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WEATHER

MAY 2013

BY NOAH BETTENHAUSEN, COREY KIJURNA, NICK SLAVIS, WILBUR BOSGRAAF [1]

Letter To the Editor, This magazine will be about certain types of weather, including things like hurricanes and blizzards. Also there is a special article on “Indiana Weather�.

We all learned more about our weather systems, and important facts about the weather. Also we learned about things that could helps in the future.

These are important because if you are going through one of these systems, you know whats happening and how to prepare.

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WEATHER May 2013

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THE TORNADO IN OKLAHOMA

Ashly was at home one foggy night, chillin watching T.V. She was watching Awkward season finally and she was into the show deeply. Right when Jake and Maddie were fighting over Jenna she didn’t notice her phone going off. When she went to text her daddy she seen all the missed calls from her mom. She didn’t know why here mom called her so many times. So she called her back and her mom didn’t answer her phone. An hour later Ashly mom called back on a payphone trying to reach Ashly’s dad. It was really awkward because at that time Ashly was jamming out to the song Payphone by Maroon 5.

After her dad got off of the phone with her mom he told her the disappointing news about oklahoma. Ashly was shocked in the news of what happened. She started to cry and she was hoping her family and her mom in Oklahoma would be ok. She heard the day before in school about the weather in the that area and, she was learning about tornado’s. A tornado is a funnel shaped cloud and it is put into different categories called the F scale. The F scale was made after a doctor named Dr. Theodore Fujita. That is what the F in F scale stands for. So after Ashly remembered that from the day before she turned the news on and she looked at the damage in Oklahoma and she knew it was a F 4. That is one of the bigger more destructive ones.

So in the next couple days Ashly mom came home and she was alive and well of course. Ashly was happy that her mommy was alright and that she could go to bed at night and not worry about her mom and that storm in Oklahoma. Ashly and her family lived good from there on and out.

Noah Bettenhausen [3]

Read the story and some facts are in there also.

WEATHER

Indiana Weather !

It’s cold, with some sideways, blowing snow making visibility near to nothing. The temperature is barely in the teens, and with wind chill its dropping more. You aren’t from the area and your not aware of the dangers so you decide to pick up a pizza for the relatives your visiting. Now your car is stuck in the driveway because the snow is piling up around the vehicle. You clear a path with a shovel that will only last a few more minutes with how the snow is piling up. You get in the car and are just hoping the car will start. It finally does, WARMTH! As you drive through town you see cars in ditches, people sliding, and hearing the radio people saying to STAY HOME! You look down to turn up the radio and then BAM, you hit a car sliding on the road head on. When you get out, you and the other person are okay...

Indiana has some of the strangest weather you will find in the 50 states.

One second you could be warm and cozy, next thing you know a breeze has kicked in that drops the temperature 10 degrees. Indiana has a humid continental climate, and goes through 6 different air masses. This makes the seasons rough for certain areas.

Depending on where you are, your area will have very tough winters. Being next

In Indiana the weather is weird we can be sunny and dry one minute and the next raining and cold.

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to Lake Michigan, Indiana has what is called lake effect snow. Lake effect snow comes from when wind is blowing on the lake, this picks up energy and the water goes to the clouds. When it is cold enough and it rains the water turns to snow. Mainly only the northern/ northwestern parts of indiana get lake effect snow. This snow usually doesn’t bring as much as regular snow, but there are a lot of occasions where it can add up to hefty amounts. The most ever recorded in Indiana was in La Porte with the amazing amount of 37 inches! This happened in during November 9-14, 1958.This type snow also can be a problem because it can add on to snow that has already fallen. When lake effect falls, it brings heavy winds which makes vision very unclear. The weather Indiana faces can be extreme, from 100+ degree days in the summer to temperatures in the negatives in the winter. Don’t get me wrong, Indiana isn’t a horrible place to live, we do have some great days. But the weather will change from day to day with ease.

