1955 Meteorology - 1955 Atlantic Hurricane Season, 1955 Pacific Typhoon Season, Tornadoes of 1955, 1950-56 Pacific Typhoon Seasons (Paperback)

Chapters: 1955 Atlantic Hurricane Season, 1955 Pacific Typhoon Season, Tornadoes of 1955, 1950-56 Pacific Typhoon Seasons, 1955 Great Plains Tornado Outbreak, Hurricane Alice, Hurricane Ione, Hurricane Janet, Hurricane Diane, Hurricane Connie, Hurricane Hilda. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. 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 1950s featured the 195059 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 1950-1959 Pacific hurricane seasons. Tropical storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the North Pacific Typhoon Warning Service, Fleet Weather Center, or 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. Season summary Typhoon Jane struck the island of Shikoku in Japan on the 3rd of September. Resulting flooding and landslides killed 539 people. Typhoon Fran was a late season storm that struck the northern Philippines killing 5 people. The names Helene, Jane, Kezia, Lucretia, Missatha, Ossia, and Petie were retired after this year and replaced with Helen, June, Kathy, Lorna, Marie, Ol...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1778121