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Extreme Weather

To inform you of the dangers of Extreme weather around the United States

BY: RYLEIGH TULLY, LOREN STREETER, MEAGAN FITZGERALD, GRANT SHWARTZ

What is Extreme weather?

Extreme weather around the U.S.

Extreme weather is weather that consists of natural disasters around the globe including Tornados, Hurricanes, Blizzards, Monsoons etc.

These kinds of weather can be very dangerous Biggest Natural disaster in U.S. history

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and devastating to many places around the world.

As time has gone on technology has advanced and we have been able to find out what causes these kinds of weather and ways to get warning out to people before it’s too late.

What’s coming?

Tornados Hurricanes Blizzard Monsoons Indiana Weather

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Hurricane Katrina was the biggest natural disaster in U.S. history killing or injuring more than 1836 people and causing $125 billion dollars of damage and leaving more than 80% of the city of New Orleans under water. Hurricane Katrina was a category 1 hurricane and stormed across southern Florida and boomed into Louisiana bring 125 mph winds!

Letter From

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the editors:

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This magazine is to inform you of the extreme weather around the Untied States and how to be ready for what comes your way. Also to inform you of how the natural disasters around your area form and why they happen also what is being done to get a longer warning out to the citizens to in order to get to a safe place.

As we wrote these magazines articles we learned how our storms or weather type forms and why.

Also what regions around the United States are most affected by different kinds of weather. Also we learned about how our state and where we

live is affected by natural disasters and what kind of weather is most common around us.

Knowing about weather and how it works is important because that way people will be able to study the weather types more specifically natural disaster what causes them, if there is a way to stop them, and if so does somethings need to be changed in order to be more safe. Also knowing what causes these dangerous types of weather would allow warnings to be sent out earlier to keep people safe.

Enjoy!

From, Editors

MAY 28TH 2013

Ryleigh Tully Loren Streeter Grant Schwartz Meagan Fitzgerald

Tornados The worst tornado in U.S. history was on March 18.

1925 and it was called the tristate tornado. This tornado happened at about 1 A.M. This twister of terror killed around 690 people and injured 2000 people and estimated damage was $18 million. The twister smacked towns at 70 mph!

Tornados can come in all different sizes colors shapes and sizes the most common color is gray

Tornado 411 By: Meagan Fitzgerald “Wind Swirling,whistling and pounding through out the walls of my house.” Said 22 year old Kapri Michael's. On July 16th 2009 Kapri was sitting on her patio set outside with her dogs. She has just moved into a city in Nebraska. She told us that is was going to be the last time that she was going to move. She was tossing the ball in the air when the wind started to pick up. “About an hour ago the sky was as clear as day!” She told us that the sky turned from a dazzling light blue, to a grungy green in seconds. “I stood up for a moment and looked out into the fields of Nebraska. I walked closer and closer to the street and as i did the clouds started to twist and turn, and the green started to inner mix with the black in the sky. “I told myself as i looked over the field; that i was stuck in an oversized tornado. A tornado is a swirling funnel shaped cloud that has a vortex and spins round and round and sucks in anything it can pick up.” Kapri said that this tornado was much different than the ones that she seen on the weather channel. The ones on the weather channel didn’t seem that huge? They were big, but the one she saw was oversized! “I grabbed my dogs and ran inside the house! I looked out the window and i finally saw the tornado approaching my street.” All tornadoes have a path that they attend to go down when they happen. This tornado's path was Kapri’s street. “As i turned on the weather channel i heard the tornado warnings going off and i thought to myself, isn’t that a little too late? The screen of my T.V. had gone all fuzzy but i could still get sound out of it.”

