Book Report on Hurricanes
Posted 06-12-2011 at 06:00 PM by pbmaise
Updated 06-12-2011 at 07:44 PM by pbmaise (Grammer or html or add link)
Updated 06-12-2011 at 07:44 PM by pbmaise (Grammer or html or add link)
A book report or term paper on hurricanes should include information your instructor doesn't know.
Almost all teachers think there is nothing more powerful than a hurricane. That isn't true.
Hawaii has been defending itself against hurricanes with two things more powerful. Both land and the jet stream are more powerful and Hawaii has both. Better yet, Hawaii has hundreds of square miles of land on the summits of tall volcanoes that steal moisture and heat from a hurricane and make snow.
They also deflect air up into the jet stream where it gets ripped away and turned into ice crystals.
Only Kauai is hurricane prone and the rest of Hawaii doesn't get damaged. Hawaii defends itself so well that it wasn't till recently that residents learned some big rain showers came from hurricanes that tried to hit and failed.
To watch a satellite video of a hurricane die at the feet of a volcano see:
YouTube - ‪Hurricane Flossie Updated‬‏
Another video of this same hurricane and TV report is here...before you look at it..notice the huge streaks of white clouds in the first photo. Those are ice crystals being ripped off Flossie and being pushed into the jet stream.
http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=hEV1_l-8JzI
Also there are more details about Hawaii hurricanes on these two links:
List of Hawaii hurricanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://www.city-data.com/blogs/blog2...insurance.html
You should finish your book report with a sentence like...
Now that we can see how Hawaii defends itself from hurricanes, can we use that to deflect the jet stream to kill hurricanes in the Atlantic?
Note:
If you are a college student doing a term paper, then you should include the facts listed in the blog I wrote about how FEMA arbitrarily group all of Hawaii as being in a hurricane prone zone with no evidence. In fact, evidence shows the other islands have had no significant wind damage in hundreds of years. Yet residents are having to pay for special hurricane insurance that should be part of their standard homeowner's policy. Yes that part is complicated...but that is why you want to get an A on your paper.
If you are a post graduate university student doing a thesis on Hurricanes, closely evaluate the video of hurricane Flossie being ripped apart by the jet stream. Notice the large clouds formed by ice crystals that appear to the East of the Hawaii Island. It would be best if you made some attempt to estimate the both the total moisture dropped as snow on the peaks, as well as that moisture you see carried away.
Everyone keeps saying there are trillions of BTUs of energy in a hurricane, however, there are billions of lbs of snow that can drop on a hurricane. Each lb takes away about 12,000 BTU from the storm.
In a thesis, you may also want to cover the different and ideas floating about on how people think it might be possible to stop a hurricane. Focus in on how any of those methods can remove about 20 to 100 trillion BTU of energy as the bench mark of whether it has any chance to succeed.
For example people ask about using cold water, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, and powders that are endothermic.
Another good thing to track is that hurricane list on Wikipedia and compare it to snow data on the summits.
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Write me and tell me how your teacher or professor reacts to learning new information.
You are free to use information I collected. However, do not cut and paste large sections of text I wrote. Use it as reference material to write it in your own words and add some research from other websites. If you mention insurance, please do not recommend that anyone drop coverage. They should carry it as a special policy or should fight to get FEMA to drop the hurricane prone designation so it can be included in base policy.
Good luck on your book report, term paper, or thesis and save your money to come to Hawaii and watch a hurricane get destroyed by a volcano.
Philip Maise
Pahoa Hawaii
Almost all teachers think there is nothing more powerful than a hurricane. That isn't true.
Hawaii has been defending itself against hurricanes with two things more powerful. Both land and the jet stream are more powerful and Hawaii has both. Better yet, Hawaii has hundreds of square miles of land on the summits of tall volcanoes that steal moisture and heat from a hurricane and make snow.
They also deflect air up into the jet stream where it gets ripped away and turned into ice crystals.
Only Kauai is hurricane prone and the rest of Hawaii doesn't get damaged. Hawaii defends itself so well that it wasn't till recently that residents learned some big rain showers came from hurricanes that tried to hit and failed.
To watch a satellite video of a hurricane die at the feet of a volcano see:
YouTube - ‪Hurricane Flossie Updated‬‏
Another video of this same hurricane and TV report is here...before you look at it..notice the huge streaks of white clouds in the first photo. Those are ice crystals being ripped off Flossie and being pushed into the jet stream.
http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=hEV1_l-8JzI
Also there are more details about Hawaii hurricanes on these two links:
List of Hawaii hurricanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://www.city-data.com/blogs/blog2...insurance.html
You should finish your book report with a sentence like...
Now that we can see how Hawaii defends itself from hurricanes, can we use that to deflect the jet stream to kill hurricanes in the Atlantic?
Note:
If you are a college student doing a term paper, then you should include the facts listed in the blog I wrote about how FEMA arbitrarily group all of Hawaii as being in a hurricane prone zone with no evidence. In fact, evidence shows the other islands have had no significant wind damage in hundreds of years. Yet residents are having to pay for special hurricane insurance that should be part of their standard homeowner's policy. Yes that part is complicated...but that is why you want to get an A on your paper.
If you are a post graduate university student doing a thesis on Hurricanes, closely evaluate the video of hurricane Flossie being ripped apart by the jet stream. Notice the large clouds formed by ice crystals that appear to the East of the Hawaii Island. It would be best if you made some attempt to estimate the both the total moisture dropped as snow on the peaks, as well as that moisture you see carried away.
Everyone keeps saying there are trillions of BTUs of energy in a hurricane, however, there are billions of lbs of snow that can drop on a hurricane. Each lb takes away about 12,000 BTU from the storm.
In a thesis, you may also want to cover the different and ideas floating about on how people think it might be possible to stop a hurricane. Focus in on how any of those methods can remove about 20 to 100 trillion BTU of energy as the bench mark of whether it has any chance to succeed.
For example people ask about using cold water, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, and powders that are endothermic.
Another good thing to track is that hurricane list on Wikipedia and compare it to snow data on the summits.
****************************
Write me and tell me how your teacher or professor reacts to learning new information.
You are free to use information I collected. However, do not cut and paste large sections of text I wrote. Use it as reference material to write it in your own words and add some research from other websites. If you mention insurance, please do not recommend that anyone drop coverage. They should carry it as a special policy or should fight to get FEMA to drop the hurricane prone designation so it can be included in base policy.
Good luck on your book report, term paper, or thesis and save your money to come to Hawaii and watch a hurricane get destroyed by a volcano.
Philip Maise
Pahoa Hawaii
