----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Wheatley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:05:51 -0400
Subject: Re: what I get for being smug :)
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hurricane- A severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial
regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of
the Pacific Ocean, traveling north, northwest, or northeast from its
point of origin, and usually involving heavy rains.
A wind with a speed greater than 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour,
according to the Beaufort scale.
Something resembling a hurricane in force or speed.
typhoon
n : a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
cy�clone P Pronunciation Key (skln)
n.
Meteorology.
An atmospheric system characterized by the rapid inward circulation of
air masses about a low-pressure center, usually accompanied by stormy,
often destructive weather. Cyclones circulate counterclockwise in the
Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
A violent tropical storm, especially one originating in the
southwestern Pacific Ocean or Indian Ocean.
A violent rotating windstorm.
Any of various devices using centrifugal force to separate materials.
----- Original Message -----
From: dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:27:20 -0600
Subject: Re: what I get for being smug :)
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Can't explain the discrepancy, unless it's a matter of above and below
the equator?
An Australian I know was talking about typhoons too. But Javier was a
hurricane and later a tropical storm.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2802656
The winds died down after I made that post, and we got a good
drenching rain over a couple of days. Kinda good news around here.
Though someone at the local community college apparently did not check
the weather, since the storm caught one of the computer labs halfway
through being re-roofed. Doh.
Every one else surviving the weather ok?
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: Katie Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:27:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: what I get for being smug :)
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yup...they're still typhoons in the Pacific....at
least in the central pacific where I am...
Katie
--- Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do they no longer call them typhoons when the storm
> is in the Pacific?
>
> -Kevin
>
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:23:04 -0600, dana tierney
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I was talking to someone on the East Coast and
> described the weather
> > here as "high and dry", which it was at the time.
> It seems though that
> > there is this hurricane Javier on the Pacific
> coast of Mexico :)
> >
> > Not that it is anything major in comparison to
> Ivan, a lot of dust
> > blowing around in a stiff wind and a few sprinkles
> of rain. So far,
> > anyway. But we are way far inland and behind a
> bunch of mountains so
> > it probably won't get much worse. Knock on wood.
> >
> >
>
>
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