“These tornadoes usually travel at an average of 30 mph out in the south, but they can get up to at least 175 mph! This one looks like its about going at 77 mph!” Miki Mail said yelling awfully loud talking into the camera. While Kapri was so into watching the weather channel she didn’t realize that this tornado had moved a lot since the last time she looked at it. “I glanced out my window to find that it moved from the end of my street to maybe about 25-30 feet away from my house! I had to hurry if i was going to get in my underground bunker!” An underground bunker is mainly right by your house and its an underground room that you have to climb in if you don’t have a basement. Kapri said that when she was moving to her bunker that the winds were moving as fast as lighting blowing her from side to side making her hair fly off her head.The sky was much worse than it had been before. When she opened the door and was safe she heard nothing but the whistling of wind and the banging of houses crashing to the ground. “People ask me what the most terrifying moment was, i would probably say not the tornado itself but the people who didn’t have anywhere to go. Having to see some of my closest friends get tossed and thrown from this crude and awful thing is just the worse.”

Tornados last from about 2-7 minutes. Also the time that they frequently occur is between the hours of 3-9pm. Kapri said it was around 5:12pm. The hot air mixing with the cold air made an F4 tornado. That is one away from the worst tornado. Most F4 and F5 tornadoes occur in the central side of the United States. Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, and Missouri. Sad to say Kapri was in Nebraska.

Whenever you are outside during a tornado get on a flat surface and don't move also being inside a ditch is a good place to be too. “ By the time my dogs and i got down in the bunker the tornado was right over us. I could hear my shutters and my patio set leave my yard. I could barely see anything at the time, it was so dark. My stomach felt tight, like when you get punched in the stomach tight. The door of my bunker kept moving up and down. About 3-4 minutes later i didn’t hear a sound. I peek out to find that the sun is bright and my house was destroyed. Everything was ruined. I looked around to find bits and pieces to my house and other peoples houses. Stairs,beds,pots,pans everything that you can imagine is right here in front of me. My pups and I stared at our old memories and hit the road one last time. The tornado of Nebraska made us leave once again.”

Hurricane Safety Tips 1. Stay in a secure room 2. Stay away from windows 3. Do not use the phone or candles 4. Monitor weather on the radio 5. Have supplies on handy (water, food, first aid, etc.)

6. Remain indoors until it is safe outside.

Horridness Hurricanes By: Ryleigh Tully October 24, 2005. The day before I left to go home, we were sitting in the living room of my aunts house in Florida when rain started pounding against the sides of the house and the wind was unbelievably loud while crashing against the house. Looking outside of the window, all you could see was trees, bushes, signs, and even fences being blown away and slamming into everything in sight.

As we were rushing into the basement, hoping it would be safer, the lights flickered then they disappeared along with everything in sight. Huddling together in the basement, we could no longer lie to ourselves, we were in the middle of an category 5 hurricane, with nothing else we could do.

Hurricanes are grouped into a category called the Saffir- Simpson scale from 1-5 . It’s usually based mostly upon the wind speed and the damage it does. So in this case, it was definitely grouped into a 5.

We were so worried about the house being destroyed and us being safe, but every second ear piercing sounds was all you could focus on, every second, a large

hurricane releases the energy of ten atomic bombs. No wonder we couldn’t focus on anything else.

Some of the negative effects that happened here during this was strong winds, storm surges here and even throughout the region, huge tides, and flooding caused by these storm surges. Storms and flooding can happen anywhere in the country even some states that are not near an ocean. A typical hurricane can dump 6 inches of rain across a region. Most of these effects were not because of the hurricane, but because of the after effects that happen. Some positive effects that happen here are rain, heat balance, and some productivity for marine life. Before you go on vacation to somewhere with a high hurricane rate, see what time of the year it is because the hurricane season here is June 1st to November 31st, and definitely be prepared in case a hurricane does form near you.

Hurricane evacuation If you and your family are planning to evacuate, leave as soon as you are aware of a storm and only bring essential items.

Blizzards Top Five biggest blizzards 1.Blizzard of 1888 With a record breaking amount of around 58 inches.

Once you receive a storm warning get prepared! Have a storm kit with things to keep you safe during a storm; Snacks, Blankets, Flashlights, Batteries etc.

2 Blizzard of 1899 February 11, 1899 brought bone chilling temperatures and slamming down around 20 inches of white terror.

