2. Tornados
Although tornadoes occur in many parts of the world, these
destructive forces of nature are found most frequently in the United
States east of the Rocky Mountains during the spring and summer
months. In an average year, 800 tornadoes are reported nationwide,
resulting in 80 deaths and over 1,500 injuries. A tornado is defined
as a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm
to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of
tremendous destruction with wind speeds of 250 mph or more.
Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and 50 miles long.
Once a tornado in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, carried a motel sign 30
miles and dropped it in Arkansas!
3. MONSOONS
Every summer, southern Asia and especially India, is drenched by rain
that comes from moist air masses that move in from the Indian Ocean to
the south. These rains, and the air masses that bring them, are known
as monsoons. However, the term monsoon refers not only to the
summer rains but to the entire cycle that consists of both summer moist
onshore winds and rain from the south as well as the offshore dry winter
winds that blow from the continent to the Indian Ocean.
The Arabic word for season, mawsin, is the origin of the word monsoon
due to their annual appearance. Although the precise cause of the
monsoons is not fully understood, no one disputes that air pressure is
one of the primary factors. In the summer, a high pressure area lies over
the Indian Ocean while a low exists over the Asian continent. The air
masses move from the high pressure over the ocean to the low over the
continent, bringing moisture-laden air to south Asia.
4. NOTHING TO JOKE ABOUT
Natural disasters should not be undermined even how low they are
on the scales that measure the natural disaster. All ways be
prepared have a survival kit have emergency contacts on your
speed dial make sure your family is save before you check on
neighbors friends etc..