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Famous Scientist
A famous scientist in meteorology is Joseph Henry. Some people called him “the father of weather forecasting”. He was born on December 17, 1997. He was born in Albany, New York. He was born to parents who were immigrants William and Ann Henry.
He lived with his grandmother back and forth from Albany, New York with his parents and going to spend time with her in Galway, NY. He was becoming a professor at Albany Academy. At thirteen he became a watchmaker. Eventually he died on May 13 1878. |
Career
A career in meteorology is a severe weather meteorologist. It is also called an SWM. a SWM is a professional who sends out warnings for tornadoes by looking at data from satellites, radars and weather models. They get paid 74,000 dollars to 90,000 dollars per year.
Some travel to other places for their job to study if they don't live where there are a lot of tornadoes. Almost 95% of people that become severe weather meteorologists went to college. If you wanted to be a SWM you could work at the national severe storms laboratory in Oklahoma. |
Concept & Application
Tornadoes develop in severe storms. A heated layer of air that is layered by cooler drier air, that creates a gust of air that rises rapidly. Each year about 1,200 tornadoes form in the United States of America. There are a lot of different types of tornadoes. Most of the tornadoes that form, form from supercell thunderstorms. You can recognize supercell thunderstorms by their sharp shaped cumulonimbus. They typically have a strong updraft that reaches a speed of about 100 MPH. From 1993 to 2022, an average of 71 people were killed every year by tornadoes.
We study tornadoes because they are one of the most dangerous phenomenons on earth with the potential to cause a lot of damage and the loss of lives. They can be two miles wide and maybe even more. They also can go for hundreds of miles before fading. They often have wind speeds around two hundred miles per hour or more, depending on the size of the tornado. The U.S. has more tornados than any other country in the entire world. We also study them so that scientists can get the data, and the aim of studying them is to improve forecasts. By studying tornados scientists can develop that can predict tornadoes better than the ones we currently have. If they get enough data they can develop better ways to track intensity and behavior helping us save lives and lots of damage.
The spring of 2011 was the most deadly and destructive tornado season of the past hundred years. Between the months of April and June 2011, tornadoes killed over 500 people. That season alone cost at least twenty one million dollars in damage to homes and peoples work places and took the lives of loved ones across the country and left families devastated.
The NWS rates the tornadoes using the enhanced fujita scale (the EF scale) based on wind speeds and damage. We went from using the F scale to using the EF scale in 2007.
We study tornadoes because they are one of the most dangerous phenomenons on earth with the potential to cause a lot of damage and the loss of lives. They can be two miles wide and maybe even more. They also can go for hundreds of miles before fading. They often have wind speeds around two hundred miles per hour or more, depending on the size of the tornado. The U.S. has more tornados than any other country in the entire world. We also study them so that scientists can get the data, and the aim of studying them is to improve forecasts. By studying tornados scientists can develop that can predict tornadoes better than the ones we currently have. If they get enough data they can develop better ways to track intensity and behavior helping us save lives and lots of damage.
The spring of 2011 was the most deadly and destructive tornado season of the past hundred years. Between the months of April and June 2011, tornadoes killed over 500 people. That season alone cost at least twenty one million dollars in damage to homes and peoples work places and took the lives of loved ones across the country and left families devastated.
The NWS rates the tornadoes using the enhanced fujita scale (the EF scale) based on wind speeds and damage. We went from using the F scale to using the EF scale in 2007.