3.The Storm of the century

The white terror

the ice on the dark charcoal black pavement

By: Loren Streeter

the cars that are driving think that everything

December 12th 2010, 11:30 am cold, snowy

is fine. Until they go fast and try to turn or

and cloudy. It was the worst time to go skiing.

stop then they end up siding off the road and

Said Michael Desserae age 32. He was

crashing.

practicing for his skiing trip and didn’t know

“I was on the road when i noticed

the weather was going to be this bad. As the

the black ice. I slowed down and made sure i

wind started to pick up and the temperature

wasn’t going to slide anywhere when i turn the

started to drop drastically. He noticed the

corner. I looked behind me for just a quick

clouds starting to kind of form together with

second and then i realized my car was stuck in

spaces in between them. Since he has been

a huge thick snow drift! I couldn’t drive further

skiing for a long time he knows that those

in the drift and i couldn’t even pull out of the

clouds are never good. Michael was outside

drift. I was stuck.” I remembered that in my

prepared for normal cold and normal snow to

skiing bag I had a blizzard ready kit that I

come down. He now has realized that it was

pulled out with blankets coats and batteries

freezing and that he was stuck in a blizzard.

along with anything I would need to keep me

A blizzard is a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility. Michael said that he was just about to stop as it started to

This was the most dangerous natural disaster that ever came across the Great Lakes on November 7, 1913. Waves on the lake were up to 35 feet tall! and wind speeds were up to 60 mph causing more than 250 deaths.

5. The Children’s blizzard On January 12, 1888 the temperature dropped down to -40 degrees fahrenheit the Death toll was up to 235 people caused by previous warm weather and unprepared citizens all school children were sent home by there teachers

car because the gas that was supposed to be going out the back exhaust pipe was stuck in a snow drift which could cause carbon

huge balls of snow. Landing on his goggles

monoxide poisoning. I reached across to call

filling them up so all that he could see was

my parents as I waited in my car for 4 hours

white. “Getting down to the bottom of the

till the blizzard was over and my car was

mountain was difficult but i made it, the hard

buried up to the window. I rolled down the

part is trying to get home.” He said.

window and crawled out and found my way to the nearest plowed road and called my

a road during a blizzard. One tricky thing is

parents once again from a gas station and

that they do is create black ice. When its wet

they were able to pick me up and save me

and freezing outside the water on the

from the white terror.

pavement turns into ice. Since you can’t see

4.The White hurricane

warm and safe. I immediately turned off the

snow, and not just little flakes of snow but

It can be very dangerous being on

Just a week before Spring on March 12, 1993 a rush of snow came flooding in causing 310 deaths and $6.6 billion dollars in destruction.

Blizzard Saftey Tips -Have a blizzard ready kit in your house from late fall to early spring containing blankets flashlight, Snacks, batteries etc.

-If you ever get caught outside during a blizzard cover all exposed skin from the cold.

Monsoons

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Safety Tips Monsoon supply kit Three gallons of clean water in clean closed containers for each person/pet in your house in a safe place.

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-First Aid kit

Sea on the Road It was an August night the wind chimes were ringing outside my window as the wind picked up across the southern field. Said 41 year old Liz. When I flicked on the T.V. to the news to check on the upcoming weather for our weekend camping trip, the weather man was struggling to get out the words through the wind “This weeks weather is not looking

-A stock of nonperusable food that requires no cooking

good.” he said “As you can see behind me the winds are picking up and is starting to drizzle” he said as streams of water were running down the camera lens. “It looks as if the weather is going to be rainy and windy as far as we can see be prepared for lots of rain and very high wind speeds said the man have a good weekend back to Michelle.” In frustration and disappointment I turned off the T.V. and stormed out of the room breaking the news to the family that the camping trip was off because the

-Batteries Flashlights

weather wasn’t looking too bright Knowing that it was the safest decision to stay home we got prepared for the worst moving blankets flashlights

-Necessary medications

batteries and snacks into a top shelf a small room in the middle of the house for safety. “Were you expecting what came next” asked reporter Melanie. “Never would I have thought it would turn into what it did.” As the night went on the wind picked up at first I was reassuring myself it was just a storm but as the clock ticked I knew something was not normal. On a night like this the Season change was very obvious. I went to make a call to my neighbor wondering if she knew what was going on because I no longer had T.V. signal as I picked up the phone there was silence on the line the power was out. I found my

What is a monsoon A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing wind that often times bring lots of rain and very high wind speeds

cell phone and dialed the neighbors number I asked her “Do you know what is we should be expecting with the weather?” I panicked as I heard the words on her side of the line “liz you're not out of there yet?! There’s a monsoon coming headed straight for Jackson Mississippi! It’s too late to get out now the wind is too strong be careful!” and the my phone was dead.”

