1945 Natural Disasters - 1945 Atlantic Hurricane Season, 1945 Pacific Typhoon Season, 1945 Earthquakes, 1940-49 Pacific Typhoon Seasons (Paperback)


Chapters: 1945 Atlantic Hurricane Season, 1945 Pacific Typhoon Season, 1945 Earthquakes, 1940-49 Pacific Typhoon Seasons, 1945 Southeast Florida Hurricane, 1945 Mikawa Earthquake, 1945 Balochistan Earthquake. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The decade of the 1940s featured the 194049 Pacific typhoon seasons. The seasons had no official bounds, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1940-1949 Pacific hurricane seasons. Tropical storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names. In Guam, a November typhoon caused great damage. It was the strongest typhoon to hit Guam since 1918. In August, a major typhoon brought a great amount of damage to Guam. Typhoon Juliet formed and existed. Nine tropical storms are reported in August. No storms were reported this season. Typhoon Cobra was first spotted on December 17, in the Philippine Sea. It sank three US destroyers, killing at least 790 people, before dissipating the next day. Maximum sustained winds were estimated at 145 MPH whic...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=400491

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Chapters: 1945 Atlantic Hurricane Season, 1945 Pacific Typhoon Season, 1945 Earthquakes, 1940-49 Pacific Typhoon Seasons, 1945 Southeast Florida Hurricane, 1945 Mikawa Earthquake, 1945 Balochistan Earthquake. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The decade of the 1940s featured the 194049 Pacific typhoon seasons. The seasons had no official bounds, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1940-1949 Pacific hurricane seasons. Tropical storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names. In Guam, a November typhoon caused great damage. It was the strongest typhoon to hit Guam since 1918. In August, a major typhoon brought a great amount of damage to Guam. Typhoon Juliet formed and existed. Nine tropical storms are reported in August. No storms were reported this season. Typhoon Cobra was first spotted on December 17, in the Philippine Sea. It sank three US destroyers, killing at least 790 people, before dissipating the next day. Maximum sustained winds were estimated at 145 MPH whic...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=400491

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