GEOG 2050 : Test 4 Notes
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billion in 1998: katrina ~ billion, doppler radar detects direction of moisture droplets indicating direction and speed of storms, ex: huntsville doppler radar was hit by tornado! Figure 8. 19: max florida: over 100 days of thunderstorms near tampa (lightning capital of the us) , orographic lifting (figure 8. 6c) [because of mt: a physical barrier forces air up or down, adiabatically cooling (dar or mar) reaches dew point temperature air parcel is saturated. April 20: (chapter 8)- stationary front, occluded front, global quasi-stationary front, arctic and north atlantic oscillation (chap. April 23: (chapter 8)- violent weather, sleet, thunderstorms, turbulence, lightening, thunder, hail, derechos, microburst, macroburst: violent weather, weather with potential for damage, destruction, and loss of life. Co because it"s colder: derechos, straight-line winds, >58 mph, convective storms, frequent in summer in the midwest and gulf coast, squall line gust front, bow or spearhead shaped thunderstorms.
