My OperaLook out an Atlantic hurricane!
By zrafatdjmd1. Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:55:33 AM
The word hurricane, used in the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, is derived from huracán, the Spanish word for the Carib/Taino storm god, Juracán. This god is believed by scholars to have been at least partially derived from the Mayan creator god, Huracan.
Huracan was believed by the Maya to have created dry land out of the turbulent waters.
The god was also credited with later destroying the "wooden people", the precursors to the "maize people", with an immense storm and flood. Huracan is also the source of the word orcan, another word for a particularly strong European windstorm.
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone, occurring in the North Atlantic Ocean or the Northeast Pacific Ocean, east of the International Dateline. A wind of force 12 on the Beaufort scale, above 118 km/h, is also referred to as a hurricane irrespective of its origin or location.
All tropical cyclones are areas of low pressure in the Earth's atmosphere.
Surface pressure forecast
Valid 0000 UTC Sun 19 May 2013
Forecast Chart (T+12)
Valid 1200 UTC Sun 19 May 2013
Foggy in Stoke.
China sea... Maybe a storm off Mexico will fill the bill?
References:
• Tropical cyclone
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone
• Hurricane (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_%28disambiguation%29
• Surface pressure forecast for Sun 19 May 2013
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/surface_pressure.html
Huracan was believed by the Maya to have created dry land out of the turbulent waters.
The god was also credited with later destroying the "wooden people", the precursors to the "maize people", with an immense storm and flood. Huracan is also the source of the word orcan, another word for a particularly strong European windstorm.
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone, occurring in the North Atlantic Ocean or the Northeast Pacific Ocean, east of the International Dateline. A wind of force 12 on the Beaufort scale, above 118 km/h, is also referred to as a hurricane irrespective of its origin or location.
All tropical cyclones are areas of low pressure in the Earth's atmosphere.
Surface pressure forecast
Valid 0000 UTC Sun 19 May 2013
Forecast Chart (T+12)
Valid 1200 UTC Sun 19 May 2013
Foggy in Stoke.
China sea... Maybe a storm off Mexico will fill the bill?
References:
• Tropical cyclone
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone
• Hurricane (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_%28disambiguation%29
• Surface pressure forecast for Sun 19 May 2013
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/surface_pressure.html
