Chapter 20: Severe Storms Tornadoes Hurricanes. Hurricanes!!
Tracking Hurricanes in the classroom using Realtime Data.
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Tracking Hurricanesin the classroom using
Realtime Data
Hurricanes are steered by global winds
Small high pressure over Bermuda
Large high pressure over Bermuda
Atlantic Water Vapor Loop – shows circulation
Central America
South America Africa
A picture is taken 15 minutes before noon and 15 minutes before midnight (UT) with the last 5 days showing (12 pix in all)Hurricane Ivo off Baja
Hurricane Ivo
Category I hurricane on Sep 19th
Winds dropped below 74 mph at 5:00 pm on Sep 21
Sep 16 2345
Category 1 hurricane here
Ivo is moving in a northerly direction, not to the west
Tropical Depression currently in Gulf of Mexico
www.seagirt.k12.nj.us/dunbar/hurricanes.htm