Augan – Data contracts appear as one of the most preoccupied months for the Atlantic Hurricane season. Its average is about four storms of its name, and it usually becomes hurricanes, August is the second most active month from the season (second to September).
The environment needed for tropical development becomes more convenient in August, especially with regard to warmer sea surface temperatures. There is also a slight decrease in wind cutting, or unfavorable winds at the upper levels of the atmosphere that usually acts against orbital formation.
The first week of August produced one storm, Dxter tropical storm. This system is unlikely to affect the ground or reach the state of the hurricane.
If we look back, some notorious hurricanes have evolved in August, including Harvey, Katrina and Andrew.
Below is a summary summary of each.
Hurricane Harvey (2017)
Hurricane Harvey achieved landing on August 25, 2017, in the coastal curve in Texas (reached the strength of the tropical storm on August 17). I quickly intensified into a 4 -category storm before approaching the coast, and slowly slowed up to 5 miles. The movement of the storm near the zero to the front brought significant damage with the peak of the storm increase more than 12 feet and about 60 inches of rain in parts of southeast Texas.
The storm is estimated at a cost of $ 158.8 billion of damage. More than 30,000 people were displaced, 17,000 rescue operations were performed, and more than 200,000 homes and companies were destroyed or destroyed. Unfortunately, Harvey also had 89 deaths.
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Hurricane Katrina (2005)
What will become the most hurricane in the history of the United States, Hurricane Katrina, fell near New Orleans, Louisiana, as a 3 -category of 5 category of 5 category. Unfortunately, she claimed the lives of more than 1,800 people and were displaced near a million residents of the Gulf Coast. Rain is estimated at 5 and 10 inches, and isolated groups closer to 12. The dams aimed at curbing the ocean and protecting the break of New Orleans, leaving about 80 % of the city under the water.
Storms of up to 14 feet were estimated in parts of the coastal Al and are likely to approach 20 feet along the Mississippi state in Alabama. The maximum of sustainable winds on land near Grand IL, Los Angeles, was about 125 miles per hour.
Hurricane Andrew (1992)
Hurricane Andrew was only one of four category storms only to make land in the United States, the storm came to the beach in South Florida with the utmost sustainable wind 165 miles per hour. An estimated 49,000 homes were destroyed and another 108,000 were attached. The storm led to 15 direct deaths and 28 indirect deaths.
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