Indiana also has the occasional tornado because we are on the edge of tornado alley. If a hurricane does happen on the east coast, we usually get the after affects which include a lot of windy rain.

But earthquakes, monsoons and things like that won’t happen. ! ! !

Corey Kajurna

Hurricane Imagine this, You're on vacation in Somewhere nearby Florida, and You’re enjoying your stay with the hot weather and the warm sun, with the ocean in view just outside your window. When suddenly, you see a humungous storm on the horizon sweeping in from the ocean. What you are experiencing may be a Hurricane, which is an extremely violent storm with a one particular Cyclone.

Hurricanes are almost gigantic Tornadoes, with sometimes dozens of tornadoes inside them. Hurricanes are formed in the Ocean or even sometimes in Africa. They are caused by Intense low pressure areas that form over warm ocean waters in Summer or early Fall. Much like

Tornadoes, they are caused by extreme change in the air pressure due to a cold front or a warm front.

Like Tornadoes, Hurricanes are rated on a scale from 1 to 5 based on the amount of damage they cause. This scale is called the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Hurricanes can cause a huge amount of damage. Thousands of people have lost their lives due to the raw power of Hurricanes. The 100-150 mph winds snap tree branches, flip cars, and take down your house like it was a house of cards.

The real danger in a hurricanes is the flooding. More people lose their lives due to flooding than anything else in a hurricane. The intense flooding is due to the large amount of rainfall that comes with the Hurricane.

Nick Slavis

HURRICANE

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After math of Hurricane Katrina

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Blizzard Winter in Chicago has never been easy, but this one was a record-setter.

in buses. About 50,000 abandoned cars and 800 Chicago Transit Authority buses littered the streets and expressways.Most all people wanted to do was get home. One woman who worked At 5:02 a.m. on January 26, 1967, it began to snow. Nothing remarkable about that. It downtown and lived on the city's North Side-normally a 35-minute commute--spent four was January in Chicago, and, besides, 4 hours making the trip. inches of snow had been predicted. But Still, it was great to be a child during the it kept snowing, all through this Blizzard of '67. There were mountains of miserable Thursday and into early w!! o n snow to play in, and plenty of time to S of Friday morning, until it finally stopped Lots play in them: Schools were closed for at 10:10 a.m. By the end, 23 inches several days. covered Chicago and the suburbs, the largest single snowfall in the city's history.

Thousands were stranded in offices, in schools,

William Bosgraaf

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Monsoons

the southern hemisphere to replace it. As it moves, it carries moisture Monsoons are an with it, releasing it over land as the annually recurring weather summer monsoon (also known as phenomenon, triggered by the southwest monsoon). The cycle earth’s tilt in relation to the sun. continues as the cooling air creates Although they return every year, it precipitation and releases more is still impossible to tell the timing, energy. This energy then heats the duration, and quantity of rain each air, which rises and flows back to season, a fact that leaves impacted the sea, cools, descends, and rushes areas without accurate storm back to land to replace more warm, information. Monsoons are set by rising air. This monsoon is centered land and sea temperature over continental Asia. differences. Land reflects the sun’s There is also a winter rays, heating air over land more monsoon (also known as northeast rapidly. Water is able to absorb a lot monsoon), created during the of heat without itself changing winter when most of the sun’s rays temperature much, so air over water shine on the southern hemisphere. stays relatively cooler.

During this season, the continents This fact is prevalent in are cooler than the water, which Asia because the northern retains absorbed heat. The air hemisphere has so much more land reverses circulation, with warm air than the southern hemisphere, rising over the oceans and cooler which is mostly ocean. During he land air, called “cold surges,” summer, the earth is tilted at such rushing in to replace it. The cold an angle that the sun’s rays shine surges pick up warm moisture as it more directly on the northern travels across tropical waters only hemisphere. The heat is absorbed to release them over Indonesia, by the land masses, warming the air northern Australia, Sri Lanka, and above it. The hot air rises, and the east Indian coast. cooler ocean air rushes inland from William Bosgraaf

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