse. We should be able to see these changes in our weather anywhere from 24 to 48 hours.

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/nationalforecast/index.html

Hurricane Paula

Even though the hurricane season is almost over we will see at least few more hurricanes before the end of November. A recent hurricane that was spotted in the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula and the west of Cuba, the winds were 100 mph as of this past Tuesday. The hurricane known as Paula, centered at about 85 miles southeast of Mexico according to the National Hurricane Center. Paula is looked at as a small but very powerful hurricane. Hurricane paula tipped the scale in to a hurricane strength earlier today and was intensified very quickly to a category 2 storm.

Hurricane warning are in effect for the coast of Mexico from the Punta Gruesa north to the Cabo catche including the Cuban province of Pinar del Rio. According to the National Hurricane Center, hurricane Paula should be strengthening by Thursday and will be weakened after that.  

            The Hurricane Center described Paula as "small," given that its hurricane-force winds extend outward only up to 15 miles (30 kilometers) from the center and tropical strength-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles (95 kilometers).

            Hurricane Paula is predicted to drop about three to six inches of rain over the eastern portion of the Yucatan Peninsula. Also, it is predicated that in some isolated areas the maximum amount rain will be about ten inches. This would or will cause a flash floods and mudslides.

        My advice to the people that live in the mentioned locations to this the hurricane Paula seriously and prepare for it appropriately; even though, the National Hurricane center has predicted this hurricane to be small, the size could change at any given point. So educate one another and make sure that there is enough food saved up for a few days.

            From the prediction that the center has this hurricane will not reach the united states but the state like Florida might experience strong winds and gusts and rain.  

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/12/tropical.weather/index.html

On my first blog I had mentioned that the scientists were on a mission to study hurricanes. Their goals were to be find an answer to some of the most fundamental yet still unanswered questions of hurricane science. Questions such as: What ultimately causes hurricanes to form? Why do some tropical depressions become strong hurricanes, while others fritter away? What causes the rapid strengthening often seen in hurricanes? 

Even though that this year hurricanes were not as severe as they were predicated to be, the scientist still got a chance to study the once we did have.

            The mission was to capture data on hurricanes as they formed and intensified. The DC-8, WB-57 and Global Hawk, got the chance to fly over hurricane Earl four times, criss-crossing the storm as it intensify  from category one to a category four hurricane, until it got weakened. On the last day or the list fly over hurricane Earl, as the storm was breaking down and losing strength, the Global Hawk made its debut hurricane flight and passed over Earl's eye in concert with the DC-8, providing valuable comparison measurements for the instruments on-board both aircraft. Scientists were very pleased with the Global Hawk over the hurricane.

           The GRIP planes were also able to fly to tropical systems such as Gaston that were forecast to strengthen and become hurricanes but in the end did not. In the search to understand why some tropical depressions become hurricanes and others don't, these were also important flights. Scientists, who had worked very hard during this research, will spend years to finally get all of the questions about hurricanes answered. The observations that were made will provide an insight with great value to meteorologists. This study will benefit from more accurate forecasts of storm strength and development.

            In short, with this project the scientists have gathered enough information to fully understand hurricanes; but it will take them maybe years before they are fully done with the research and have all the questions answered and provide the society a better understanding about hurricanes and why they form.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071129183753.htm

  

What's in a Hurricane's Name?

 Have you ever wondered where Hurricanes get their names from? Long go storms were given the names of the saints, old military phonetic alphabet names (i.e., Able, Baker, Charlie, etc.) or even just Euro-American women's names. Nowadays storms can be nicknamed not just Danielle, Laura and Teresa, but Norbert, Kiko, Omeka, Lekima or Krovanh -- to name a few formally selected by a selections on lists maintained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

            In the old days, the storms such as hurricanes were born and had to struck the land and make their damage, and if they were memorable enough in a heartbreaking way than they were named. For example, the “The Storm of the ‘48’’ or the “San Felipe of 1876,” these were the storms that were named because they were very memorable in a tragic way.

            About six decades a go no one really had ever seen or knew much about the hurricane’s cyclopean face or the space; people used to hurricanes names that most are blinded to know the movements of the hurricanes until its usually too late. The weather satellites and the forecasting tools have made it possible to track storms; because of this fast developing technology meteorologists can give proper names to hurricanes and make hurricane warning usually before the hurricanes touches the land. As I had mentioned in the previous blogs that meteorologists and other researchers are in the Atlantic Ocean tracking hurricanes; this would not have happened if it wasn’t for the technology that we have today.

            The first official proposal to name the hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean was just right after the World War II. And that name was a military alphabet approach; it was then dropped in the 1950s in the favor of women’s names. In 1979, it was decided that the names of men and women would alternate on the alphabetical list.

