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They are temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, humidity, precipitation, and cloudiness. Together, these components describe the weather at any given time.
Air temperature, air pressure, and precipitation.
Topography, Climate, and Water.
There are many elements that make up both the weather and the climate of a geographical location. The most significant of these elements are temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, solar irradiance, humidity, precipitation, condensation and topography.
The heat from the flame vaporizes the fuel which then mixes with the oxidizer and burns. For some fuels if the temperature is low enough, not enough will vaporize to sustain the fire and it will go out. This is why you see firefighters up on roof during a housefire sometimes.
High winds, hail, excessive precipitation, and wildfires are forms and effects of severe weather, as are thunderstorms, downbursts, tornadoes, waterspouts, tropical cyclones, and extratropical cyclones. Regional and seasonal severe weather phenomena include blizzards (snowstorms), ice storms, and duststorms.
A portmanteau of Mediterranean hurricanes, medicanes are among the rarest weather phenomenon. These rare cyclones form when a non-tropical storm comes into contact with the warmer temperatures over the Mediterranean.
In terms of immediate danger, destruction, and threat to lives, tornadoes are considered the most deadly weather phenomena. In terms of total fatalities measured over time, drought and flooding are by far the most deadly and devastating.
Heat
In a new study that surprised weather specialists, it was discovered that between 1970 and 1999, inland flooding has claimed far more lives than storm surge, strong winds or tornadoes in the continental United States.
Human activity is causing rapid changes to our global climate that are contributing to extreme weather conditions. When fossil fuels are burned for electricity, heat, and transportation, carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps solar radiation, is released into our atmosphere.
Answer: The danger of the possibility of a tornado arises when hail diminishes or stops entirely.
Hail, like rain, or other forms of natural precipitation, is just water, only that it is frozen during its path up and down in between gravity and up-draft before landing. So hail, yes we can eat hail just like we can eat ice (pun intended)! Most of our Global drinking water is indeed collected from precipitation.
Hail is both a noun and a verb, but the verb’s most frequent meanings come from a different root, the old noun ‘hail’ meaning ‘health’. Hailstones are small balls of ice that form within cumulonimbus clouds during thunderstorms.
The record for the largest hailstone in the US belongs to an 8-inch wonder that fell near Vivian, South Dakota, in 2010, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was the size of a volleyball and weighed just under 2 pounds.
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Although Florida has the most thunderstorms, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming usually have the most hailstorms. The area where these three states meet – “hail alley” – averages seven to nine hail days per year. Other parts of the world that have damaging hailstorms include China, Russia, India and northern Italy.
The costliest hailstorm in US history struck the I-70 corridor of eastern Kansas, across Missouri, into southwestern Illinois producing many baseball-sized hail reports. The largest hailstone on record at the time fell on this date. It had a 7-inch (178 mm) diameter and a circumference of 18.74 inches (476 mm).
Top 5 Cities for Hail Claims (54,153); Denver, Colo. (51,887); Colorado Springs, Colo. (38,044); McKinney, Texas (34,134); and Dallas, Texas (25,262).
Hail Accumulations Hail accumulated to over 12” deep on level in El Dorado, Kansas on June 23, 1951 (and just recently at Santa Rosa, New Mexico as noted at the beginning of the blog) and a storm at Seldon, in northwest Kansas, left an 18”-deep accumulation of hail over a 54 square mile area on June 3, 1959.
The top city for claims was Omaha, Nebraska and Denver, Colorado was second, when looking at all three years of data. Texas is a large state that sees lots of hailstorms….Hail Damage Claims by State, According to the NICB Analysis of ISO Claims:
State | Iowa |
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2017 | 67,731 |
2018 | 25,664 |
2019 | 19,744 |
Total | 113,139 |
Hail Alley is a region in North America that extends through south and central Alberta, Canada, and into Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, reaching all the way to Oklahoma and Texas in the United States.
What size hail causes roof damage? On average, it takes a 1″ or above diameter hail stone to cause damage to common asphalt shingles.
This region, known as hail alley, lies predominantly within the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. While their domain of greatest frequency is in the plains states, hailstorms have been observed just about everywhere thunderstorms occur.