TyphoonsBlue

 tYpHoOnS!?! Starring Michael Feigenbaum, and Jake Letteney, with help from Abby the TA.

Introduction: Typhoons... Hurricanes... It is all the same. Typhoons and Hurricanes are the EXACT same things.(6) Typhoons in the northeastern pacific are called Hurricanes.(6) Typhoons are intense tropical storms as well as violent tropical cyclones that occur in the Northwestern Pacific, and Indian Oceans.(2 And 4) They form over large bodies of water.(3) The word typhoon comes from the old Greek language originating from the word Typhon.(1)There is no typhoon season like hurricanes, for the fact that typhoons occur all times during the year but most of the documented typhoons occur during May and December. The least documented number of typhoon occur between January and April.(6)Typhoons are very dangerous that they even have a national center for typhoon control.(2) All in all, typhoons are severe weather, for the fact that they both are extremely dangerous and not very predictable, but hopefully by the end of this wiki you will b e familiarized with all that has to do with a typhoon because, we are pros.



Dangers ==== Typhoons are VERY dangerous. You might think that they are less dangerous then say a hurricane or a tidal wave, but actually they all fall into the same category of dangerous affects. Much like hurricanes, tornadoes, and tidal waves, most of the damage from typhoons are not from the actual storm, the real danger occurs with the after math.(2) These effects include long delays in cars from the panic, roads washed out and flooded, and the most harmful, houses flooded.(2) This flooding is very dangerous to people for the fact that some may be killed on the streets if the flooding is big enough, and permanent damage done to houses and buildings.(2) The dangers of typhoons are much like those of other severe weather. There are small centers for tracking typhoons, but the biggest and the one that has control over the most amount of land for monitoring purposes is Japan Meteorological Agency's Regional Specialized Meteorological Center, which is located in Tokyo, monitors all of the western pacific.(6) ====

Conditions of Formation
====A typhoon occurs when a wave of rough weather, using the earths rotation, begins to rotate.The potential of generating a pressure system increases if this wave spins into a complete circle; with higher pressure on the outside and a low-pressure center.(5) ====

Historical Examples
==== On 4 October 1945, a typhoon was spotted developing in the Caroline Islands and tracked as it moved on a predictable course to the northwest. Although expected to pass into the East China Sea north of Formosa on 8 October, the storm unexpectedly veered north toward Okinawa. That evening the storm slowed down and, just as it approached Okinawa, began to greatly increase in intensity. The sudden shift of the storm caught many ships and small craft in the constricted waters of Buckner Bay (Nakagusuku Wan) and they were unable to escape to sea. On 9 October, when the storm passed over the island, winds of 80 knots (92 miles per hour) and 30-35 foot waves battered the ships and craft in the bay and tore into the quonset huts and buildings ashore. A total of 12 ships and craft were sunk, 222 grounded, and 32 severely damaged. ====