            There were a lot more lists, the two list the at most Americans were familiar covered the Atlantic and the East Pacific. However, there are also lists with culturally appropriate names that cover the Central North Pacific, Western North Pacific, Australian Region, Fiji Region, Papua New Guinea Region, Philippine Region, Northern and Southern Indian Ocean.

The Atlantic and East Pacific lists each have six lists of 21 alphabetical names (excluding letters Q, U, X, Y and Z), which are recycled every six years, unless a storm is so awful that its name is retired -- like Katrina, for instance. There will never be another Hurricane Katrina, Camille, Andrew, Ike or Paloma.

"Any member can request that a name be removed if there is extensive damage and/or deaths caused by a named tropical cyclone," said meteorologist Max Mayfield,

The members of the hurricane committee then simply vote on any names nominated; this process usually take a long time before the committee agree on the name change and give the hurricane the appropriate name.

This system of naming the hurricanes seemed to be working as of now; however, the question about naming the hurricane after humans comes up often and meteorologists and hurricanes specialists are often asked if naming the storm after humans is the best approach.  


http://news.discovery.com/earth/hurricane-names-storms.html

Tropical Storm Matthew

Meteorologists predicted that the tropical storm Matthew could become a hurricane by Saturday. Tropical Storm Matthew is about 380 miles east of Nicaragua at the latitude of 14.2 norths and longitude of 77.7 west. This tropical storm has about the maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and is moving west at 16 mph. Because of the information the national hurricane center has provided, there is a hurricane watch in effect from Nicaragua to Honduras.

The center of the tropical storm Matthew is believed to be near the border of Nicaragua and Honduras by late Friday. The tropical storm is predicated to be moved from the border of Nicaragua and Honduras in to the coast of northern Honduras on Saturday. Strengthening is forecast, and the Tropical storm Matthew could become a hurricane by Saturday.

The center of the Caribbean Sea is the classic area for the storms in late September and October to develop. It’s always a wise decision for folks to make sure that they educate themselves and their families. Every one need to have a hurricane plan, remember that this is the season for tropical storms and hurricanes so if one is planning on going to vacation somewhere in any of the Caribbean islands I would suggest that people hold off on their vacation until the hurricane season is over which will be in November.

The Tropical Storm Matthew is over 800 miles south of Florida; I do not believe that Florida had anything to worry about. I do not believe that the tropical storm even if it turns to a hurricane will cause any damage or even reach Florida.

            As of now the hurricane warning is in effect for Nicaragua, Honduras and the offshore islands. Meteorologists predicate that tropical storm Matthew is expected to move towards into the southern or southwestern Gulf of Mexico early next week. Hopefully, this does not cause a lot of harm.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/weather/hurricanes/tropical-storm-matthew-forms-could-threaten-florida/1123562

What is a Sandstorm

     Sandstorms are dry winds, these dry winds blow over the deserts that raises and carries along clouds of sand or dust often so dense as to obscure the sun and reduce visibility almost to zero. These winds are usually the result of convection currents created by intense heating of the ground. These winds are strong enough to move dunes, and often are interferes with travel, sometimes obliterating roads in flat dry regions such as those of the west part of the United States. The simoom (or simoon) is the dust- and sand-laden desert wind of North Africa and Arabia that contributes largely to the atmospheric dust over Europe; evidence of the dust from simoon winds has also been found on the seafloor at considerable distances from shore. Some sandstorms are often appearing as solid walls of dust as much as 5,000 ft high. Sandstorms usually arrive without warning and will advance in the form of a big wall of dust and debris.  

      Most sandstorms occur in spring, and during the daytime. The last recorded devastating sandstorm in American history was the Dust Bowl, which caused the depression. This sandstorm occurred near Tucson, Arizona, on July 16, 1971, and was extensively documented by meteorologists. Unfortunately, we cannot prevent sandstorm from happening, however; researchers state that by deforestation and excessive cultivation of farmland can cause a sandstorm problem.

    Also, Over-grazing and excessive use of water resources can also cause sandstorms. In order to protect ourselves from sandstorms is to wear protective goggles and suits. Also people can install special air filters in their cars to prevent sand from getting into the engine. Sandstorms not only damage the materialistic things that we may have, Sand storms can cause hacking coughs, and the sand and dust have also been known to be capable of carrying 'infectious diseases'. Sand particles, unlike dust ones, will clog air passages, and cause the person who breathes them in to choke.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/sandstorm.aspx

Situation in the Atlantic

    There are three possible hurricanes developing in the Atlantic Ocean as I am writing this blog. These possible hurricanes may get very close to United States. Meteorologists believe that huge mass of thunderstorms are currently moving from westward across Africa. This new disturbing news is expected to become a tropical storm in the next few days, and of course most tropical storms become hurricanes.