I ran back to the room and my family and I went and sat around listening to the wind whistle through the doors and windows. I heard windows break as if they had been hit with bricks I started to feel wind from above as I glanced up there was no roof and the the rain was pouring into the house!” My family and I piled into the closet for safety and waited for six hours till we heard the wind stop and the birds start to chirp once again. The town was a wreck I went to go check on neighbors as many people slushed through the seas of water looking shocked. I asked the nearest fire rescue man what had happened he said “There was a monsoon last night and it has torn the whole town apart.” “What’s a monsoon” I asked. He said “A monsoon is a seasonal wind that often times brings very fast winds and piles of rain that are very dangerous.” The town was in shambles but it brought the citizens closer than ever. “I’m glad you're all safe” Said the reporter.

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It was a hot day in July when all of a sudden a bunch

the fall it is warm and cold. In the winter it is cold. The weather is

of clouds formed in the sky and started raining really hard. I just

like this because when the sun orbits around the Earth, it is going

started thinking to myself, why does this weather happen in

to position its light on other areas in the world. So if the sun is

Indiana? So I decided to look it up.

shining really bright on Japan, it will be hot in Japan and cold in

I wanted to find out what the average temperatures

Indiana.

were for every month in Indiana. In January, the average temperature is about 25.5 degrees fahrenheit. In February, the average temperature is 29.6 degrees fahrenheit. In March, the

I wanted to know why thunderstorms happen, so I

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looked it up I found out that they happen because humid air

average temperature is 41.4 degrees fahrenheit. In April, the

condenses out the moisture it holds. So then all of the rain that the clouds hold will drop to the ground. Since we live in northwest

average temperature is 63.3 degrees fahrenheit. In May, the

Indiana, we will get lake effect snow, so will the areas around us.

average temperature is 73.8 degrees fahrenheit. In June, the

Why do we get lake effect snow? Well it happens when cold winds

average temperature is about 82.7 degrees fahrenheit. In July, the

move across warm water. So when those cold winds move, we will

average temperature is about 85.5 degrees fahrenheit. In August, the average temperature is about 83.6 degrees fahrenheit. In September, the average temperature is about 66.6 degrees fahrenheit. In October, the average temperature is about 54.7 degrees fahrenheit. In November, the average temperature is 43 degrees fahrenheit. In December, the average temperature is about 30.9 degrees fahrenheit. I thought that that was a bit chilly, so I looked into why it was cold. I found out that because we are

by Lake Michigan, we are going to get colder weather than other states.

get a lot of snow. If we ever have flooding in Indiana, it’s because there was a blizzard and all of the snow melted, A thunderstorm got really bad, Or there was a hurricane and all the water from the hurricane is going to come up by us and cause a lot of rain.

There are a lot of interesting weather things that happen in Indiana though. Since we live in northwest Indiana, we will get lake effect snow. If there is a hurricane, we will get a bunch of rain from it. We are in tornado alley, so we can get tornadoes. In 2009, Indiana got 11 tornados. It may not seem like much, but those tornadoes caused a lot of damage.

This Indiana weather information has really got me interested, so I decided that I wanted to keep looking into it. I found out a lot more information! I found out that Indiana is a continental climate, and that our weather comes from the northwest! We can get four types of precipitation by us, we can get rain, sleet, snow, and hail. In the spring we can get warm or cold air, it just depends on what is going on. In the summer it is hot. In

I found this information really interesting and I really hope that this information that I found will interest other people.

Thanks for taking your time and reading this.