    As I had perversely mentioned in my first blog that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and few other organizations had plans to fly over the Atlantic Ocean as part of the space agency's summer campaign to study hurricane formation and intensification in unprecedented; and they have, they were monitoring hurricane Earl . They will be flying and monitoring these possible hurricanes to be until the end of the month of September.

   I am sure that most people are by now sick of these hurricanes, but I strongly believe that once people stop worrying about this possible hurricanes that’s when most damage happens. It’s always best that the public is educated and kept up to date with the developing news on the developing hurricanes.

   According to the research I have done on the developing hurricanes, these are only predictions of the meteorologists that are monitoring it.

   One of the tropical storms that the national hurricane centre is especially keeping on close eye on is the Tropical Depression, Igor. Igor is predicted to be category two by the end of this week, but it will still be far from the United States.

   The Atlantic Ocean going through some terrifying times right now because of the hurricane season and it won’t be pretty until November. That is when the hurricane season will be over. For the time being all we can do is hope for the good news and watch for surprises.

                                         This is the GFS model's interpretation of the tropical Atlantic on

                                                    Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Igor is the "L" in the middle. The other

                                                                  two trouble makers lie to the left and right of Igor.

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/36920/three-hurricanes-may-prowl-the-1.asp

Hurricane Earl Hits East Coast

      Hurricanes are unpredictable, unthinkable and unstoppable. When Katrina hit the gulf coast The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not expect the hurricane to hit as bad as it did. Katrina started as a tropical storm and built up its category and intensity over the warm seas of the Gulf of Mexico.Just like Katrina, hurricane Earl started as a tropical storm over the Caribbean’s Islands.

     Tropical storm warning was in effect for Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Barthelemy, Saba and St. Eustatius on Sunday August 29th. Within 48 hours latter a hurricane warning was issued for the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Monday, with hurricane conditions possible on Monday August 30th.

A satellite image showed Hurricane Earl approaching the United States on Thursday morning. Fiona currently a tropical storm, can be seen behind Earl.

    

     The storm, which had weakened from a category 4 to a category 1 hurricane, raced past North Carolina's Outer Banks, a fragile chain of barrier islands, early Friday morning, and was expected to hit Massachusetts' Cape Cod later in the day. Hurricane Earl As of 5 p.m. Eastern Time Friday September 3, Earl was located about 230 miles south-southwest of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and had top winds near 80 miles per hour.

      When the storm was expected to hit the costal parts of the United States warning were sent out to those states. I believe since hurricane Katrina, a lot of the people are taking the hurricanes and the warnings that the news and other agencies put out a lot more serious! The fact that the news was telling the people of those eastern states to prepare themselves in such advance shows that we have learned of the disasters that can come with hurricanes. Luckily, hurricane Earl did not make landfall and stayed more out on the ocean because damage was minimal but, yet; those people took it very serious and were prepared for the worst.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/updated-storm-warnings-for-u-s/

 

Hurricanes Research

     While searching for a particular weather related event I found the Hurricanes interest me the most. Hurricanes form and strengthen over oceanic regions. Hurricanes, depending on what parts of the world are accruing go by different names such as; typhoon, and the tropical cyclone. I thought hurricanes were the least expensive, the deadliest, but after doing a research on it I have learned that hurricanes are very deadly and do a lot of damage. Hurricanes have potential to spawn dangerous tornadoes. And they contain winds in       excess of 74 miles per hour.

                                          (The above picture shows the forming of a hurricane)

      The way that hurricane is usually formed by moisture evaporating it rises until enormous amounts of heated moist air are twisted high in the atmosphere. And the winds begin to circle counterclockwise north of the equator or clockwise south of the equator. The center of the hurricane is called the eye. Hurricanes are most powerful when in the warm waters once it reaches land or cooler waters, it loses its source of power, and its wind gradually slow until they are no longer of hurricane force. Hurricanes form during the summer and autumn time of the year.

     Do you ever wonder why some clouds clusters thunderstorms organize themselves into hurricanes and others do not? Well I always wondered that question myself and after this research I have learned that researchers are designed to directly attack this question. What I have learned and had the knowledge of hurricanes was that they form in the warm waters with temperatures of up to 79F. During August through September 30, of 2010 three aircrafts will be taken to the sky and try to target the question I mentioned above and hopefully we will have a better understanding of hurricanes and maybe just maybe will be able to target them before they target us.

      Moreover, Hurricanes; form because of the warm moist waters. Hurricanes are also known as typhoons in Western North Pacific and are known as tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean.

     I will be keeping up with the National Center for Atmospheric Research; Hurricanes research, and hopefully I will be able to update my blog with the new learning of hurricanes and get a better understanding of this so called the deadliest weather storm of all. At the mean time please take some time to click on the link and watch the 9minute video of the three aircrafts and the forming of hurricanes.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/why-do-hurricanes-form.html